Glenn Sterner
CJRC - Abington - Faculty Lead, Alumni
Biography:
Dr. Glenn Sterner, was the CJRC-Abington Faculty Lead and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Abington. Glenn first joined the CJRC in 2015 as a Post-Doctoral Scholar, after having completed his Ph.D. in Rural Sociology at Penn State. In 2018, Glenn moved on to Penn State Abington to become an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. Glenn developed an impressive research agenda focused largely on the opioid crisis and on policy and programming around that. During his seven years at Abington and his three as Post-Doctoral Scholar with the CJRC, Glenn developed a research portfolio that encompassed over 20 funded projects (half of them as PI) for a total of over $5 million in funding, resulting in over two dozen articles, book chapters and special reports. Glenn’s projects have focused heavily on improving the understanding of opioid and related addictions issues on various communities in Pennsylvania. His work has been supported extensively by various agencies within Pennsylvania state government, for projects such as the ongoing PA Assessment of Interactive Gaming and the evaluation of the impacts of the 2022 opioid settlement funding in Pennsylvania.
Glenn has taken a position as Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky.