Ryan Scrivens is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). He is also an Associate Director at the International CyberCrime Research Centre (ICCRC) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada and a Research Fellow at the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence in Ireland. He is the recipient of the 2022 Early Career Impact Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Terrorism and Bias Crimes. Scrivens conducts problem-oriented interdisciplinary research with a focus on terrorists’ and extremists' use of the Internet, right-wing terrorism and extremism, and hate crime. Many of his research projects are derived from his engagements with front-line practitioners in law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as well as in social media and tech companies. Here he employs advanced quantitative methods and machine learning tools to better understand right-wing extremists’ use of the Internet. He complements this approach by also conducting in-depth interviews with current and former violent extremists, as well as law enforcement and community activists. As a result, he has become a leading international expert on right-wing terrorism and extremism, known among his peers for conducting innovate empirical research. Scrivens has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, and policy notes. His work appears in Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, New Media & Society, Social Media + Society, Crime and Delinquency, and Criminal Justice Policy Review, among many others. He is also co-editor of Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States (Palgrave, 2022) and Former Extremists: Preventing and Countering Violence (Oxford University Press, 2024). He has presented his findings before practitioners and policymakers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the Swedish Defence Research Agency, the United Nations, and the European Commission, among many others. His research has been funded by Public Safety Canada, the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society, and VOX-Pol. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Terrorism and Political Violence and Perspectives on Terrorism.
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology), Simon Fraser University (2013-2017)
Research Areas:
Terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet
Right-wing terrorism and extremism
Combating violent extremism
Hate crime
Research methods and methodology
Computational social science
Professional and Academic Profiles:
MSU School of Criminal Justice page
ICCRC page
Google Scholar page
ResearchGate page
LinkedIn page
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy (Criminology), Simon Fraser University (2013-2017)
Research Areas:
Terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet
Right-wing terrorism and extremism
Combating violent extremism
Hate crime
Research methods and methodology
Computational social science
Professional and Academic Profiles:
MSU School of Criminal Justice page
ICCRC page
Google Scholar page
ResearchGate page
LinkedIn page
