Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Tenure-Track – August 2024 – Current – Criminal Justice Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, New York, United States.Selected Courses Taught:Violence Across the Globe, Introduction to Law & Society, Crime Prevention, Homeland Security
Senior Lecturer – July 2022 – July 2024 – Leiden University College, The Hague – The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University Law School, Netherlands. Selected Courses Taught: Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies, Global Peace and Justice, Counter-terrorism Governance
Senior Consultant at the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism – October 2022 – March 2023, United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism Madrid Office
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Field Officer – March 2021 – July 2022, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Division of Operations, Posted in Tunis, Tunisia
Strategic Advisor to the National Security Program – April 2019 – March 2021, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, National Security Program, C Division, Montreal
Coordinator of the National Security Intervention & Prevention Program – February 2017 – Avril 2019, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, National Security Program, C Division, Montreal
Counterterrorism Researcher & Community Coordinator – Sept 2015/Feb 2017, Center for the prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence (CPRLV), Montreal.
Publications & Books
- Rebbani, M. (in press, 2026). Counter-extremism and high policing in Canada: Improvising security. Routledge.
- Rebbani, M. (in preparation). Studying up in security fields: Reflexivity and polymorphous ethnography in sensitive contexts. Palgrave Macmillan.
Invited Talks, Panels & Conferences
- Forthcoming: Speaker, 25th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (EUROCRIM), “Deep Hanging Out: A Call for Ethnographies of National Security,” September 2025, Athens, Greece
- Invited Expert: ‘Law Enforcement and Civil Society cooperation on CVE (Countering Violent Extremism)’, CIVIPOL, February 2024, Almaty, Kyrgyzstan
- Invited Expert: ‘Regional Workshop Law Enforcement & Civil Society To Counter Violent Extremism, Lessons Learned Protecting Children and Engaging Women’, CIVIPOL, November 2023, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- Speaker: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting presentation titled ‘Countering Violent Extremism: Towards a Hybridization of National Security Practices’, November 2023, Philadelphia, USA
- Speaker: Pan-European Conference on International Relations presentation titled ‘Countering Violent Extremism & Neoliberalism: the Quebec Experience’, September 2023, Potsdam, Germany
- Speaker: European Workshops in International Studies: Tales from the field: Unraveling Canadian CVE Practices, July 2023, in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Speaker: American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting presentation titled Canadian CVE: What Impact on Counterterrorism, November 2022, Atlanta, USA
- Speaker: Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, security and society (TSAS), Annual meeting, October 2022, Ottawa, Canada
- Additional Presentations (2015-2025): Delivered over 50 invited talks, workshops, and practitioner trainings on prison reform, threat assessment, crisis management, and counterterrorism for government agencies and civil society organizations.
HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS
- CUNY Book Completion Award, Office of Research, City University of New York, May 2025. Awarded for Improvising Security: Counter-Extremism and High Policing in Canada (under contract with Routledge)
- Exceptional Dissertation Distinction, University of Montreal (2024)– PhD thesis nominated for university-wide “best dissertation” award and placed on Rector’s Honor List.
- Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security ad Society, Annual Gala Fellowship, October 2022
- Women in International Security (WIIS), 2020 Emerging Though Leader Award, March 2020
- Merit Scholarship, J. A. Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRCC, Concordia University, May 2013 – May 2014
- Multiple merit scholarships from Concordia University and the University of Montreal (2011–2015), including the Middle Eastern Christian Traditions Award and Campaign for a New Millennium Award.
EDUCATION
PhD in Criminology, University of Montreal 2024, – Awarded with distinction (Thèse exceptionnelle) – Thesis ‘Improvising Quebec’s Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Sector or the Transformation of High Policing’ Research interests: critical security studies, ethnographies of governance, global CVE policy, New Public Management, and law enforcement institutions.
Master in Social Anthropology, Concordia University 2014 Thesis: “The Pursuit of Hegemony: School Shootings as Cultural Scripts” Research theme: criminalization, media, representation of violence & gender.
BA Honors in Social Anthropology, Concordia University 2012, Thesis: “Hijabulous: The Inner Workings of Islamic Fashion” Research theme: women in religious movements, gender in Islam, immigration, representation of veiling in media.
Meriem Rebbani, PhD 