Dr. Christine M. SarteschiDr. Christine M. Sarteschi, LCSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Criminology and is a fully licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). She researches and teaches courses in behavioral science that cover a wide range of topics including human behavior, juvenile justice, mental illness and crime, cold case research, problem solving courts, mass murder, psychopathy, conspiracy theories, and extreme violent crime. She is certified to administer the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R and the PCL: SV).
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Dr. Sarteschi has an extensive publishing record spanning both scholarly academic papers and those written more broadly for the public. She has published over 30 empirical articles, and two detailed research monographs for SpringerBriefs Psychology, one called “Mass and Serial Murder in America” and the other entitled “Sovereign Citizens: A Psychological and Criminological Analysis.”
She also has written articles published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Just Security, Salon, New York Daily News, MedPage Today, New York Law Journal, The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, The Conversation, Homeland Security Today, and Texas Lawyer. Dr. Sarteschi’s work has been featured in a number of national and international news outlets and she has been quoted in The Associated Press, New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Daily Beast, The IndyStar, The Illinois Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Boston Globe, Vice, among others.
She is currently supervising the Cold Case Club at Chatham University. The club started in 2015 and investigates unsolved murder and missing person cases. Our group of students have investigated a number of cases including Wendy Welborn, a 1980 unsolved murder in Tennessee, the Lisa Pruett case from Ohio, the Tammy Fergusion from North Carolina, the serial killer case of Ivan Milat from Australia, the Stephanie Coyle case, the Colonial Parkway Murders, and the unsolved murders of Tammy Lindley and Tarshia McDowell. The skills students develop as part of their work with the Cold Case Club can and have helped them secure employment after their graduation.
She also has written articles published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Just Security, Salon, New York Daily News, MedPage Today, New York Law Journal, The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, The Conversation, Homeland Security Today, and Texas Lawyer. Dr. Sarteschi’s work has been featured in a number of national and international news outlets and she has been quoted in The Associated Press, New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Daily Beast, The IndyStar, The Illinois Times, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Boston Globe, Vice, among others.
She is currently supervising the Cold Case Club at Chatham University. The club started in 2015 and investigates unsolved murder and missing person cases. Our group of students have investigated a number of cases including Wendy Welborn, a 1980 unsolved murder in Tennessee, the Lisa Pruett case from Ohio, the Tammy Fergusion from North Carolina, the serial killer case of Ivan Milat from Australia, the Stephanie Coyle case, the Colonial Parkway Murders, and the unsolved murders of Tammy Lindley and Tarshia McDowell. The skills students develop as part of their work with the Cold Case Club can and have helped them secure employment after their graduation.