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Portrait of Dr. Lucia Summers Rodriguez

Dr. Lucia Summers Rodriguez

  • Professor at School of Criminal Justice & Criminology, College of Applied Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, Academic Computing Committee. September 2025 - Present.
  • Alternate Member, CoAA Tenure and Promotion Review Group. September 2025 - Present.
  • Speaker, Hays County Sheriff’s Office Cadet Graduation. September 20, 2024 - Present.
  • Assisting with establishing international initiatives, TXST GLOBAL International Initiatives. December 2023 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Papers in Applied Geography. 2022 - Present.
  • Member, MSCJ Steering Committee. June 2022 - Present.
  • Member, Texas State Center for Analytics and Data Science (TXST CADS). June 2022 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Human Trafficking. 2021 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2021 - Present.
  • Mentor, International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA). November 2021 - Present.
  • Volunteer, Austin Police Department. August 2021 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Justice Quarterly. June 2020 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Crime & Delinquency. January 2020 - Present.
  • Member, Personnel Committee. September 2019 - Present.
  • Member, Grupo de Criminología Cuantitativa, Sociedad Española de Investigación Criminológica. August 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica. July 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Environment & Behavior. April 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Quality & Quantity. April 2019 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, PLOS ONE. October 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Applied Statistics. September 2018 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Applied Geography. November 2016 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Policing: A journal of policy and practice. November 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, International Criminal Justice Review. September 2015 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Quantitative Criminology. December 2014 - Present.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Criminologia Ambiental en Español research network. November 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Crime Science. June 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Interpersonal Violence. May 2014 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. January 2013 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, British Journal of Sociology. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Legal and Criminological Psychology. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Security Journal. 2010 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Revista de Derecho Penal y Criminología. 2010 - Present.

2025

  • Member, San Marcos Police Department Violent Crime Reduction Committee. March 2024 - 2025.
  • Member, Annual Evaluation PC Sub-Committee. January 2024 - August 2025.
  • Chair, Search Committee for Two Assistant Professors. June 2024 - January 2025.

2023

  • Member, Search Committee for Program Manager position at the Center for Analytics and Data Science (CADS). November 2023 - December 2023.
  • Organizer, Teacher Victimization Survey with Dr. Byongook Moon (UTSA). October 18, 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Institute of Justice. June 2023 - July 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Institute of Justice. May 2023 - June 2023.

2022

  • Member, SCJC Marketing Committee. March 2020 - December 2022.
  • Member, Search Committee for School Director position. June 2022 - November 2022.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, International Criminal Justice Review. July 2015 - September 2022.
  • Member, Curriculum Committee. August 2019 - May 2022.
  • Member, Graduate Council. June 2019 - May 2022.
  • Chair, MSCJ Steering Committee. June 2019 - May 2022.
  • Assisting with organization of event, Annual Crisis Negotiation Competition and Seminar. January 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2021.
  • Editor, Revista Española de Investigación Criminológica. November 2020 - December 2021.
  • Member, PhD program qualifying exam committee. January 2016 - June 2021.
  • Assisting with organization of event, Annual Crisis Negotiation Competition and Seminar. January 2021.

2020

  • Member, Doctoral Program Executive Committee. 2016 - 2020.
  • Assisting with organization of event, Annual Crisis Negotiation Competition and Seminar. January 2020.

2019

  • Organizer, “CJ Student Research” TRACS project site. February 2017 - 2019.
  • Organizer, “CJ Teaching Resource” TRACS project site. November 2012 - 2019.
  • Graduate marshall, Commencement ceremony Fall 2019. December 2019.
  • Judge at poster session, Graduate College International Research Conference. November 2019.
  • Undergraduate marshal, Commencement ceremony Summer 2019. August 2019.
  • Faculty advisor, Student organization NAMI Cats. January 2013 - August 2019.
  • Member, MSCJ Steering Committee. August 2018 - June 2019.

2018

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Organizing committee for the 2018 Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (ECCA) symposium, to be held on June 5-7. January 2018 - June 2018.
  • Organizer, Common Experience 2017/18. September 2017 - May 2018.
  • Board Member, Corrective Education Company. December 2015 - May 2018.

2017

  • Consultant for prisoner studies, Texas State University’s IRB. October 2014 - September 2017.
  • Member, PhD research methods comprehensive exam committee. January 2014 - March 2017.

2016

  • Graduate marshal, Spring 2016 commencement ceremony. May 2016.
  • Non-tenured representative, School’s Personnel Committee. September 2015 - February 2016.

2015

  • Member, Search committee for two positions at the assistant/associate professor level. June 2015 - December 2015.
  • Undergraduate marshal, Spring 2015 commencement ceremony. May 2015.
  • Member, BSc program curriculum review committee. September 2014 - May 2015.
  • Organizer, School's Brown Bag Seminar program. October 2013 - May 2015.
  • PhD program admissions committee. September 2013 - May 2015.

2014

  • Undergraduate marshal, Spring 2014 commencement ceremony. May 2014.
  • Participant, Five-year review of PhD program. September 2013 - May 2014.
  • Member, Organizing Committee of 2013-14 Common Experience program, “Minds Matter: An exploration of mental health and illness”. January 2013 - May 2014.
  • Brown Bag Seminar speaker, “Presenting data and information: An abridged version of Edward Tufte’s one-day course” by Dr. Lucia Summers, Assistant Professor. April 16, 2014.
  • Speaker, Thinking of doing a PhD in CJ? March 18, 2014.

2013

  • Undergraduate marshal, Fall 2013 commencement ceremony. December 2013.

2011

  • Geographic profiling report submitted to the Spanish National Police, in relation to a serial residential burglary case in Zaragoza (Spain). November 2011.

2010

  • Member, London Metropolitan Police Forest Gate North Safer Neighbourhoods Ward Panel. September 2007 - March 2010.

2008

  • Member, School’s Learning and Teaching Committee. January 2006 - July 2008.

2007

  • Book reviews editor, Psychology Teaching Review. March 2006 - May 2007.