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HATER Lab

Hate, Aggression, Terror, and Extremism Research

The University of Utah Hate, Aggression, Terror, and Extremism Research (HATER) Lab is composed of faculty and students with research interests in all aspects of bias and conflict. We apply qualitative and quantitative research methods to problems including hate crimes and organized hate, social issues and inequalities, radicalization processes, and political violence.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Attention: HATER Lab
Department of Geography
University of Utah 
260 S Central Campus Dr Rm 4625
Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Email: richard.medina@geog.utah.edu

 

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People

Richard Medina

Simon Brewer

Andrew Linke

Emily Nicolosi

Marco Allain (PhD) - Urban inequities and conspiracy theory

Asmita Bhattarai (PhD) - Big Data and Hazards

Brenna Kelly (MS)

Makaio Kimbrough (PhD)

Taylor Lundquist (MS)

Serena Madsen (MS) - Extremism and Gender

Talula Pontuti (MS)

Matt Shawcroft (MS)

Laila Sheikh (MS)

Doug Tharp (PhD) - Spatial statistics, demography, and suicide

Research Papers

Recent Publications

Hohl, A., Choi, M., Medina, R., Wan, N., and Wen, M. (In Review) Understanding Adverse Population Sentiment Towards the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States. medRxiv. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.15.21260543v1.
 
Brewer, S., Linke, A., Medina, R., Nicolosi, E., and Tharp, D. (In Review) The Sociospatial Ecology of Deaths During Police Interactions in the United States, 2016-2020. Political Geography.
 
Hohl, A., Choi, M., Yellowhorse, A. J., Medina, R. M., Wan, N., and Wen, M. (In Revision) Spatializing Anti-Asian Hate on Twitter during the COVID-19 Pandemic, November 2019 to May 2020. American Journal of Public Health.
 
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E. A., Riley, C., and McNeally, P. (2021) Reflections on Responses to Geographical Research on Hate in the United States. Public Understanding of Science 30(6): 797-806.
 
Nicolosi, E. A., Medina, R. M., Riley, C., and McNeally, P. (2020) Crowdsourcing Sensitive VGI: Constructing the Hate Incident Reporting System. Digital Geography and Society. 1:100003.
 
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E. A., Brewer, S., and Moore, E. A. (2021) Geographical Analysis of Socioeconomic and Ideological Drivers of Hate Crime in the United States. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 12(2): 39-56.
 
Medina, R. M., Byrne, K., Brewer, S., and Nicolosi, E. (2020) Housing Inequalities: Eviction Patterns in Salt Lake County, Utah. Cities 104(102804).
 
Linke, A. M. (2020) Post-Election Violence in Kenya: Leadership Legacies, Demography and Motivations. Territory, Politics, Governance. (Early Online Publication) DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2020.1757503.
 
Fuhriman, C. and Medina, R. M. (2020) Introducing a Dataset of Multi-Scale Geographies of ISIS Ideology from ISIS Sources. Terrorism and Political Violence. DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2020.1742707.
 
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E., Brewer, S, and Linke, A. (2018) Geographies of Organized Hate in America: A Regional Analysis. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(4):1006-1021.
 
AM Linke, A. M., Witmer, F. D. W., O'Loughlin, J., McCabe, J. T., Tir, J. (2018) The consequences of relocating in response to drought: Human mobility and conflict in contemporary Kenya. Environmental Research Letters 13(9): 094014.
 
Pulver, A. and Medina, R. M. (2018) A Review of Security and Privacy Concerns in Digital Intelligence Collection. Intelligence and National Security 33(2):241-256.
 
Linke, A. M., Witmer, F. D. W., O’Loughlin, J., McCabe, J. T., Tir, J. (2018) Drought, local institutional contexts, and support for violence in Kenya. Journal of Conflict Resolution 62(7): 1544-1578.
 
Linke, A., Witmer, F. D. W., Holland, E. C., and O'Loughlin, J. (2017) Mountainous Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet Caucasus. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 107(2): 520-535.
 
Fuhriman, C., Medina, R. M., and Brewer, S. (2017) A Point Process Analysis of Terror Attacks in Afghanistan, 2002-2013. Middle States Geographer 50:50-63.
Last Updated: 11/3/21