Nik Roberts

Dr. Nik Roberts brings 15 years of experience in college teaching to Walden's graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Public Policy & Administration. His interests include corrections education, criminological/social theory, prisonization, militarism, and digital forensics. At Walden, he primarily serves as a qualitative research methodologist for Ph.D. candidates using phenomenology, narrative inquiry, thematic analysis, oral history, or grounded theory in their dissertations. Honorably discharged from the Army National Guard, Dr. Roberts previously worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections and the U.S. Library of Congress' Teaching with Primary Sources program. A recently certified digital forensics investigator, Dr. Roberts earned his Ph.D. (Human/Social Science) from Saybrook University, his M.A. (Criminology) from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and his M.S. (Law and Public Policy) from California University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA and spends his spare time collecting vinyl records and playing guitar.