Dr. Sherah L. Basham is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies Department at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She received a BS from Pensacola Christian College (2000), an MSA from the University of West Florida (2008), and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Walden University (2019). She has over 20 years of practitioner and academic experience in the criminal justice field in administration, investigations, campus security, and higher education. Her primary teaching interests are in the area of Policing and Administration. She has also taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Policing, Research Methods, Race and Crime, Criminology, Security, Policy, and Criminal Investigations, among others. Her research interests include policing, campus law enforcement, emergency preparedness, and community policing. She is a member of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing and was selected to participate in ASEBP's NIJ-funded Applied Criminology and Data Management Course (AC/DC). More recently, she was selected for the 2022–2023 College of Arts & Sciences Early Career Researcher Award at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and the 2023 American Society of Criminology Division of Policing, Teaching & Mentorship Award.