Matt Hickman, Ph.D.

Matt Hickman CV (PDF)

Matt Hickman is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics at Seattle University. In addition to conducting research in the general areas of police integrity and ethics, forensic evidence processing, and quantitative research methods, he teaches a variety of both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses including statistics, research methods, criminology, forensic science, ethics, and crime mapping.

Prior to joining the faculty at Seattle University in 2007, he was employed as a statistician at the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, for seven years. There, he specialized in the development and analysis of national data collections relating to law enforcement operations as well as forensic crime laboratories and medicolegal death investigation systems in the United States.

Hickman is a past President of the Western Society of Criminology, and he served as Executive Counselor on the inaugural board of the American Society of Criminology Division of Policing. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, Western Society of Criminology, and the International Association of Crime Analysts.