Penny Geyer is a doctoral lecturer in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration. She earned her doctoral degree from the University of New Haven. Her dissertation and research while earning her degree focused on the evaluation of the panoptic deterrent effect of SkyWatch surveillance towers. She previously earned double master’s degrees from the University of New Haven, one in Forensic Science Investigative Services, and the other in Computer Forensic Investigation. She is a board-certified medicolegal death investigator and spent over a decade working for the State of Connecticut Medical Examiner’s Office.

Additionally, she was an adjunct professor at the University of Hartford for 11 years where she taught courses in forensic science, as well developing a special topic curriculum focused on criminal behavior. She also has been a guest lecturer and presenter at numerous first responder trainings around Connecticut. She has been nominated twice for an excellence in teaching by part-time faculty at the University of New Haven and won the University of New Haven Lee College Ph.D. Student Excellence Award. She was also a Top 5 Presentation winner at the University of New Haven Graduate Showcase.  

Her main areas of interest are policing, particularly investigations and training, as well as criminalistics and forensic science, and theories of crime/criminology.