Dr. Bernard McCarthy Office: 467 Strong Hall Phone: 417-836-6679 Email: BernardMcCarthy@MissouriState.edu

Bernard (Bernie) McCarthy, PhD, is a Professor of Criminology and directs the Community and Social Issues Institute and the Center for Homeland Security at Missouri State University. He is also serving as Principal Investigator and Project Director for an Emergency Management Planning Grant for Higher Education. He is an active member of the Missouri Board of Higher Education, Task Force on Homeland Security and chair’s the subcommittee on homeland security curriculum for colleges and universities.

He received his PhD in Criminology from the Florida State University and a Master’s in Criminal Justice from the State University of New York in Albany. He also holds a master’s degree in Education (social science). Professionally he has worked in state adult corrections (New York state prison system) and served as a consultant to criminal justice agencies on a variety of projects. Most recently he has worked with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office on a regional police information system, Orange County Corrections (Jail Crowding) and, in Springfield; he co-chaired the Springfield/Green County Disaster Response Action Committee following the massive ice storm of 2007 and served on the Green County Justice and Safety Commission.

His international experience includes: serving on the steering committee of the UCF East European Linkage Institute, as Principal Investigator on a three year democratic policing grant project in the Udmurt Republic (Russia), tourism policing in the Caribbean (St Lucia) and South America (Uruguay) and is an advisory board member for the Turkish Institute for Security and Democracy. For the past two years he has been a member, US State Department Overseas Advisory Security Council.

In 2007, he was selected as an Academic Fellow by the Foundation for Democracy (Washington, DC) and participated in a two week anti-terrorist training program in Israel.  For the past three years he has been involved with the Naval Post Graduate School in developing graduate certificate programs for professionals working in the field of Homeland Security.  Missouri State was selected as a partner with the Naval Post Graduate School in offering this certificate program to the Missouri National Guard. This program was later opened and expanded to any graduate student who had an interest in the field.   

He is married to Belinda McCarthy and has two children, Matthew, a physician in New York City and Megan, a Foreign Policy Analyst for the US government.