Ashley Fansher
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Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice
- Sexual violence, survey creation, agency collaboration, technology-facilitated victimization
Contact Info
- Email: ashley.fansher@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.0268
Office Address
Department of Criminal Justice
O'Kelly Hall Room 271
221 Centennial Drive Stop 8050
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8050
Biography
Ashley K. Fansher, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice. She started at University of North Dakota in fall 2023, and has previously been an Assistant Professor at University of Houston - Victoria, in Texas, and Avila University, in Kansas City, Missouri. She studies violence against women,with a focus on sexual assault. She has two small, loud dogs, and is a devout Swiftie.
Law and Society
Criminological Theory
Gender and Crime Policy
Pop Culture, Media, and Crime
Introduction to Police
Sexual violence
Stalking
Violence against women
Child sexual abuse
Sexual assault reporting
Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
B.A., M.S. in Criminology, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
Recent selection of publications:
Fansher, A. K., Fleming, J., & Zedaker, S. (2026). Investigating resilience, burnout, and empathy: An exploratory study of small city police officers. Accepted to Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. doi.org/10.1007/s11896-026-09806-5
Randa, R., Fansher, A. K., & Reyns, B. W. (2025). Cyberstalking perpetration by college students: The effects of low self-control and prior victimization. Journal of Criminal Justice, 102, 102556.
Fansher, A. K., Wells, J., & Zedaker, S. (2025). A geo-spatial analysis of reported sexual assault incidents in a metropolitan city. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, doi.org/10.1177/08862605251372558
Fansher, A. K. & Cox, C. (2025). Rationalizing rape: How military appellate courts get to yes. The Journal of Gender, Race, & Justice, 28(2), 419-458.
Fleming, J., Fansher A.K., & Randa, R. (2025). From policy reform to public reckoning: Exploring shifts in reporting of sexual-violence-against-women crimes between 1992 and 2021. Behavioral Sciences, 15(5), 701-721.