Christopher Magno

  • Associate Professor
    Criminal Justice Program
  • Adjunct Lecturer
    Marketing Program
  • Associate Professor
    Sociology Program

I joined the faculty at Gannon University in 2010, committed to hands-on learning and active community engagement. My teaching philosophy emphasizes interactive experiences that are vibrant and engaging, whether conducted online or face-to-face.

Throughout my tenure, I have led numerous initiatives that stretch the boundaries of traditional classroom education. In my "Alternative Social Control Systems" course, we collected books for Erie County prisoners. During "Juvenile Justice," my students and I organized book drives for refugee children in elementary schools.

My GIS courses, including crime mapping, actively contribute to our community. Students have undertaken various impactful projects, such as mapping crime hotspots, locating security cameras, identifying food deserts, and spearheading the Erie Safe Route project for local school districts. They have also tackled broader environmental and social challenges by mapping trees, parks, pollutants, poverty, income, and inequality. Students enjoy making these issues visible through maps and graphs, as it ignites conversation and, at times, inspires action among stakeholders.

As a professor, I firmly believe in nurturing the creative and critical thinking potential of each student. By developing these skills, we can make meaningful contributions both locally and globally. I look forward to exploring these possibilities together.

  • Magno, C. Research Fellowship. Philippine Normal University. Research Title: Spatial Analysis of Covid 19 and Incidents of Extra-judicial killings and their Impact to the Attainment of Philippine Social Development Goals. Principal Investigator, awarded, January 2022. Amount $20, 500.00.
  • Magno, C. (2021, January 5, 2021). “Understanding Jefferson Society’s Demography and Community. Awarded by Jefferson Educational Society: Erie’s Think Tank for Community Progress. Amount: $6,500. Principal Investigator. Awarded: Spring 2021.
  •  Magno, C, C. Dempsey and M. Homan. Capital Equipment Grant. GIS Center for Education and Engagement. Alden Trust Grant. Principal Investigator, awarded September 30, 2019. Amount: $110,000.00.
  • Magno, C. Erie School District Walkability and Security. Erie Community Foundation. Safe Routes to School. Principal Investigator, awarded February 15, 2019. Amount $11,380.00.
  • College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship Award (2009). College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington.   
  • Matias L. Ochoada Fellowship Award (December 2009). College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington. 
  • Criminal Justice Doctoral Fellowship Award (Spring and summer 2005). Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington.  Robert F. Borkenstein Graduate Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement Department of Criminal Justice. Indiana University, Bloomington May 2008.
  • Cooney-Jackman Endowed Professorship (2013-2016).Gannon University. Research: Urban Crime, Urban Issues and Geographic Information System. 
  • 2014  “The Big Award” . . .  “for demonstrating excellence in doing those ‘little’ things that make Gannon a caring place for our motivated students.” Gannon conferred this award after my students and I collected 3000 books for Erie refugee children.
  • 2015 “The Big Award” . . . “for demonstrating excellence in doing those ‘little’ things that make Gannon a caring place for our motivated students.” Awarded to recognize my initiative in organizing the Globalization Speaker Series and Community-based Mapping Exhibit.
    of Engagement for Early Career Faculty.
  • Awarded 1st Place in 2014 CETL’s Annual Teaching Technology Award.
  • Awarded 1st Place in 2013 CETL’s Annual Teaching Technology Award.
  • Faculty Award for Excellence in Service-Learning

• Geographic Information System
for Environmental Engineering,
Marketing and Business
• GIS and Spatial Justice
• Crime Mapping
• Introduction to Criminal Justice
• Crime Mapping and Analysis
• Criminal Investigation
• Service Learning
• Ethics in Criminal Justice
• Issues in Criminal Justice
• Alternative Social Control

  • Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, Bloomington. Dissertation: “Crime as Political Capital in the Philippines.” Minor: Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 2010.
  • M.A. in Sociology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. Thesis: “President Joseph Estrada and Manila’s Urban Poor Movement,” 2004.
  • Certificate Courses in Geographic Information System
  • Bachelor in Secondary Education, Major in Social Science, Philippine Normal University, Manila, Philippines, 2009.
  • American Society of Criminology
  • Justice Studies Association
  • Academy of Criminal Justice and Sciences
  • Magno, C. (2012). Corruption and Revolution: Transformations of Crime into Political Capital in the Philippine. Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, volume 5, number 2. Southern Utah University Press. Weblink: https://suu.edu/hss/polscj/journal/
  • Lichtenwalter, S. & Magno, C. (2014) Ableism, Poverty and the Under-Celebrated Resistance. In S. Haymes, A.L. Joseph & M. Vidal de Haymes (Editors)  Routledge Handbook of Poverty and the United States (p. 444-455),  New York, NY: Routledge.Web link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415673440/
  • Magno, C. and Parnell, P. (2014) The Imperialism of Race: class, rights and patronage in the Philippine city. Race and Class Journal (Vol. 56, p. 69-85). Sage Publication and Institute of Race Relation, United Kingdom. Web link: http://rac.sagepub.com/content/56/3/69.abstract
  • Magno, C (2014). Policing Poverty and the Criminalization of the Poor. PRAXIS—The Indiana University Alumni for International Human Rights Law Review, 1 (1): 30-37. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Press.Web link: https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/5524
  •  Magno, C. (2015). “Cartography at the Grassroots: Fostering Research through Community-Based Mapping.” Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly. Volume 35, Issue number 4.  Weblink: http://www.cur.org/publications/summer_2015_curq_on_the_web/
  • Magno, C., Yunkai Liu, and Anirudh Marthur. (2015) "Crime Risk Evaluation in Individual's Local Community." Conference Proceedings of MOBIHOC 2015 ACM 2015.No 11 (2015): 59-63. Print.Weblink: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2757387

 

Selected Presentations:

  • Magno, C. “Empowering Student Participation in Experiential Learning using Mapping Technologies and the Community-Based Participatory Research Model.” National Conference on Undergraduate Research. University of Kentucky, Lexington Kentucky. April 3-5, 2014.
  • Magno, C. “Cartography in the Grassroots: Fostering Research through Community-Based Mapping.” CUR 2014: Creating the Citizens of Tomorrow: Undergraduate Research for All. Washington, Distric of Columbia. June 8-July 1, 2014.
  • Magno, C. “Spatial Justice: Spatial Dynamics of Crime, Group and Social Service.” 2014 ESRI User Conference Paper Sessions. San Diego, California. July 14–18, 2014.
  • Magno, C and S. Lichtenwalter. “Disabling the Able: From the War against the Weak to the War on Terror.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois. November 14-17, 2012.
  • Magno, C. “In the Name of City: The Urban Infrastructure of Criminalization and the Manufacturing of Transgression.  Paper presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Philippines (ICOPHIL 9). East Lansing, Michigan USA. October 28-30, 2012.
  • Magno, C. and J. Schept  “Radical Criminology for Everyday Life.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, California. November 17-20, 2010.
  • Magno, C. and H. Pepinsky. “Domains of Crime and Oppression.” Paper Presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Justice Studies Association, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA. June 9-11, 2011.
  • Magno, C. “Whipping the Colonial Bodies.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, D. C.  November 16-19, 2011.
  • Magno, C. “The Politics of Criminal Performances.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, District of Columbia. November 16-19, 2010.
  • Magno, C. “Savage Art: Distorting Filipino Identities from the United States to Philippine Caricature.” Paper presented in the 2009 Diversity Research Symposium. Ball State University, Muncie Indiana. November 14, 2009

2012-Present:         Pro bono GIS Analyst and Data Consultant for Erie Police Department, Erie Downtown Development Corporation, Our West Bayfront and other non-profit organizations.

2023-Present        Board Member, Erie Day School

2021-Present         Board Member, Interchurch Ministry

2020-Present         Board Member, Crime Victim Center.

2010-2015          President, Filipino-American Association

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