Michael D Tucker

Dr. Michael Tucker earned an M.A. from American Military University (2016) in Homeland Security. His master thesis explored the internal structures of several Mexican drug cartels. Dr. Tucker received his Ph.D. from Liberty University (2022) in Criminal Justice: Homeland Security, where his research focused on right-wing extremism, domestic terrorism, and violent crime.

From 1989 to 2010, Dr. Tucker worked as a sheriff’s officer-lieutenant with the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office in Paterson, NJ. After retirement, Dr. Tucker worked for the Department of Homeland Security as a federal security inspector-aviation at John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, New York. After leaving government service, Dr. Tucker entered private employment as a security and criminal investigative consultant working on large Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) subcontracts.

He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. Dr. Tucker is currently engaged in writing a book that will be published by Ethics International Press. His major research accomplishments are focused on American extremism and domestic violence.