HATER Lab
Hate, Aggression, Terror, and Extremism Research
HATER Lab
The University of Utah Hate, Aggression, Terror, and Extremism Research (HATER) Lab is composed of faculty and students with research interests in all aspects of bias and conflict. We apply qualitative and quantitative research methods to problems including hate crimes and organized hate, social issues and inequities, radicalization processes, political violence, mis/disinformation, conspiracy theories, and national security.
People
Asmita Bhattarai (PhD) - Big Data and Hazards
Ashley Green
Marissa Greer
Brenna Kelly (PhD)
Makaio Kimbrough (PhD)
Dave Leydet
Nathan Marks
Talula Pontuti (MS)
Charles Zinn
Research Papers
Recent Publications
Kelly BC, Brewer SC, Medina RM, & Bakian AV. (2024) Racial and ethnic disparities
in health risk from industrial surface water pollution in the United States, 2011–2021.
Health & Place 89, 103343.
Hohl A, Choi M, Medina R, Wan N, Wen M. (2024) COVID-19: Adverse Population Sentiment
and Place-Based Associations with Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors. Spatial Information
Research 32, 73-84.
Allain ML, Bhattarai A, McNeally, P, & Medina RM. (2024) Stopping the Steal: The Radical Ecology of the (Perceived) Conflict State in the United States. The Professional Geographer 76(1), 37-47.
Medina RM, Brewer S, & Kirkpatrick SM. (2023) Public UAP Sightings and the Environment: An Analysis of Sky View Potential. Nature Scientific Reports 13, 22213. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-49527-x.
Hohl A, Choi M, Yellowhorse AJ, Medina RM, Wan N, & Wen M. (2022) Spatial Distribution of Hateful Tweets Against Asians and Asian Americans During the COVID-19 Pandemic, November 2019 to May 2020. American Journal of Public Health 112(4), 646-649.
Medina RM, Brewer S, Linke A, Nicolosi EA, Allain ML, & Tharp D. (2022) The Sociospatial
Ecology of Deaths During Police Interactions in the United States, 2016-2020. Political
Geography 98, 102710.
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E. A., Riley, C., and McNeally, P. (2021) Reflections on
Responses to Geographical Research on Hate in the United States. Public Understanding of Science 30(6): 797-806.
Nicolosi, E. A., Medina, R. M., Riley, C., and McNeally, P. (2020) Crowdsourcing Sensitive
VGI: Constructing the Hate Incident Reporting System. Digital Geography and Society. 1:100003.
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E. A., Brewer, S., and Moore, E. A. (2021) Geographical Analysis
of Socioeconomic and Ideological Drivers of Hate Crime in the United States. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 12(2): 39-56.
Medina, R. M., Byrne, K., Brewer, S., and Nicolosi, E. (2020) Housing Inequalities:
Eviction Patterns in Salt Lake County, Utah. Cities 104(102804).
Linke, A. M. (2022). Post-election violence in Kenya: leadership legacies, demography
and motivations. Territory, Politics, Governance, 10(2), 180-199.
Fuhriman C, Medina RM, & Brewer S. (2022) Introducing a Dataset of Multi-Scale Geographies
of ISIS Ideology from ISIS Sources. Terrorism and Political Violence 34(4), 817-834.
Medina, R. M., Nicolosi, E., Brewer, S, and Linke, A. (2018) Geographies of Organized
Hate in America: A Regional Analysis. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
108(4):1006-1021.
AM Linke, A. M., Witmer, F. D. W., O'Loughlin, J., McCabe, J. T., Tir, J. (2018) The
consequences of relocating in response to drought: Human mobility and conflict in
contemporary Kenya. Environmental Research Letters 13(9): 094014.
Pulver, A. and Medina, R. M. (2018) A Review of Security and Privacy Concerns in Digital
Intelligence Collection. Intelligence and National Security 33(2):241-256.
Linke, A. M., Witmer, F. D. W., O’Loughlin, J., McCabe, J. T., Tir, J. (2018) Drought,
local institutional contexts, and support for violence in Kenya. Journal of Conflict
Resolution 62(7): 1544-1578.
Linke, A., Witmer, F. D. W., Holland, E. C., and O'Loughlin, J. (2017) Mountainous
Terrain and Civil Wars: Geospatial Analysis of Conflict Dynamics in the Post-Soviet
Caucasus. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 107(2): 520-535.
Fuhriman, C., Medina, R. M., and Brewer, S. (2017) A Point Process Analysis of Terror
Attacks in Afghanistan, 2002-2013. Middle States Geographer 50:50-63.