Tanyanne Ball

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Tanyanne Bell

Tanyanne Ball joined Mercy University as an Adjunct Lecturer in 2025. Her professional background - including serving as a police officer in the UK, working as a Research Assistant for the Federal Monitor’s NYPD body-camera project, and holding HR roles in charter schools in East New York - has shaped her research interests in policing as a gendered institution, transformative dialogic processes, relationality, and culture change within law enforcement. She holds a BA in History of Art & French from University College London and an MSc in Forensic Investigation from Teesside University. Currently in the final year of her PhD in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, she is deeply committed to scholarship and teaching. After teaching her first college-level class in 2021, she developed a passion for undergraduate criminal justice education, which continues to shape her academic interests. 

PhD Student, Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY Graduate Center

MSc, Forensic Investigation, University of Teesside, United Kingdom - 2003-2004 
Thesis: Forensics on the Front Line: A Survey of Forensic Awareness and Training in ‘Police Force A’.

BA Honors, History of Art and French, University College London, London, United Kingdom - 1994-1998 

Osborn, M., Ball, T., & Rajah, V. (2024). Peer Support Work in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380241271350 

CRJU 253 – Policing