Jonathan A. LLoyd
Jonathan LLoyd, Sociology PhD Student
I am currently working towards my PhD in Sociology with a certificate in Public History. I was the first Secretary for the Sociology Graduate Student Organization, a student-led union designed to facilitate academic and professional development for our department as well as serve as a liaison between faculty and the student body. I currently serve the organization as a Graduate Student Assembly Representative.
My past research has examined how hate groups have used the Internet to influence narratives and perpetrate hate crimes. My current projects include testing for likelihood of hate crime offending and victimization among first-year college students and a digital mapping project for anti-Semitic incidents.
I earned my Bachelor of Arts in both History and Sociology from Concord University in 2015, where I also performed archival research into and interviews with Eastern Orthodox pilgrims and monastics in the contiguous United States, contributing my findings that the Orthodox monastic community historically influences not only adherent’s spiritual life, but their political and social views as well. During my time at the university, I served as Secretary for both the Sociology and Computer Science Clubs as well as Vice President of the Writers Club. I was on the Dean’s List from 2012 to 2015 and was the first recipient of the Five Aces Scholarship.
I earned my Master of Science in Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2019. My Thesis, “Hate Managers and Where They Target: An Analysis of Hate Crime as Hate Group Self-Help” asks the question of how hate groups methodically encourage where hate crimes occur. During my time in the program, I served as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. James Hawdon and conducted studies of extremist websites. I contributed to a joint project to produce a codebook for framing hateful tweets, titled “Framing Hate with Hate Frames”. I was also a member of Students for Non-Violence as well as the on-campus Orthodox Christian Fellowship.
- Hate Groups
- Hate Crime
- Social Control Theory
- History of Criminology and Crime Science
- History and Sociology of Technology
- MS in Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2019
- BA in Sociology, Concord University, 2015
- BA in History, Concord University, 2015
Best Section Award (News) 2013
Concord University Fine Arts Division Athens, WV
Second Runner Up 2013
Concord University David S. Roth Athens, WV
Memorial Writing Competition
Honors for Contribution of Creative Energy 2015
RiffRaff Arts Collective and the Renaissance Princeton, WV
Journal Articles
Shruti Phadke, Jonathan Lloyd, James Hawdon, Mattia Samory, and Tanushree Mitra. 2018. “Framing Hate with Hate Frames: Designing the Codebook.” In Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 201-204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3274055.
Book Chapters
Lloyd, Jonathan A. 2013. “Digital Footprint: A ‘Concerned and Careful’ Approach.” Pp. 47-49 in Plug-in and Live: Voices from the Digital Natives, edited by Alecea Standlee. Athens, WV: Smashwords.
- “Hate Crimes as Social Control: Theorizing the Hate Manager.” Presented at “Improving the Efficiency and Quality of Criminology Research and Education”, Southern Criminal Justice Association Conference. September 11, 2019, Nashville, TN.
- “Public Data to Predict Hate Crimes.” Presented at “Technology for Security/Technology for Sustenance”, Virginia Tech Community Conversation, April 24, 2019, Blacksburg, VA.
- LLoyd, Jonathan A. and James Hawdon. 2020. “Thrill Seekers, Extremists, or ‘Just Boys Being Boys’?: Towards an Integrated Theory Model of Hateful Youth.” This research project involves using survey data from first-year freshman at two different colleges to determine what existing theoretical aspects best predict the likelihood of a juvenile committing a bias offense or hate crime.
- LLoyd, Jonathan A. “Hateful Locales: Anti-Semitism in Virginia 2010-2019.” This Digital Humanities project involves mapping all reported anti-Semitic incidents from law enforcement as well as regional and cultural newspapers to provide the digitally connected public information about systemic discrimination’s impact in an easily digestible format.
- American Society of Criminology
- Southern Criminal Justice Association
- American Sociological Association
- “The ‘Gerrymander’: The Politics of Redistricting,” Newman Library, Blacksburg, VA, Research and Text Contributor, April 15-July 8, 2019.
- PSVP 2044: Peace and Violence (FALL 2019)
- Applied Research Associates, Inc. 2019. Development of Reusable Respirators Program. Addendum to BARDA Annual Report, Capital Area Division.
- Applied Research Associates, Inc. 2019. Field Usability Assessment Decision Tree. Training Material for 4TDS Development, Capital Area Division.