Ophir Sefiha PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Western Carolina University
Belk Hall 410G
Cullowhee, NC 28723
opsefiha@wcu.edu
828 227-2176
Education:
Ph.D., Justice and Social Inquiry. Arizona State University, 2010
M.A., Criminology. Northern Arizona University, 2004
B.A., Criminology. Northern Arizona University, 1997
Select Publications:
Sefiha, Ophir and Nancy Reichman. 2015. “When Every Test is a Winner: Clean Cycling,
Surveillance, and the New Preemptive Governance.” Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Inpress.
Sefiha, Ophir and Nancy Reichman. 2014. “(Be)coming Clean: Confessions as Governance in
Professional Cycling.” Catalan Journal of Communication and Media, 6, 177-195.
Kopak, Al and Ophir Sefiha. 2014. “Becoming Badass. Teaching Katz’s ‘Ways of the Badass’
Using the Breaking Bad Television Series.” Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 26, 94-114.
Reichman, Nancy and Ophir Sefiha. 2013. “Regulating Performance Enhancing
Technologies: A Comparison of Professional Cycling and Derivatives Trading.” The Annals of
the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 649, 98-118.
Sefiha, Ophir. 2012. “Bad Sports: Explaining Sport Related Deviance.” Sociology Compass, 6,
949-961.
Sefiha, Ophir 2012. “Bike Racing, Neutralization and the Social Construction of PerformanceEnhancing Drug Use.” Contemporary Drug Problems, 39, 214-240.
Provine, D., Reshawna Chapple, Kishonna Gray, Ophir Sefiha and Michael Walker. 2011.
Perspectives on Justice (2nd ed.). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.
Select Presentations:
Sefiha, O. (2015, November). Sefiha, O. & Nancy Reichman (2015). A Fork in the Road to
Clean Cycling: The Cycling Independent Reform Commission and the Future of Anti-Doping.
Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference. Washington, DC.
Sefiha, O. (2014, September). The ‘Clean Cycling’ Corrective: A Cultural Response to the
Drugs in Sport Crisis? Presented at the Southern Criminal Justice Association annual
conference. Clearwater, Florida.
Sefiha, O. & Nancy Reichman (2013, November). The Confessional as Governance:
Confession, Contrition, and Anti-doping Policy in Professional Cycling. Presented at the
American Society of Criminology annual conference. Atlanta, GA.
Sefiha, O. (2012, November). Bike racing, neutralization, and the social construction of
performance-enhancing drug use. Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual
conference. Chicago, IL.
Sefiha, O. (2011, November). Constructive rationales for performance-enhancing drug use
among elite athletes. Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual conference.
Washington, DC.