Ophir   Sefiha

• Lecturer/Post-Doc
• Sturm Hall 418
• 303.871.2253
• Ophir.Sefiha@du.edu

Background:

Ophir Sefiha, Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow, received his PhD in 2010 from Arizona State University. Professor Sefiha's research centers on the interplay among deviance and social control, consumer culture, media, and crime. He is interested the creation, maintenance, and resistance of social control measures adopted to respond to the use of particular enhancement technologies. His most recent publication titled, ”Bike Racing, Neutralization, and the Social Construction of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use” is an ethnographic, cross-cultural study of attitudes and understandings of drug use among elite cyclists from the United States and Belgium and the relationship between elite sport culture and drug use. His current research investigates the process by which athletes and sport personnel negotiate anti-doping regulations.  Professor Sefiha teaches Criminology; Legal Actors and Institutions; Sport, Deviance, and Social Control; and Methods. 

Sefiha Curriculum Vitae