His area of specialty and interest is U.S.-Mexico Border issues and criminal justice. He has also been published in the Albuquerque Journal, Americas Quarterly, Catholic News Service, The Crime Report, The Global Intelligence, and the New York Times. He is a former Guggenheim fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the French-American Foundation. Mr. Kolb brings this knowledge and experience to Western New Mexico University to provide the perspective of the criminal justice system through the eyes of a journalist.