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Adrienne Adams

My research interests center around economic justice for survivors of intimate partner abuse, and evaluating community-based domestic abuse victim service programs...

Marisa Beeble

My research interests are quite broad as they focus on examining ecological factors related to well-being/mental health and mental illness...

Giannina Cabral

Research interests include dating violence prevention for adolescents, attribution and coping styles among stranger and non-stranger rape survivors...

Megan Greeson

My broad research interest is the spectrum of violence against women, particularly sexual assault and intimate partner violence. More specifically, I am interested in how individuals, organizations, and communities address...

Nidal Karim

Violence against women in the international context, Women's empowerment tools in international development specifically microcredit...

Shannon Kobes

My primary interest lies in the program development and evaluation of formal and informal systems response to sexual assault, namely coordinated community responses, violence prevention and intervention policy...

Kristen Law

My research interests include primary prevention of gendered violence, gender socialization, youth as social change agents, and systems level change.

Lauren Lichty

My research interests include primary prevention of gendered violence, promoting the health and well-being of youth, comprehensive sex education, youth as social change agents...

Emily Meyer

The question that drives a majority of my research is, "how are decisions made / rules established in families where domestic violence is present?" As a result of this foundational interest, I focus primarily on the events that occur after a woman has decided to leave...

Debra Patterson

* Sexual violence * Impact of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs on sexual assault survivors' well-being and the community's response to rape * Criminal justice response to violence * Trends in the rape crisis movement ...