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Lori Post, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Research, Communication Arts & Sciences
Senior Fellow, University Outreach and Engagement
Assistant Professor Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media
Communication Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor Telecommunication
Information Studies & Media
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-355-3410 phone
517-432-1244 fax
lapost@msu.edu
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About
Dr. Post is the Assistant Dean for Research in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and Assistant Professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media. While working on her doctorate in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University in 1995, she had an assistantship for the faculty of the Violence Against Women Research and Outreach Initiative. Under the direction of Dr. Sullivan (Psychology), she traveled the state of Michigan to battered women's shelters installing computer systems, writing the handshaking language, and connecting a number of domestic violence shelters to the internet so they could more easily communicate with each other, the state coalition and government agencies. Before working on this project, she knew very little about violence against women (VAW) given her area of study was women's fertility. This initial VAW project put her into contact with survivors, the women on the front lines who served them, and battered women's advocates and researchers throughout the nation.
The following year, Dr. Post worked with Drs. Levande (Social Work) and Bokemeier (Sociology) to estimate the prevalence of domestic violence among the elderly and to develop DV typologies specific to older women. She worked with the medical examiner, the prosecutor, and battered women's services in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Abandoning her fertility studies and defended dissertation proposal, she began a new dissertation and area of study employing capture-recapture and log linear models to estimate the size of invisible populations. The Centers for Disease Control and the Michigan Department of Community Health have been the primary funders of her research. The CDC funded her longitudinal quasi-experimental study aimed at reducing VAW by increasing the web of services in a community to better hold men accountable while supporting battered women.
A second important project involved developing a sexual assault surveillance system for the state of Michigan that would track the incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, and risk and protective factors affiliated with sexual violence. This surveillance system, now in its tenth year, was the second one created (after Arizona) based on one of the requirements of the Violence Against Women Acts I & II.
Dr. Post has also worked closely with women's programs to develop data collection systems and to evaluate VAW community programs.