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Congratulations to our members Kristen Prock and Drs. Angie Kennedy, Heather McCauley, Deborah Bybee on their recent publication in Psychology of Women Quarterly entitled “Young Women’s Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Patterns Across Multiple Relationships.” Their work explored patterns of intimate partner violence within...
Dr. Amy Bonomi, RCGV faculty and Chair of Human Development and Family Studies, recently published an article in the Journal of Family Violence in which she argued for a human rights approach to understanding and addressing sexual misconduct on college...
In August, the MSU Sexual Assault Program launched an online crisis chat available for survivors of sexual assault. The crisis chat provides survivors with resources and support. The crisis chat is staffed by Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention volunteers who...
Lt. Andrea Munford has recently begun to develop a program on police investigations in relationship violence and sexual assault on a survivor-centered and trauma-informed basis. As the Trauma-Informed Investigative Training Coordinator, Lt. Munford will develop a comprehensive training curriculum, develop...
A dog named Justice joined the MSU Sexual Assault Program in April. Justice has previously trained as a Leader Dog for the blind. Justice is in training to be a canine advocate work at the Sexual Assault Program. She...
Congratulations to Emma Repp as the award winner for the RCGV’s 2018 Best Undergraduate Paper on Gender-based Violence for her paper “Ni Uno Menos: The Fight to End Femicide in Latin America.” Emma’s paper highlighted the the Ni Uno Menos movement that has...
On Thursday, February 1, 2018, MSU Board of Trustees member Brian Mosallam hosted a Town Hall open to the University. This was the first event of its kind as the public began to cope with the unfolding of the...
Congratulation to our member Dr. Carrie Moylan and student McKenzie Javorka on their recent publication, “Widening the Lens: An Ecological Review of Campus Sexual Assault.” Their work used an ecological approach to identify and synthesize research related to campus-level sexual violence. The...
Please see below for the Anti-Sexual Violence Statement, written by the co-chairs of the Violence Against Women and Children Special Interest Group of the Society for Social Work and Research (Shanti Kulkarni, Associate Professor at the University of North...
RCGV is excited and proud to be a part of this important project! Learn more about community-based participatory research through this innovative toolkit. Congratulations to RCGV Director, Dr. Cris Sullivan, and the many authors of the #CBPRtoolkit!
RCGV faculty and Criminal Justice professor April Zeoli has been featured in several articles and media appearances about the link between domestic violence and mass shootings. You can hear Dr. Zeoli on NPR’s On Point here, or read about...
RCGV faculty member, Dr. Heather McCauley, has published a chapter on clinical interventions to promote conversations about healthy relationships among LGBT patients in the new, groundbreaking book Trauma, Resilience and Health Promotion in LGBT Patients. Her co-author is Dr....
RCGV Professor Amy Bonomi‘s recent study has found that sexual violence and intimate partner violence can worsen mental health outcomes for women with disabilities. Read more in this story by MSU Today.
Our wonderful RCGV faculty and students have been up to lots of exciting things! Dr. Sheryl Kubiak and doctoral student Cristy Cummings will be presenting at the Batterer Intervention Services Coalition of Michigan (BISC-MI) conference in Dearborn, MI on...
Please join us in extending a warm congratulations to Professor Stephanie Nawyn on her new appointment as MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen)’s Co-Director of Academic Programs, Outreach, and Engagement! Dr. Nawyn is an associate professor in Sociology,...
Our very own Dr. Cris Sullivan will be speaking at The State We Are In 2016 – Towards a Safe Ireland for Women and Children. You can find more information about the conference and the sponsoring organization here.
On January 21st, Dr. Zeoli joined a group of Democratic Senators and national researchers in a press conference calling for immediate funding of Gun Violence Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The dedication of Dr. Zeoli...
RCGV professor Amy Bonomi finds that college students do recognize abusive behaviors in Fifty Shades. Please read about her study here.
The Department of Justice, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have launched a federal Domestic Violence and Housing Technical Assistance Consortium to better address the critical housing needs...
MI Public Radio interviewed Gina Fedock, assistant professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, about sexual abuse in women’s prisons. Fedock spoke about the nationwide problem of sexual abuse of inmates and the changes...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has launched a pilot program, Beyond Violence, in two women’s-only facilities to help the prisoners deal with past trauma. Beyond Violence provides the women with group therapy opportunities to address mental health...
Dr. April Zeoli, associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice and RCGV member, has been awarded a Joyce Foundation grant to analyze the strength of legal firearm restrictions for perpetrators of domestic violence and their impact on intimate partner...
Gina Fedock, doctoral student in Social Work and a member of the RCGV, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Women coping with life: A mixed methods study of incarcerated women with life sentences” on May 22nd. Congratulations Dr. Fedock!
RCGV members Rubén Parra-Cardona, Cris Sullivan, Gaby López Zerón, and Rocio Escobar-Chew were honored to host Dr. Elizabeth Aguilar May 14th to discuss disseminating the Community Advocacy Project to Latin America. Dr. Aguilar is the Director of Centro de...
Congratulations to RCGV member Nkiru Nnawulezi, who on May 8th successfully defended her dissertation study entitled “Linking Organizational Context to Survivor Empowerment: A Mixed Methods Study.” Her dissertation tested a conceptual model linking program theory, organizational culture, organizational structure,...
The Department of Justice is recognizing Dr. Rebecca Campbell with the Vision 21 Research Award for improving the nation’s understanding of sexual assault and medical and criminal justice professionals’ response to victims. This award was presented during the National Crime...
Dr. April Zeoli has been mentoring Madeline MacLean and Andrew Martin, students in the Social Science Scholars program. Madeline, a freshman in Criminal Justice, and Andrew, a freshman in political science, presented their poster “Mass shootings in the media:...
“A diverse team of scientists, prosecutors, police, victim advocates and others has solved the problem of untested rape kits in Detroit, creating a model that can be used in other communities, finds the lead researcher of the high-profile project.”...
Please join me in congratulation Dr. NiCole Buchanan as a recipient of the APA’s Society for the Psychology of Women’s 2015 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award for the development of innovative ideas and learning activities to enhance the teaching of diversity. Congratulations...
Please see the attached flyer for our online courses on gender-based violence this summer! The courses are filling up fast so please share widely! Summer Session 1: Children’s Exposure to Domestic Violence: Promoting Resiliency (PSY 316) Sexual Assault: Context,...
MSU’s Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence faculty and staff are dedicated to research and outreach initiatives related to ending and preventing gender-based violence and improving the community response to survivors. RCGV faculty are committed to mentoring the next generation of gender-based violence researchers by providing substantial educational and employment opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant and widespread social problem internationally, devastating adults, children, families and societies across the globe. It includes any form of harm that is both a consequence and cause of gender power inequities. It can be physical, psychological, sexual, economic, or sociocultural, and includes but is not limited to sexual abuse, rape, intimate partner abuse, incest, sexual harassment, stalking, femicide, trafficking, gendered hate crimes and dowry abuse. Gender-based violence intersects with race-based, class-based or religiously oppressive forms of abuse, and cross-cuts many other social problems (e.g., poverty, substance abuse, mental and physical health, crime).
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