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Please join Drs. Sarah Prior and Brooke de Heer as they present on their research:

Reframing Campus Sexual Violence

Drs. Sarah Prior and Brooke de Heer will discuss their recent book Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism (2022) and the ways university campuses have struggled to respond to and prevent campus sexual violence.  

Discussion and conversation to follow.

Register here: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E4FHdW1GQl6x9d-V6Raj6A 

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Sarah Prior (she/they) is an Assistant Professor and the Undergraduate Program Director in the Sociology Department and the Directory of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Scholars Program at Michigan State University. She teaches courses on sex, gender and sexuality; social inequality; youth and society; as well as introductory classes in sociology, social science and women’s and gender studies. Her research focuses on gendered violence, specifically looking at issues surrounding campus sexual violence and the push toward neoliberalism on campuses. She also researches issues of rape culture and consent. Dr. Prior’s work has appeared in academic journals, textbooks, and popular outlets. She is the co-author of the book Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism (2022). Her work has appeared in Sociology Compass; Violence Against Women; The Journal of Interpersonal Violence as well as edited volumes including The Moral Panics of Sexuality; Investigating Difference: Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice. 

Brooke de Heer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. Her research agenda focuses on issues of gender and power in sexual violence, with an emphasis on health disparities and inequitable treatment of marginalized victims involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Her work seeks to investigate and validate marginalized peoples’ experiences with sexual violence and work to dismantle systems of oppression that create disparate health outcomes for minoritized populations. Her co-authored book entitled "Campus Sexual Violence: A State of Institutionalized Sexual Terrorism" dissects institutional harm created by negligent responses to sexual violence on college campuses. She has been published in Feminist Criminology, Violence Against Women, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence and Victims, and American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. She has received funding from the National Congress of American Indians, the Center for Victim Research, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) via the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative. She teaches courses on gendered violence, contemporary issues and the criminal justice system, American courts, and crime and justice.