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National Domestic Violence Awareness month is October, and we share an encore with sociologist Dr. Nicole Bedera
Dr. Bedera is a sociologist studying how sexual violence is much bigger than the people involved in a sexual assault. Her research broadly focuses on how our social structures contribute to survivors' trauma and make sexual violence more likely to occur in the future. Her scholarship has influenced sexual violence prevention programming across the country, including for Planned Parenthood, and her work has been featured in many popular outlets, including The New York Times, NPR and Teen Vogue. Dr. Bedera is the author of the forthcoming book On the Wrong Side: How Universities Betray Survivors to Protect Perpetrators of Sexual Assault.
Find out more about Dr. Bedera's work at nicolebedera.com.
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Author / Sociologist
Dr. Nicole Bedera is a sociologist studying how sexual violence is much bigger than the people involved in a sexual assault. Her work focuses on how social structures, organizations, and culture create a world where violence is predictable and ordinary. By identifying how violence is produced, she can identify interventions to make our society safer.
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Over the past decade, Dr. Bedera has studied sexual violence in a variety of contexts, including college campuses and LGBTQ communities. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and featured in The New York Times, NPR, Time Magazine, Slate, and Teen Vogue. Dr. Bedera an Affiliated Educator at the Center for Institutional Courage. To put her research into action, she co-founded Beyond Compliance with Dr. Jacqueline Cruz.
Her first book, On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence, was published with the University of California Press.
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