Dr. Nicole Bedera

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.