Campus Sexual Violence (PDF)

Sarah Prior is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Michigan State University. She teaches courses on sexual violence, sex, gender and sexuality, social inequality, and youth studies. Her research agenda focuses on gendered violence, specifically addressing issues surrounding campus sexual violence. Her work seeks to center marginalized experiences and challenge structural apparatuses. Her work has appeared in such outlets as Sociology Compass, Violence against Women, and 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, and Intersectionality in Education Research.

Brooke A. de Heer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. She teaches courses on gendered violence, contemporary issues and the criminal justice system, American courts, and crime and justice. 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. She has been published in Feminist Criminology, Violence Against Women, Sociology Compass, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence and Victims, Journal of school Violence, and American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research.