Approaches
Multi-Level
Violence is influenced by factors at the individual, interpersonal, community, and societal levels. VPI’s multi-level approach examines and addresses these interconnected influences simultaneously, creating interventions that are comprehensive and contextually informed. Faculty and projects integrate research across domains to understand how individual behavior, social networks, institutional practices, and policy environments interact, providing evidence for interventions that operate across multiple levels of influence.
Researchers
Xiaojin Chen, PhD
Professor, School of Liberal Arts
Specialty Areas: Developmental Criminology, Delinquency & Victimization Among Disadvantaged Children
Samantha Francois, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Specialty Areas: Adolescent Development, Structural Violence, Anti-racist Research
Kelli Stidham Hall, PhD, MS
Associate Dean of Research & Professor, The Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Specialty Areas: Policy, Community Engagement, Interventions, Poverty, Structural Racism
Sarah Hinshaw-Fuselier, PhD, LCSW
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Specialty Areas: Early Childhood, Mental Health Consultation
Katherine Johnson, PhD
Professor, School of Liberal Arts
Specialty Areas: Sexual Violence, Sociology, Infertility, Reproductive Technologies, Family Norms
Sally J. Kenney, PhD
Professor & Newcomb College Endowed Chair and Director, Newcomb Institute 2010-2022
Specialty Areas: The Politics Of Gender-Based Violence, Exclusionary Policies
Evan Krueger, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Specialty Areas: Mental Health, Addiction, Social Environmental Factors
Lolita Moss, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
Speciality Areas: Intimate Partner Violence, Media socialization, Adolescent development, Intervention, & African American youth
Catherine O'Connor, PhD, LMSW
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Specialty Areas: Indigenous Women And Children, Resilience, Health Disparities
Stacy Overstreet, PhD
Professor, School of Science & Engineering
Specialty Areas: Family Violence, School-Based Intervention, Trauma-Informed Care
Patrick Rafail, PhD
Associate Professor, Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
Specialty Areas: Social Movements And Collective Behavior, Applied Statistics, Political Sociology, Social Control, Complex Organizations, Urban Policing
Dovile Vilda, PhD
Assistant Professor, The Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Specialty Areas: Policy, Health Equity, Social Determinants
Lisa Wade, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts
Specialty Areas: Campus Sexual Violence Prevention
Projects
Center for Youth Equity
Enrichment 2 Empowerment
Supportive Hospital-based Intervention for Firearm Trauma
Community-Based Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative
Healthy Neighborhoods
Address
1440 Canal Street, Suite 1510, New Orleans, LA 70112
social media
@tulanevpi