People
Center leads
Dr. Alexander is an Associate Professor and Metrolina Distinguished Scholar in Health and Public Policy. Her expertise includes interpersonal and sexual violence, sexual offending, system-involved youth, trauma-informed care, and culturally responsive practice.
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Dr. Cramer is the Belk Distinguished Professor in Health Research. His expertise includes suicide prevention, violence prevention (e.g., gun violence), sexual and gender minority health, individual differences (e.g., coping, self-efficacy), and survey design/scale development.
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Dr. Mennicke is an Associate Professor in Social Work. She has expertise in mixed methods research and violence prevention theory and intervention evaluation, particularly sexual assault and bystander intervention among sexual and gender minorities.
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Dr. Moxie is an Associate Professor in Public Health Sciences. Her expertise includes sexual and gender minority populations, resilience, subjective experiences of sexual health, and qualitative methods (e.g., photo-elicited interviews).
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Core faculty
Dr. Basinger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies. She uses mixed methods to examine interpersonal processes (e.g., stress, coping, support, stigma) in health contexts, including chronic illness, pregnancy, sexual health, and communication with healthcare providers.
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Dr. Cacace is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences. Her expertise includes military and veteran health, identity stigma, implementation theory, community-based research, program evaluation, and psychometrics and latent variable modeling.
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Dr. Gaub is an Assistant Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology. Her expertise includes police misconduct, police use of force and technology, and qualitative methodologies.
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Dr. Montanaro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Science. Her research broadly focuses on understanding how people can successfully initiate and maintain new health behaviors (e.g., sexual health, alcohol use). She also has methodological expertise in advanced quantitative analytics (e.g., longitudinal structural equation modeling).
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Dr. Richardson is an Assistant Professor in Social Work and Director of the Race and Social Equity Academy. Her expertise includes identifying and disrupting barriers (i.e., individual, family, provider, organizational, and community) to mental wellness among Black youth and developing novel interventions to reduce suicide.
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Dr. Zarwell is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Sciences and the Director of Preventive Health projects at the Academy for Population Health Innovation (APHI). Her expertise includes HIV prevention, sexual and gender minority health, community-engaged research, and implementation science.
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Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Bahamón is a Teaching Associate Professor of Computer Science. His expertise includes Artificial Intelligence, Digital Games, Mixed Reality and Computer Science Education, particularly the use of gamification to develop innovative pedagogies.
Dr. Ricciutti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling. She has expertise in addiction counseling and how substance use can both lead to and stem from violent situations. She also developed the Community Readiness Instrument (CRI) to determine readiness to address systemic substance use and provide communities with guidance toward creating successful change efforts.
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External Collaborators
Rachel Jackson-Gordon, Ph.D.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champain
Family Resiliency Center