News & Events

Celebrate Undergraduate Research Week at MSU’s UURAF Conference!
Several of Dr. Sarah Prior’s students from the Campus Sexual Culture Lab will be presenting at the conference. The 28th annual UURAF will be held Friday, April 17, 2026 at the Breslin Center and online…

“We Live Day by Day Now”
Sextortion is a form of image-based sexual abuse in which an offender threatens to distribute a victim’s intimate, sexual images, videos, or information unless…

“Gender and Space in the Early Modern World” Workshop
Join MSUs Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) for a workshop on “Gender and Space in the Early Modern World” taking place on Monday, March 30th from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at 255 Old Horticulture…

MSU Media Training Workshop
Faculty members and administrators at MSU who are interested in sharing their research, news or expertise with the public are invited to participate in upcoming media training workshops…

“Negotiating with Intersectional Consciousness”
The article explores how grassroots women leaders in Gujarat, India, enact intersectional consciousness, the strategic deployment of intersecting identities…

“Witch Hunts Everywhere”
The time for witch studies is now. This special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies arrives at a historical juncture in which the figure of the witch, whether invoked in literal accusations…

“Administrative Violence”
Accounts of structural violence characterize the institutional and bureaucratic production of systematic population-level harms as violence while also construing these…

“Latent Class Analyses of Bystander Strategies Against Campus Sexual Assault and Dating Violence”
Despite the proliferation of bystander intervention education in campus gender-based violence prevention programming, little research has explored the constellation…

“Intimate Partner Violence and Male Survivors’ Help-Seeking”
This study identifies distinct patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) polyvictimization among male survivors and examines the relationships between these patterns and…

“To See and Be Seen”
Jurisdictions throughout the USA have begun addressing backlogs of previously untested sexual assault kits. Based on new forensic DNA testing, decades-old cold cases are now…

“Campus climate factors associated with the likelihood of experiencing sexual assault in college”
This study explored the association between campus sexual assault victimization and campus characteristics (e.g., enrollment size), student behavioral climate (e.g., binge drinking),…

“Will you be there for me?”
If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing…

“When My Past Came Back to Me”
This study examines mothers’ decisions to disclose past experiences of sexual assault to their children. These survivors
reported their assaults to the police years ago, but no action was taken in their cases. When…

GenCen Visiting Scholars
GenCen Visiting Scholars We are thrilled to link up with MSU’s Center for Gender in the Global Context to help host two scholars from the University of Botswana: Dr. Portia Loeto – Gender Studies Dr….

“The Loop” Podcast: Out Now!
“The Loop” Podcast: Out Now! We are happy to announce that RCGV member, Dr. Heather McCauley, has recently released a new project! Dr. McCauley and her team have spent the last few years working with an organization…