Dr. Kennedy is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. She has been committed to working to end violence against women since the late 1980s, when she first volunteered as a domestic violence advocate as an undergraduate student.
Dr. Kennedy’s work focuses on cumulative victimization and mental health and academic outcomes among adolescents and young adults. She is especially interested in using innovative methods such as the Life History Calendar and multilevel modeling to examine patterns of co-occurring and cumulative victimization over time and across partner relationships; she has expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Currently, she is using a relationship-level approach to examine physical and sexual intimate partner violence within a sample of young women ages 18-24, recruited from three different types of settings: a university, a two-year college, and community-based organizations serving low-income young women.
Selected Publications
- Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2018, November 15). Predictors of sexual violence across young women’s relationship histories. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication: doi: 10.1177/0886260518811439
- Kennedy, A. C., & Prock, K. A. (2018). “I still feel like I am not normal”: A review of the role of stigma and stigmatization among female survivors of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 19, 512-527.
- Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2018, September 11). Young women’s intimate partner violence victimization patterns across multiple relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Advance online publication: doi: 10.1177/0361684318795880
- Kennedy, A. C., & Adams, A. E. (2016). The effects of cumulative violence clusters on young mothers’ school participation: Examining attention and behavior problems as mediators. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 31, 1293-1307.
- Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., & Greeson, M. R. (2015). Intimate partner violence and homelessness as mediators of the effects of cumulative childhood victimization clusters on adolescent mothers’ depression symptoms. Journal of Family Violence, 30, 579-590.
- Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., & Greeson, M. R. (2014). Examining cumulative victimization, community violence exposure, and stigma as contributors to PTSD symptoms among high-risk young women.American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84, 284-294.
- Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Kulkarni, S. J., & Archer, G. (2012). Sexual victimization and family violence exposure among urban, African American adolescent women: Do violence cluster profiles predict partner violence victimization and sex trade exposure?Violence Against Women, 18, 1319-1338. [Selected as one of the top articles in VAW for 2012.]
- Kennedy, A. C., Adams, A., Bybee, D., Campbell, R., Kubiak, S. P., & Sullivan, C. (2012). A model of sexually and physically victimized women’s process of attaining effective formal help over time: The role of social location, context, and intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 50, 217-228.
