News & Events
“Exploring the use of family health histories in the African American community to reduce health disparities”
Protocol for a randomized controlled trial: Health disparities are costly and preventable differences in disease progression that disproportionately affect minority communities…
“A Community Engaged Approach to the Development of the Social Determinants of Health Solutions Lab”
For the past decade, the concept of the Social Determinants of Health has become popularized in the Social and Health sciences. The ways that communities may need to internalize and adapt…
“Harms of Online Misinformation” Workshop
Join MSUs College of Social Science 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 Adds RCGV Member to Sexual Misconduct Advisory Group
Dr. Karen Holt and Aaron Schroeder bring research, investigative and survivor-centered expertise to the university’s ongoing prevention and response efforts…
RCGV Member Honored for Supporting Survivors of GBV
For nearly four years, a Michigan State University researcher and two Detroit organizations have worked side by side to expand services for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault,…
“The Made-in-Africa Evaluation framework”
A decolonial approach to program evaluation: The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators…
“The New Witch Studies”
Feona Attwood chairs a roundtable discussion of the book with Soma Chaudhuri, Emma Quilty and Jane Ward about their books The Witch Studies Reader and Witch Power…
“Addressing Depression Disparities”
The potential of intersectionality theory and praxis: This chapter provides a review of the literature on the development, course, and outcomes of depression through the lens of intersectionality…
“Use Your Heart”
Promise of a Program to Prevent the Use of Sexual Violence and Promote Positive Youth Development Among Middle School Boys on a Tribal Reservation: Research underscores the epidemic of SV among…
Congrats to the 2026 RCGV Paper Award recipients!
The RCGV paper award recognizes the best undergraduate paper related to gender-based violence. It is impactful research like this that continues to help the GBV movement make positive change!…
RCGV Newsletter: June 2026
We’re happy to welcome you all back to our monthly newsletter and are excited to share with you some of the latest happenings with affiliated faculty and students across the university!…
“Mobilization of Sexual Violence within the Manosphere”
The manosphere, a decentralized network of online communities united by anti-feminist and male supremacist ideologies, has increasingly been recognized as a site of radicalization…
RCGV Newsletter: May 2026
As the Spring 2026 semester ends and we move into the summer, we thought it would be a good time to reach out and share with you the many things that have been going on with RCGV…
Dr. Sarah Prior’s Student Won a 2026 UURAF Award!
One of the students in Dr. Sarah Prior’s Campus Sexual Culture & Consent Lab, Tori Bush, won the Sociology category with “Leading with Joy: Joy in MSU Leadership”.
Predicting Attrition in a Statewide Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Training Program
Sexual assault medical forensic examinations are recommended post-assault health care, but there is a national shortage of specially trained sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs)….
Campus Sexual Culture & Consent Lab: Undergrad Research
These research posters were developed by MSU undergraduate students participating in Dr. Sarah Prior’s Campus Sexual Culture & Consent Lab.
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….