Periodically, we will be featuring blog posts on our Inside Higher Ed column (and republished here) about sexual violence in higher education. We received many submissions to our call for blog posts on the topic, ranging from personal experiences to teaching about and doing research on sexual violence, from critiques of how universities facilitate sexual violence to recommendations for structural and cultural changes on campuses. Through this series, we aim to amplify the voices of survivors of sexual violence that occurs in academic contexts, to aggravate the academic status quo that facilitates sexual violence, and to advocate for meaningful change in classrooms, research, departments, and at conferences.
We will continue to log new blog posts here as the series proceeds in case you are unable to keep up, and so that you can refer back to the entire series in the future.
- Introductory blog post, “Amplifying the Voices of Sexual Violence Survivors” by Eric Anthony Grollman (3/3/17)
- “Listening to Survivors of Sexual Violence” by Eric Anthony Grollman (6/16/17)
Teaching On/And Sexual Violence
- “Teaching Rape Culture” by Cat Pausé (3/10/17)
- “Teaching About Sexuality, Violence and Power” by Jamie L. Small (3/17/17)
- “Responding to Students’ Trauma Disclosures With Empathy” by Marina N. Rosenthal (4/7/17)
- “Talk With Students About Sexual Assault” by Shawn Patrick (4/7/17)
- “Addressing Sexual Violence in Science” by Maggie Hardy (4/14/17)
- “Teaching Trauma While Contingent” by Jeana Jorgensen (12/15/17)
- Related: “It’s a Dangerous Business, Being a Female Professor” by Kristina M.W. Mitchell (7/24/17)
Survivors Navigating Academia
- “Sexual Harassment in Research Abroad” by Kathrin Zippel (3/31/17)
- “Surviving Rape Apologists in the Classroom” by Anonymous (4/21/17)
- “Sexual Violence and Graduate School” by Anonymous (4/28/17)
- “7 Steps You Can Take” (advice to graduate students for dealing with sexual violence) by “Jen Dylan” (5/12/17)
- “When a Professor Is Sexually Harassed by a Student” by Anonymous (5/5/17)
Stalking
- “Stalking on Campus: Safe Walks, Not Security” by Meghan Krausch (7/18/17)
- “10 Tips for a More Humane Workplace” (advice for supporting a colleague who is being stalked) by Meghan Krausch (7/21/17)
- Related: “Ignore at Your Own Risk” (calls for educating colleagues about stalking before it happens) by Anna Sher (7/21/17)
Title IX
- “The Silencing of Sexual Violence Survivors” (regarding nondisclosure agreements [NDAs]) by Sheila Liming (3/24/17)
- “Title IX And Your Legal Counsel” by Sara Matthiesen (6/23/17)
- “Does Title IX Silence Sexual Assault Survivors?” (critique of mandatory reporting) by “Cybill Rights” (6/30/17)
- “How Universities Intensify Gender Violence” published on Zine by Tayler J. Mathews (7/10/17)
Critiques of Campus Policies, Programs, and Culture
- “Raising Strong Women in a Culture of Rape” by Sarah Prior and Brooke de Heer (4/28/17)
- “Sexual Harassment in a Culture of Exploitation” (i.e., graduate school) by “Tara Dorje“
- “My Professor, the Sexual Predator” (departments normalize sexual violence by ignoring it) by Eric Anthony Grollman (5/19/17)
- “Surviving Rape and PTSD in Academe” as a tenure-track professor (critique of department and college’s lack of support and failure to offer necessary accommodations) by Anonymous (5/26/17)
- “Dismantling Rape Culture in College Athletics” by DeWitt Scott (6/9/17)
- “Are Universities Enabling Sexual Harassment and Assault?” by Adia Harvey Wingfield (6/9/17)
- “Adjuncts as Allies?” (argues that the adjunctification of higher education undermines institutions’ ability to support victims of sexual violence) by Alexis Henshaw (6/23/17)
- “#MoreThanHashtags” (a call for concrete changes to university policy in addressing sexual violence on campus) (7/28/17) by Irene Shankar
- “A Sound Prevention Base for Addressing Campus Sexual Violence” by Brian Van Brunt and Amy Murphy (8/4/17)
- “3 Questions Researchers Should Ask About Sexual Violence” by Jessica C. Harris and Chris Linder (11/3/17)
- “Power-Conscious Approaches to Campus Sexual Violence” by Chris Linder and Jessica C. Harris (12/1/17)
Intersectionality and Sexual Violence
- “Navigating Harassment as a Young Black Femme” by “Gabi Jordan” (7/7/17)
- “Breaking the Culture of Silence” (about sexual violence within Black communities) by Manya Whitaker (10/6/17)
- “An Intersectional Framework to Sexual Violence Prevention” by Nadeeka Karunaratne (9/1/17)
- “Supporting LGBTQI Survivors, Part 1” by Jackson Wright Shultz (8/4/17)
- “Supporting LGBTQI Survivors, Part 2” by Jackson Wright Shultz (9/1/17)
- “Sexual Violence Research Must Be LGBTQ Inclusive” by Sarah A. Stephens (10/20/17)
- “Fatphobia and ‘Hogging’ on Campuses” by Jeannine A. Gailey (10/6/17)
- “Intersectionality and Sexual Violence” (teaching about LGBTQ victims) by Jamie J. Hagen (11/3/17)
- “Supporting Queer Survivors of Sexual Violence” by Nicole Bedera and Kristjane Nordmeyer (12/1/17)
- Related: “How Universities Fail Native American Victims of Sexual Assault” by Annita Lucchesi (10/25/17)
- Related: “Still Screaming, But Not Over Nothing” (on rape, PTSD, and disabilities) by Katie Rose Guest Pryal (8/3/17)
You may also be interested in our past blog posts on or related to sexual violence in academia:
- “Planning To March For Science? Bring A Mirror.” by Eric Anthony Grollman (3/1/17)
- “When Your Work Becomes A Facebook Fight” by Nicole Bedera (11/11/16)
- “She Took A Stand Against Rape: My Love Letter To University of Richmond’s Sheroes” by Eric Anthony Grollman (10/26/16)
- “Opposition To ‘Trigger Warnings’ Reinforces The Status Quo” by Eric Anthony Grollman (10/18/16)
- “My University Failed Yet Another Rape Survivor And Protected Yet Another Rapist” by Eric Anthony Grollman (9/8/16)
- “Sexual Violence At The Sociology Conference” by Eric Anthony Grollman (8/31/16)
- “Sexual Violence: What I Have Learned (And Experienced?)” by Eric Anthony Grollman (1/11/14)
- “Academia Is A Warzone” by Eric Anthony Grollman (12/10/13)
- “This Is Not A Pity Party” by Eric Anthony Grollman (10/25/13)
- “A Space For Me In Feminist Activism?” by Eric Anthony Grollman (9/3/13)
- “On Racist And Sexist Discrimination In Academia” by Eric Anthony Grollman (9/2/13)
- “April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month – Are We Aware Yet?” by Eric Anthony Grollman (4/22/13)
- “What Is Sexual Harassment? A Different Perspective” by Eric Anthony Grollman (10/15/12)
- “A Note On The Importance Of Discussing Sexual Violence In The Classroom” by Eric Anthony Grollman (5/14/10)