About
From a crisis hotline to a research lab.
Julie Sriken, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Regis University in Denver, CO. Her research explores how people give meaning to lived experiences of violent victimization and how people collectively make sense of what constitutes violence.
Biography
The motivation for her research and her teaching is the goal of challenging epistemic injustice. This is the idea that one of the problems of social inequality is that some people have fewer resources to make sense of important life experiences. As such, Dr. Sriken’s work focuses on the ways social structure and culture influence the way people understand one particularly important life experience: violence.
Dr. Sriken specializes in qualitative and mixed methods research designs. She is especially interested in qualitative interviewing, content analysis, discourse analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis, systematic literature reviews, and conducting research to support nonprofit community partners.
Her research explores how people give meaning to lived experiences of violent victimization and how people collectively make sense of what constitutes violence.
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Before the academy
The research started at a crisis hotline.
Before her doctoral work, Dr. Sriken spent years in direct service in New York City: as a Client Advocate and Rape and Sexual Assault Specialist on Safe Horizon’s 24-hour hotlines program, and as a Crisis Counselor with CAMBA’s Victim Assistance and Rape Crisis Programs in Brooklyn. She later counseled non-traditionally admitted students at Lehman College, CUNY.
The clients she served were predominantly low-income women of color, a fact that had great influence on her counseling and advocacy. Since then, the impact of social structure has shaped the questions Dr. Sriken asks in her research.
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