Jane Palmer
Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Justice, Law & Criminology, American University
- Role
- Faculty Fellow at Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab Peril
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jane Palmer
Jane Palmer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Justice, Law, & Criminology at American University. She has dedicated her career to ending gender-based violence and advancing community-led social justice-oriented initiatives. As a professor, she incorporates experiential and project-based learning into all of her courses. Dr. Palmer has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles on gender-based violence, bystander intervention, and anti-racism in feminist criminology. Her recent work focuses on community-based, survivor-led interventions to end interpersonal and institutional violence.She was recently named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Leader, a grant and fellowship program that supports a three-year community-based research project with her colleague, Dr. Jessica Owens-Young. For this project, Dr. Owens-Young and Dr. Palmer are collaborating with DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Healing Equity United.During the decade she spent as a social worker, she worked with kids in violence prevention; she was a counselor and court advocate for child and adult survivors of intimate partner, sexual, and family violence; and she ran a community-based intervention program for men who had perpetrated domestic violence.
Experience
Faculty Fellow
Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab Peril
May 2025 — Present
Education
Smith College
BA, Sociology
American University
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Creative Writing
American University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Justice, Law and Society (Concentrations: Justice and Public Policy)
2009 — 2013
University of Illinois Chicago
MSW, Social Work
2001 — 2005
Skills
- Violence Prevention
- Volunteer Management
- Policy
- Proposal Writing
- Children, Youth and Families
- Community Organizing
- Program Development
- Higher Education
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Nonprofits
- Quantitative Research
- Sexual Violence
- Grant Writing
- Qualitative Research
- Non-Profits
- Mental Health
- Community Outreach
- Research
- Youth Development
- Grants
- Fundraising
- Social Services
- Higher Education Policy
- Public Speaking
- Crisis Intervention
- Program Evaluation
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