Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Madelaine Adelman is professor of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her ethnographic research focuses on the politics of domestic violence, and the contested place of gender and sexuality in schools. Adelman co-edited (with Miriam Elman) the volume Jerusalem: Conflict & Cooperation in a Contested City (Syracuse University Press) and authored Battering States: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel (Vanderbilt University Press). Adelman is a former president of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. She is also co-founder of the Phoenix chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and a member of GLSEN's National Board of Directors. Adelman's research toolbox focuses primarily on qualitative data collection and analysis; she has collaborated on mixed-method (i.e. quantitative and qualitative) research data collection and analysis. She has experience as a direct service domestic violence victim-survivor advocate both in the US and in Israel. Adelman also has nonprofit organizational experience with fundraising and development, curriculum development and delivery, strategic planning, capacity building, policy advocacy, policy implementation, volunteer recruitment and retention, event planning, marketing and media relations, etc. as it relates to anti-LGBTQ victimization and discrimination.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Bullying, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence, Hate and Bias Crimes, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault)

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

LGBTQ victims, Immigrants and refugees

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Ethnography, Qualitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Ethnography, Qualitative studies