Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Alesha Durfee is the Associate Director of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She received a PhD in Sociology and completed a post-doc in Social Work at the University of Washington. Her research, teaching, and service focus on domestic and intimate partner violence, with a specialization in legal interventions in cases of DV and IPV. She also teaches quantitative and mixed methods at the PhD level. Her work has been published in journals such as Crime & Delinquency, Gender & Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Violence Against Women, Politics & Society, Global Public Health, Feminist Criminology, and Feminist Teacher. She has received several grants to fund her research on protection orders, including a Researcher-Practitioner partnership grant from the National Institute of Justice (with the National Center for State Courts and Mesa Municipal Court) to identify and analyze institutional and contextual factors that influence the protection order decision-making and processing, and a National Science Foundation grant (with Dr. Jill Messing) to understand legal mobilization among domestic violence survivors, including the decision to file for a protection order, how domestic violence survivors perceive the legal system, and the costs and benefits of filing an order for survivors. She has collected and analyzed both primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data. In 2012 she was a distinguished nominee for ASU Professor of the Year. She has also been named a "Badass Woman of ASU" (HERstory 2018), received the Monalee Ewing Naming and Claiming Women's Space Award, was a Distinguished Mentor for ASU CLAS, was honored by inclusion in the Hands of Change calendar, and is the President-Elect of the Faculty Women's Association for ASU. She has also worked as a domestic violence advocate for the Seattle Police Department's Victim Support Team, providing crisis services to survivors at crime scenes.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Domestic and Family Violence

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Formerly incarcerated victims, LGBTQ victims, Male victims generally, Older victims, Immigrants and refugees

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance