Lindsay Gezinski

Associate Professor

University of Utah

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Location: Salt Lake CityUT

Educational Degree(s):
• PhD

Discipline: Social Work

Years of Experience: 11-20 years

Victimization Focus

• Campus Sexual Assault
• Other Campus Crime
• Child Trafficking and Exploitation
• Computer/Cyber/Internet Crimes
• Dating Violence (Teen)
• Domestic and Family Violence
• Sexual Abuse or Violence
• Trafficking in Persons (Labor)
• Trafficking in Persons (Sex)

Special Populations

• American Indian and Alaska Native (tribal) victims
• Formerly incarcerated/justice-involved
• Homeless/housing insecure
• Immigrants or refugees
• LGBTQ
• Rural
• Urban
• Women and girls, generally

Victim Research Expertise

• Action research
• Community-based participatory research
• Data collection
• Descriptive studies
• Needs assessment
• Program evaluation
• Qualitative studies
• Quantitative studies

Additional Research Expertise

• Action research
• Community-based participatory research
• Data collection
• Descriptive studies
• Ethnography
• Needs assessment
• Program evaluation
• Qualitative studies
• Quantitative studies
• Quasi-experimental studies
• Randomized controlled trial
• Training and/or technical assistance

About the Researcher

Dr. Lindsay Gezinski (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program at the University of Utah. Formerly, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on gender-based violence, human trafficking, and intimate labor domestically and internationally. Dr. Gezinski's primary research stream investigates the intersectional vulnerabilities, consequences, and mezzo/macro responses associated with gender-based violence and human trafficking among often marginalized and criminalized populations. This includes investigation of system-level factors that affect intimate partner violence survivors’ safety, health, and well-being post-exit. Overall, this research contributes to understanding the intersections of violence, power dynamics, social systems, and support mechanisms that influence the well-being of vulnerable and marginalized populations. Her current grant-funded projects center housing, substance use, and sexual health among survivors of human trafficking. Dr. Gezinski is a mixed methodologist with expertise in qualitative research methodologies, skilled at collaborating with community partners and those with lived experience. Recent scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Family Violence, Violence Against Women, and the Journal of Human Trafficking. As an award-winning educator, she has taught core curriculum courses across social work degree programs, primarily in the areas of social welfare policy and community organizing. Dr. Gezinski earned her PhD in Social Work and Graduate Minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2011. She holds an MSW and MA in Public Policy and Management, also from OSU.