Each year, the DOV presents awards for outstanding performance and service in the field of victimology. The awards are presented during the annual meeting at the ASC conference. Calls for awards are typically made at the beginning of August each year.
The award opportunities include:
This award will be given to a scholar who has made a significant contribution in the area of victimology over the course of their lifetime. This may be in terms of scholarship or teaching.
Nominations must include:
2022 – Dr. Kathleen A. Fox
2021 – Dr. Bradford W. Reyns
2020 – Dr. Emily Wright; Dr. Leah Daigle
2019 – Dr. Catherine Kaukinen
2018 – Dr. Pamela Wilcox
2017 – Dr. Julie C. Abril
2016 – Dr. Callie Rennison
2015 – Dr. Walter DeKeseredy
This award will be given to the author(s) of a book published in the previous five years that has had a major impact on the field of victimology and/or serves to highlight a key issue in the field.
Nominations must include:
2023 – Dr. James Ptacek
Feeling Trapped: Social Class and Violence Against Women
2022 – Dr. Walter DeKeseredy
Woman Abuse in Rural Places
2021 – Dr. Aimee Wodda & Dr. Vanessa R. Panfil
Sex-Positive Criminology
2020 – Dr. Kerstin Braun
Victim Participation Rights: Variation Across Criminal Justice Systems
2019 – Dr. Shelly Clevenger, Dr. Jordana N. Navarro, Dr. Catherine D. Marcum, Dr. George E. Higgins
Understanding Victimology: An Active Learning Approach
2018 – Dr. Bonnie Fisher, Dr. Brad Reyns, & Dr. John Sloan
Introduction to Victimology: Contemporary Theory, Research, and Practice
2017 – Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, Dr. Molly Dragiewicz, & Dr. Martin D. Schwartz
Abusive Endings: Separation and Divorce Violence Against Women
This award will be given to a scholar who has made a significant contribution in the area of victimology in the past 2 years (e.g., peer-reviewed publications or books published in the review period).
Nominations must include:
2023 – Dr. Erica Fissel
2022 – Dr. Brendan Lantz
2021 – Dr. Tara N. Richards
2020 – Dr. Valerie Anderson
2019 – Dr. Chad Posick
2018 – Dr. Eryn O’Neal
2017 – Dr. Brittany E. Hayes
2016 – Dr. Jillian Turanovic
2015 – Dr. Lisa Muftic
2014 – Dr. Christina Mancini
2013 – Dr. Min Xie
This award will be given to a teacher who shows excellence in teaching victimology and/or victimology related courses taught during the past two academic years.
Nomination must include:
2023 – Dr. Lisa Carter
2022 – Dr. Valerie R. Anderson
2021 – Dr. Breanna Boppre
2020 – Dr. Eryn O’Neal
2019 – Dr. L. Susan Williams
2018 – Dr. Jordana Navarro
2017 – Dr. Colby Valentine
2016 – Dr. Shelly Clevenger
2015 – Dr. Deanna Button
2014 – Dr. Alison Marganski
2013 – Dr. Carrie L. Cook
This award will be given to a practitioner or activist who has made a significant impact on the lives of victims or those who work with victims.
Nomination must include:
2023 – Ka’Lyn Coghill
2022 – Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya
2021 – Heather Martin
2020 – Monica Naranjo
2019 – Gregg Martinez: Another Way
2013 – Dr. Rebecca Hayes
Two awards will be given to graduate students who have written an exceptional, published or unpublished, paper on a victimology related topic that was written or published during the past year. Faculty co-authors are allowed; however, the graduate student must be lead/first author and any faculty co-authors must be in an advisory role only.
Graduate student award recipients will receive $300 each. If there are multiple student co-authors on a selected paper, the $300 will be split evenly among them.
Nomination must include:
2023
Caralin Branscum
The wrong rite of passage: Comparing sex trafficking to other types of child maltreatment using the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)
Samantha Tosto
‘She clearly thought that something bad happened to her:’ How military lawyers construct narratives of victim legitimacy and perceived harm in sexual assault cases
2022
Michelle N. Eliasson
A qualitative examination of Swedish police officers’ perceptions of victim culpability
Alexis Marcoux Rouleau
Lessons from insiders: Embracing subjectivity as objectivity in victimology
2021
Kaitlyn Hoover
The relationship between family member incarceration, criminal offending, and victimization
Symone S. Pate
Learning from child welfare case narratives: A directed content analysis of indicators for human trafficking
2020
Mackenzie Kushner
Betrayal trauma and gender: An examination of the victim–offender overlap
Julie Kuper
Adjustment problems in early adulthood among victims of childhood physical abuse: A focus on adolescent risk and protective factors
Katherine Meeker (Honorable Mention)
Policing and prosecuting sexual assault: An examination of arrest and initial filing decisions in cases involving adolescent complainants
2019
Cristal N. Hernandez
The victimization of college students and perceptions of campus safety: A test of Routine Activity Theory
2018
Jennifer Medel
Court-reported protection order violations
Stylianos Syropoulos
The creation and validation of the Perceived Safety Scale
2017
Stephanie Bonnes
The bureaucratic harassment of U.S. servicewomen
2016
Karyn Sporer
Aggressive children with mental illness: A conceptual model of family-level outcomes
2015
Lisa Fedina, Jennifer Homes, & Bethany Backes
Campus sexual assault: A systematic review of prevalence research from 2000-2015
2014
Laura Siller
Individual level determinants, social disorganization theory, and intimate partner violence
2013
Kaitlin Boyle & Ashleigh McKinzie
Resolving the deflection of unwanted sexual experience
The Larry J. Siegel Graduate Fellowship for Victimology Studies (given by the Darald and Julie Libby Foundation) is designed to recognize an exceptional graduate student in the field of victimology. The division will annually give one graduate student a one-time award in the amount of $5,000 to support a project involving original research, program or service development, implementation, and/or evaluation, or advocacy. In order to be eligible, the student must be the leader or principal investigator on the project.
Budget items that will be supported include, but are not limited to, data collection, data purchases, hardware/software purchases, travel (e.g., to archives or for other data collection purposes, to professional development workshops or conferences, etc.), promotional or program materials, office supplies, and/or salary support.
The award will be given based on the following criteria:
In order to be eligible to apply, a graduate student must be:
To apply, please submit the following (#1-4) via email as one PDF:
Items #1 – #2 must total no more than 10 pages, without the cover page.
Award winners will be expected to submit a one-page annual activity statement, no later than November 1st, each year to the division chair until the dissertation is completed.
Any presentations, papers, or printed materials that result from this award must include the following text: “This project was supported by the Larry J. Siegel Graduate Fellowship.”
2023 – Sheena Gilbert
University of Nebraska, Omaha
2022 – Katherine Bright
Rutgers University
2021 – Shon M. Reed
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2020 – Victoria Kurdyla
North Carolina State University
2019 – Ellie Gutowski
Boston College
2018 – Jason B. Phillips
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
2017 – Keith L. Hullenaar
The Pennsylvania State University
2016 – Nili Gesser
Temple University
2015 – Maribeth Rezey
Loyola University, Chicago
2014 – Kristen Hourigan
California State University, Los Angeles