DOV Awards

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 3 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide an explanation and evidence for why the nominee’s lifetime achievements are significant contributions to the discipline of victimology.
  2. An up-to-date vitae for the nominee
Past Winners:

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 2 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide an explanation of why the book should be considered as a key text in the discipline of victimology.
  2. A description of the book and its relevance to the field of victimology 
Past Winners:

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 3 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide explanation and evidence for why the nominee’s research has made significant contributions to the discipline of victimology.
  2. An up-to-date vitae for the nominee 
Past Winners:

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 3 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide explanation and evidence for why the nominee’s teaching is excellent.
  2. Evidence of teaching excellence
    • Evidence of teaching excellence could include (but is not limited to) letters from students or examples of assignments.
Past Winners:

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 2 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide an explanation as to how this practitioner has made a difference in the lives of victims.
  2. Examples of impact on the lives of victims or those who work with victims.
    • Examples of impact can include (but is not limited to) papers/publications, reports, expert testimony, organizational leadership, statements from victims, etc.
Past Winners:

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:

  1. One letter of support (1 to 2 pages)
    • In the letter, the nominator must provide a statement explaining why they believe the paper makes a contribution to the discipline of victimology.
  2. A PDF of the paper 
Past Winners:

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

 

Larry J. Siegel Graduate Fellowship for Victimology Studies

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:

  1. Originality of the proposed project
  2. Potential of the project to inform victimology and crime research, theory, or practice
  3. Feasibility of the proposed project, including the budget and timeline for completion

In order to be eligible to apply, a graduate student must be:

 

  1. Currently enrolled (full- or part-time) in an accredited master’s or doctoral program in the United States (this includes law school)
  2. In good academic standing
  3. Leader or principal investigator on the project
  4. Engaged in a project in the United States on a topic relevant to U.S. victimology and crime or with the United States included in a comparative context (e.g., cross-national research)
  5. If not already a student member of the Division of Victimology, it is expected that the winner will join the Division upon receipt of the award

To apply, please submit the following (#1-4) via email as one PDF:

  1. Description of proposed project (with a cover page), including the following sections:
    • Purpose of project (e.g., statement of problem/issue),
    • Background (e.g., literature review, need for project),
    • Goals/objectives (e.g., what will be accomplished, potential limitations of project),
    • Implementation plan, including methodology if research focused, and
    • Deliverables (e.g., dissertation, presentation, services, webinar, etc.)
  2. Proposed budget, justification for budget items, and project timeline,
  3. Current curriculum vita,
  4. Transcript from current institution, and
  5. Letter of nomination from at least one permanent, full-time faculty member at the student’s current institution.
    • Note: Faculty members should send their letters directly via email.

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