Empowerment Self-Defense

Associate Professor (Research) at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a Staff Psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. She completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Ohio University, where she studied under the apprenticeship of Dr. Christine A. Gidycz in the Laboratory for the Study and Prevention of Sexual Assault. In concert with collaborators, she has published three prior evaluations of sexual assault prevention programs for college women (Gidycz et al., 2006; Orchowski et al., 2008; Gidycz et al., 2015), as well as prevention approaches for college men (Orchowski et al., 2018; Gidycz et al., 2011), and has authored work on the implementation of sexual assault prevention programs for men (Gidycz et al., 2011), and the supervision of such work (Orchowski et al., 2011). As a Principal Investigator, she completed a NIAAA-funded research examining sexual assault prevention with college men, and is currently the Principal Investigator of two CDC-funded evaluations of sexual assault prevention, risk reduction, and bystander intervention programming among high school and middle school students, and a Department of Defense Funded evaluation of sexual assault prevention for men in the military. She has previously published Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance: Theory, Research and Practice with Elsevier, as well as Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theory, Research and Practice with American Psychological Association.

Dr. Jocelyn Hollander is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. For the past 20 years, her research has focused on the effectiveness of empowerment self-defense training for preventing gender-based violence, as well as its potential to empower women and challenge inequalities. She is the author of articles on these topics in Gender & Society, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Revue des Sciences Sociales, Sociology Compass, Violence Against Women, Feminism & Psychology, as well as in the volume Sexual Assault Risk Reduction and Resistance, edited by Lindsay Orchowski and Christine Gidycz. In addition, Professor Hollander has taught empowerment self-defense for over 30 years, including at Stanford University and the University of Oregon.