Shamus Khan | Understanding Sexual Violence on a College Campus

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 11:30am

UMass Amherst | Thompson 919 - Rossi Room

Shamus Khan

Understanding Sexual Violence on a College Campus

The Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) is one of the most comprehensive studies of sexual violence within a community. Taking two year and drawing upon surveys, diaries, focus groups, interviews, and embedded ethnography, SHIFT is an attempt to systematically and scientifically understand sexual violence, and propose community transformations that can help address and reduce it. In this talk Shamus Khan draws upon the SHIFT project to think through how we might better make sense of sexual violence on campus and beyond, and what we might do to create healthier communities.

Shamus Khan is a professor and chair of sociology at Columbia University. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School (Princeton 2011); The Practice of Research (Oxford 2013, with Dana Fisher), and The Exceptional: The Astors, Elite New York, and the Story of American Inequality (Princeton, forthcoming). He recently served as an opinion columnist for Time Magazine and continues to write in the popular press.