Biography
Catherine (Katie) Kaukinen, Ph.D., is a professor and chair in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. Her interests include intimate partner violence, long-term consequences of victimization, victim coping, resilience, help-seeking, and decision-making, the history of Title IX and Federal initiatives to address violence against college women, and the evaluation of campus-based violence against women prevention and intervention programs. Her work on developing programs on campus to address violence against women includes over $1 million dollars in funding from the Office on Violence Against Women in which she developed a multi-campus victim service intervention and prevention program addressing dating violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking. She is an award recognized scholar, including the 2020 Coramae Richey Mann Leadership Award from the Minorities and Women Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; 2019 American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award; and 2019 American Society of Criminology Division of Victimology Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Achievement Award. Her research has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, and Violence & Victims, among other outlets.