schivers@wsu.edu
Teaching at WSU Vancouver

Sarah Chivers

BS, Kansas State University, 2000
MA, Washington State University, 2002

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Current Research Interests: I am currently completing my dissertation.
In it, I address three major gaps in research on intimate partner violence. 1) I examine variance in the reporting of intimate partner violence among three diverse groups of low income women: Latinas born in the US, Latinas born outside of the US, and white women born in the US. 2) I consider sociocultural differences that produce differences in IPV victimization rates among these groups of women. 3) I assess whether the widely used Conflict Tactics Scale II (Strauss) is an appropriate survey tool to use in assessing IPV among diverse groups of women, particularly whether the CTS as a valid and reliable tool should be used by researchers to assess IPV risks among minority populations.

Recent Publications:

Forthcoming, Fall 2007 with Jolene Smyth. Challenging Our Textbooks and Our Teaching: How We Reproduce Covert Racism. In Rodney Coates edited volume on covert racism.