Faculty/Staff

Jennifer Wies, PhD

Women's Center Women's Center

Location: 1415 Dana Avenue
Mail Location: 7780
Ph: 513-745-3737
Fx: 513-745-3999
 

Other Information:

At Xavier University since: 2007

Degrees: Ph. D.

Jennifer Wies became the first director of the XU Women's Center in 2007. She completed her doctoral education in Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, focusing on applied and medical anthropology.

Her research efforts center on examining structural inequalities that prevent individuals from establishing and maintaining a high quality of life and well-being. To date, she has focused on social movement advocates and activists working in non-profit organizations to understand the grassroots perspectives of human service care work as they articulate with multiple power structures. She possesses a record of presenting papers and workshops at statewide and national professional conferences, as well as experience organizing sessions.

Her research work earned the Society for Applied Anthropology’s Peter K. New Research Paper Competition Award in the applied social and behavioral sciences. Jennifer has taught undergraduate courses in Anthropology and Women's Studies at the introductory and advanced levels. Using a model of empowerment education, she seeks to unite the individual personal and cultural experiences of each student with the principles of anthropology to create an environment that allows students to understand the course material through their own life experiences. In addition, she has provided intimate partner violence intervention services and prevention programming at the University of Kentucky Women's Place, the Bluegrass Domestic Violence Program, the Bluegrass Rape Crisis Center, and the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota.