Angie Kennedy

Angie Kennedy
  • Professor
  • Associate Director for Research
  • MSU School of Social Work
  • Center for Gender in Global Context

CURRICULUM VITAE

Angie Kennedy

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Angie C. Kennedy is a Professor and the Associate Director for Research in the School of Social Work at MSU; she is also a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Gender in Global Context. She earned her BA in psychology from Grinnell College, and her PhD in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and scholarship are grounded in an intersectional feminist approach and focus on interpersonal violence. She is especially interested in partner violence, cumulative victimization (i.e., experiences with multiple kinds of violence over time), and the ways that social and economic forces shape victimization and related outcomes, such as mental health, stigma, educational attainment, and economic well-being; she has expertise in examining victimization among adolescents and young adults, particularly among those who are poor or otherwise marginalized. Dr. Kennedy draws on sociological theoretical foundations, including stress process models, stress proliferation, and cumulative disadvantage; stigma theory; and life course theory.

Additionally, she frequently uses the life history calendar (LHC) in her work, a data collection approach developed by sociologists seeking to capture events, transitions, and trajectories across the life course. The LHC yields both qualitative and quantitative data, which Dr. Kennedy analyzes using grounded theory and multilevel modeling, respectively. Beyond  this mixed methods research, she enjoys advancing the study of interpersonal violence via innovative conceptual, theoretical, and methodological contributions.

CURRENT RESEARCH

Using the Life History Calendar to Examine Young Transgender Women's Trajectories of Violence, Mental Health, and Protective Processes. The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences Seeking Civil No Contact Orders. Office of Violence Against Women.

Debt as a Control Tactic in Abusive Marriages: Its Characteristics, Legal Remedies, and Effects. National Science Foundation.

Using the Life History Calendar to Assess IPV, Labeling, Stigma, and Mental Health across Relationships among Young Women. MSU School of Social Work.

PUBLICATIONS

Kennedy, A. C., Prock, K. A., Adams, A. E., Littwin, A., Meier, E., Saba, J., & Vollinger, L. (2024). Can this provider be trusted? A review of the role of trustworthiness in the provision of community-based services for intimate partner violence survivors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 25(2), 982-999.

Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Adams, A. E., Moylan, C. A., & Prock, K. A. (2022). The effects of social location and situational factors on young women’s disclosure of intimate partner violence across relationships. Violence and Victims, 37(1), 44-62.

Kennedy, A. C., Meier, E., & Prock, K. A. (2021). A qualitative study of young women’s abusive first relationships: What factors shape their process of disclosure? Journal of Family Violence, 36(7), 849-864.

Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., Moylan, C. A., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2021). Predictors of sexual violence across young women’s relationship histories. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(11-12), NP5944-NP5964.

Kennedy, A. C., & Prock, K. A. (2018). “I still feel like I am not normal”: A review of the role of stigma and stigmatization among female survivors of child sexual abuse, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 19(5), 512-527.

Kennedy, A. C., Bybee, D., McCauley, H. L., & Prock, K. A. (2018). Young women’s intimate partner violence victimization patterns across multiple relationships. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42(4), 430-444.

Kennedy, A. C., Adams, A., Bybee, D., Campbell, R., Kubiak, S. P., & Sullivan, C. (2012). A model of sexually and physically victimized women’s process of attaining effective formal help over time: The role of social location, context, and intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 50(1-2), 217-228.

ASSOCIATED PROGRAMS

Center for Gender in Global Context