Associate Professor
University at Buffalo
Noelle M. St. Vil is an Associate Professor in the UB School of Social Work. Dr. St. Vil’s community-based research focuses on supporting positive Black intimate relationships, with the aim of strengthening Black families and communities. Her research challenges scholarship that ignores systemic oppression, pathologizes, victim-blames, and stereotypes Black intimate relationships. Dr. St. Vil’s work highlights the disproportionate risks and dangers faced in Black intimate relationships but looks at these risks and dangers through a lens that is critical of historical and structural racism and affirming of Black resilience. Her scholarship concentrates on two dimensions of Black intimate relationships: 1) Violence Against Women; and 2) sexual behavior, health, and well-being. She has published over 30 articles and seven book chapters. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a University at Buffalo, Gender Institute Grant titled, “An Investigation of Black Americans’ Experiences and Perceptions of High-Risk Domestic Violence. She is a co-investigator on a study aiming to develop culturally specific sexual assault intervention preventions for Black college women. She is also a co-investigator on a grant funded by the MacArthur Foundation to assess the intersection of intimate partner violence and gun violence. Her long-term goal is to create prevention interventions that strengthen Black male-female relationships.
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