Robin Robinson

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Robin Robinson, PhD, PsyD

Professor Emerita

Sociology / Anthropology

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508-999-8788

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Education

Brandeis University, Heller SchoolPhD
George Washington UniversityPsyD

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Continuation of research and writing of the dissertation. The dissertation must be an original and crucial contribution to the field of educational leadership and policy studies. Such intellectual exegesis is completed under the supervision of the dissertation committee chair/advisor and members. After approval of the dissertation by the committee, the student will proceed to the defense.

Research

Research activities

  • Current project: Nuffield Foundation. Women working to support women in the welfare sphere: psychosocial challenges

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Robin A. Robinson is Professor Emerita of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She earned a PhD in Social Policy from Brandeis University and a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from George Washington University. Her research combines psychoanalytic theory and critical and feminist criminologies in the study of trauma, criminality, and social control of women and girls.

Her current work, with a research team at the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge (UK) and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigates psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on women workers who provide — through non-governmental, non-profit organizations — frontline services to women and girls marginalized by racism, poverty, violence, homelessness, and other social ills, in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. "Women Working to Support Women in the Welfare Sphere: Psychosocial Challenges" is a 20-month, interdisciplinary and intersectional study of over 500 organizations to probe the traumagenic effects of such labor amidst a prolonged crisis that is disproportionately affecting women.

As a Fulbright Research Scholar, Professor Robinson co-led the project entitled, “Beyond Obstacles, Toward Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Hungary,” which examined underreporting and under-prosecution of rape and other sexual violence in the central European nation, working with colleagues at the National Institute of Criminology of Hungary.

Robin's other work extends to psychosocial analyses of literature and social histories of women and crime, including an extended study of British women convicts transported to the American colonies, and the laws, policies, practices, and collusion that enforced their role as reproductive labor. Deeply committed to scholarship and praxis, she has also received many other grants in support of research and scholarship in areas such as vicarious trauma and anti-violence workers, girls and violence, and teen relational violence, to combine theoretical research with extensive community engagement.

She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research and a Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center Scholar. Other selected research appointments include the Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester School of Law; Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology; and Visiting International Scholar at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.

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