Walter DeKeseredy, Ph.D.
Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. DeKeseredy has published 31 books, over 150 scientific journal articles, and close to 130 scholarly book chapters on violence against women and other social problems. In 2008, the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma gave him the Linda Saltzman Memorial Intimate Partner Violence Researcher Award. He also jointly received the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC) Division on Women and Crime and the 2007 inaugural UOIT Research Excellence Award. In 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice (DCCSJ) and in 2008 the DCCSJ gave him the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, he received the Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences' (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminal Justice and in 2015, he received the Career Achievement Award from the ASC's Division on Victimology (DOV). In 2017, he received the Impact Award from the ACJS’s section on Victimology and the Robert Jerin Book of the Year Award from the ASC’s Division on Victimology. In 2022, he was named an ASC Fellow, received the Praxis Award from the DCCSJ, and received the 2022 Robert Jerin Book Award from the ASC’s DOV. In 2023, he received the Ralph Weisheit Lifetime Achievement award from the ASC’s Division on Rural Criminology.
Selected Publications
Gehring, K., Merken, S., Lenning, E., & DeKeseredy, W.S. (Eds.). (2024). Criminological Understandings of Horror Films: Reel Fear. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books.
DeKeseredy, W.S., Cowan, S., & Schwartz, M.D. (2023). Skating on Thin Ice: Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, & Violence Against Women. Toronto: AEVO University of Toronto Press. This is one of the Hill Times’ Best 100 Canadian Books of 2023. The Hill Times is Canada’s leading politics and government news source.
Freeman, M., DeKeseredy, W.S., Moberly, E., Currence, B., & Haring, J. (2024). “Suffering in deafening silence”: Suicide ideation and attempted suicide in the lives of incarcerated rural West Virginia girls. The Prison Journal, 104(4), 411-427.
Hayes, B.E., DeKeseredy, W.S., & Nolan, J. (2024). People with Disabilities and violent victimization in the heartland: Results from the first phase of the West Virginia Community Quality of Life Survey. International Journal of Rural Criminology, 8(2), 168-186.
DeKeseredy, W.S. (2023). “If I had to do it again…”: A response to my colleagues’ commentaries. International Journal of Rural Criminology, 8, 139-144.
DeKeseredy, W.S. (2024). Misogyny and woman abuse in the incelosphere: The role of online incel male peer support. In J.B. Walther & R.E. Rice (Eds.), Social processes of online hate (pp. 73-92). London, UK: Taylor & Francis.
DeKeseredy, W.S. (2024). Separation and divorce violence against women. In K.A. Bogle (Eds,), Gender-based crime: Learning through experts and cases (pp. 197-210). San Diego: Cognella.
Courses Taught
SOCA 493A: SPTP: Violence Against Women