Walter Steven DeKeseredy (born March 6, 1959)[1] is the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at West Virginia University, where he is also director of the Research Center on Violence and professor of sociology.
Walter DeKeseredy | |
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Born | Walter Steven DeKeseredy March 6, 1959 |
Known for | Research on violence against women |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Criminology |
Institutions | Carleton University West Virginia University |
Thesis | Woman abuse in dating relationships: The role of male peer support (1988) |
He received his Ph.D. from York University in 1988, and formerly taught at Carleton University.[2][3] He is known for his research on violence against women, which he has been studying for more than thirty years.[4] In particular, he is known for studying the role of threats to masculinity in male violence against women.[5][6]