Contact
If you have any questions about the study or how to get involved, please email us at
POWER-Study@uwm.edu or call us at (414) 395-0797.
Principal Investigators
Dr. Ryan Shorey, he/him
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Shorey is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses on the ways in which alcohol use increases risk for unwanted experiences, such unwanted experiences in intimate and sexual relationships. Dr. Shorey is particularly interested in examining alcohol use and unwanted experiences in LGBTQ+ people in order to gain information to create LGBTQ+ affirming interventions and reduce the health disparities that LGBTQ+ people face. To do this work, Dr. Shorey collaborates with LGBTQ+ community organizations to ensure his research is inclusive and affirming.
Dr. Gregory Stuart, he/him
Affiliation: University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Dr. Stuart is a professor of clinical psychology and Director of Clinical Training at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Stuart’s program of research has a particular emphasis on the role of substance use in intimate partner violence perpetration and victimization. His work addresses a broad spectrum of factors that are relevant to the etiology, classification, assessment, prevention, maintenance, and treatment of intimate partner violence and substance misuse. His work has focused on young adults, people in treatment for substance use, people in batterer intervention programs, LGBTQ+ people, and numerous other populations. Dr. Stuart has received numerous awards for mentoring, teaching, and research from the University of Tennessee and other professional organizations.
Dr. Katie Edwards, she/her
Affiliation: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Katie Edwards, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln where she directs the Interpersonal Violence Research Laboratory. Using community-based participatory action research, Dr. Edwards seeks to answer two questions in her work: (1) How do we prevent sexual and related forms of violence? and (2) How do we most effectively support survivors in the aftermath of violent victimization? Much of Dr. Edwards work focuses on minoritized populations, specifically Native American/Indigenous youth and families as well as LGBTQIA2S+ youth. Dr. Edwards highly values community leadership in developing and evaluating (including the use of decolonized research approaches) strengths-focused, culturally grounded initiatives to prevent and respond to sexual and related forms of violence. To date, she has published more than 200 peer reviewed journal articles, and over the past 10 years has accrued over 23 million dollars in funding for her research. In her free time, Dr. Edwards enjoys traveling, watching true crime shows, and spending time with her wife (Emily) and their three rescue cats (Penny, Betty, and Billy).
Dr. Shira Dunsiger, she/her
Affiliation: Brown University
Dr. Dunsiger is currently an Associate Professor (Research) in the Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from Brown University and completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular behavioral medicine. Her research focus is on developing sophisticated statistical methodology for analyzing data from behavioral medicine, including smoking cessation, physical activity, mood, depression, violence and adherence outcomes. Her broad research interests include pattern detection, “big data”, and statistical mediation.
Research Coordinator
Callie Cade, she/her
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Callie is working as a research coordinator for the Intimate Relationships lab at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Callie graduated from the University of Michigan, earning a B.A. with honors in Psychology. She is interested in how personal identities, such as gender and race, impact how people interact, as well as how implicit biases might affect political formation and courtroom behavior. In her free time, Callie enjoys going on (slow) runs and trying to complete her yearly reading challenge.