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Dr. Michelle D. Hand is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work. Her research focuses on empowerment building approaches to address sexual violence and trauma among at-risk non-dominant populations, including in later life. Thus, she studies causes and impacts of violence and trauma as well as arts- and horticulture-based interventions (e.g., community gardens, farms and murals) to support healing, informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and clinical experience.��Dr. Hand’s work has been published in several scholarly journals as well as in books, and has been presented at various national and international conferences, including at Harvard Law School’s��"Just Food?" Forum.��She welcomes multi-level transdisciplinary collaboration in her community-based research.

In Dr. Hand’s justice-oriented, strengths-based and trauma-informed teaching, she emphasizes anti-racism, diverse practice knowledge, evidence-based strategies to address violence and trauma, as well as potential impacts of discrimination on policy development and implementation.��Her research, teaching and service efforts have been informed by her (urban and rural) clinical, medical and school-based social work experience (including with the LGBTQ+ community, new immigrants and refugees) and have been recognized at local and national levels.

Research

Select Publications

• Hand, M. D., Lee, M., Dabelko-Schoeny, H., Kaiser, M. & Mengo, C. (in press). Societal, organizational, relational and individual perceptions of sexual violence against older adults and its prevention: A systematic scoping review. The Gerontologist. [Impact Factor: 3.286]

• Hand, M. D. (2020). The use of autobiographical poetry to process trauma, promote awareness and shift views on sexual violence: Exploring the “Against Our Will” campaign. Violence Against Women, 1-30. [Impact Factor: 1.558]

• Kaiser, M., Hand, M. & Pence, E. (2020). Individual and community engagement in response to environmental challenges experienced in four urban neighborhoods. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(6), 1-21. [Impact Factor: 2.849]

• Hand, M. D. (2019). Every three seconds: A review of an innovative documentary on research and stigma surrounding dementia across the globe. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 62(3), 369-373. [Impact Factor: .99]

• Hand, M. D. & Kaiser, M. L. (2018). Promoting community food security and empowerment among��Somali Bantu refugees: A case for community kitchen gardens. International Journal of Business, Human and Social Sciences, 12(8), 1073 - 1078. [Impact Factor: .876]��

• Kaiser, M., Rogers, C., Hand, M., Hoy, C. & Stanich, N. (2017). Finding our direction: The process of building our community-university food mapping team. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 9(2), 19-33. [31-49% acceptance rate]

• Park, J., Lee, K., Hand, M., Anderson, K. & Schleitwiler, T. (2016). Korean survivors of the Japanese “comfort women” system: Understanding the lifelong consequences of early life trauma. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 59(4), 1-28. [Impact Factor: .99]

• Kaiser, M. L., Williams, M. L., Basta, N., Hand, M. & Huber, S. (2015). When vacant lots become urban gardens: Characterizing the perceived and actual food safety concerns of urban agriculture in Ohio. Journal of Food Protection, 78(11), 2070-2080. [Five-Year Impact Factor: 1.765]

• Sweeney, G., Hand, M., Kaiser, M., Clark, J., Rogers, C., & Spees, C. (2015). The state of food mapping: Academic literature since 2008 and review of on-line GIS-based food mapping resources. Journal of Planning Literature, 31(2), 1-97. [Five-Year Impact Factor: 3.982]

Honors and Awards

• Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE) Teaching in Social Work Award, GADE, 2019–2020
• 2019-2020 Doctoral Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, The Ohio State University College of Social Work, 2019–2020
• College of Social Work Alumni Scholarship, The Ohio State University College of Social Work Alumni Board, 2019–2020
• 2016-2017 Doctoral Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, The Ohio State University College of Social Work, 2016–2017
• The Selma and Alexander W. Erlen Award for Excellent Service, ����AV and Scholarship, The Ohio State University College of Social Work, 2016–2017
• 2015-2016 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Ohio State Nominee, The Ohio State University, Nominated in 2016
• Workshop on Panel Design and Analysis featuring the Polish Panel Survey from 1988- 2013 (POLPAN) International Travel Scholarship, The Ohio State University, 2013
• The Dodie Thomas Memorial Scholarship, The Ohio State University College of Social Work, 2009–2010

Affiliations��

• Member, Council on Social Work Education, https://www.cswe.org/
• Member, Gerontological Society of America, https://www.geron.org/
• Member, National Association of Social Workers, https://www.socialworkers.org/
• Member, Society for Social Work and Research, https://secure.sswr.org/��

Degrees

• PhD, Social Work, The Ohio State University
• Master of Social Work (M.S.W.), Social Work, The Ohio State University
• Bachelor of Science in Social Work (B.S.S.W.), Social Work; Minor in Studio Art, The Ohio State University