Dr. Juliana Carlson awarded 2023 Suzanne and Harry Statland Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship

To acknowledge outstanding contributions in our School to the advancement of science and knowledge through scholarship and research, we are proud to announce that this year’s Suzanne and Harry Statland Award recipient is Dr. Juliana Carlson.

Juliana’s scholarship focuses on preventing gender-based violence and promoting gender equity, specifically by increasing men in such efforts. Juliana’s philosophical approach to research is anti-racist, intersectional, and interdisciplinary. Her extensive partnerships with multiple university colleagues and local, regional, national, and international organizations have led to a productive and meaningful community-engaged scholarship program.

Several recent research accomplishments of Juliana’s include:

• facilitating more than a dozen focus groups and interviewing over 40 individuals for multiple studies,
• serving as Principal Investigator for the Quality Improvement Center on Domestic Violence and Child Welfare, which is a multi-million-dollar grant with the US Children’s Bureau, 
• And an ongoing research partnership with KU’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center, fund in part by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment

In addition to these accomplishments, her contribution to the development of Centering Racial Equity in Collaboration scale exhibits Juliana’s efforts to integrate her anti-racist philosophy into community-engaged research and scholarship. Developed in collaboration with community partners and other School faculty colleagues, this newly developed measure can be used to guide collaborative initiatives toward practicing racial equity. What’s being learned from developing and using this new measure has been widely disseminated at multiple national and international conferences and is currently in use in several of the School’s federal, state, and local research projects.