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Desire Anastasia, Ph.D.
Desiré J.M. Anastasia, Ph.D. Education Areas of Interest
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Desiré J.M. Anastasia received her Ph.D. in sociology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in September 2008. Before attaining her doctoral degree, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences: Law & Society from Michigan State University in East Lansing in December 1999, and her Master of Liberal Arts in Women’s Studies from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti in August 2001. Her areas of specialization include sociology of the body, body modification, gender inequality, domestic violence and sexual assault, social control, deviance, feminist theory, and feminist research methods. She has taught Women’s Studies courses at both Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and San Diego State University as well as Sociology courses at both Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and the University of San Diego. She has also been a grant writer for the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology in San Diego, a Research Director for a social marketing company in downtown San Diego, and a graduate assistant for the Graduate School at Wayne State University, the Women’s Studies Department at Eastern Michigan University, and the Holman Learning Center at Eastern Michigan University. Desiré has given more than a dozen conference presentations about her research at the local, regional, and national level in both the U.S. and in Canada. In addition to her sociological and phenomenological dissertation on extensively tattooed women, her research has included an analysis of theoretical perspectives on same-sex domestic violence as well as female violence against men, a statistical analysis of survivors of domestic violence in San Diego County, and content analyses of educational television programs on tattoos. |
