Susan DiVietro, PhD is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut and a training consultant for the Domestic Violence Professional Education and Consultation Project at Saint Francis Hospital.  She has a longstanding interest in gender, health, violence, and sexuality, and her doctoral research focused on domestic violence and social support in various communities throughout CT.  She has been involved in many anthropological research projects on a range of topics including: healing workshops with recently incarcerated domestic violence victims, women's sexuality over the life course, and sexual decision-making processes among African Americans and Latinos living in Hartford.  Her recent work brings anthropological research methods to the implementation of domestic violence screening programs. In her teaching, she uses anthropological theories to enhance links between curriculum and student experience.  She continually pursues creative teaching strategies while helping students develop skills necessary to evaluate, synthesize, and analyze material.

Publications:

• DiVietro, Susan (in prep). “Domestic Violence Interventions by Friends and Family: Barriers and Cultural Models in a Vignette-Based Ethnographic Study.” Current Anthropology.
• DiVietro, Susan, Kiper, Jordan, and Benjamin Purzycki. (in prep). “I Know I Should, but I Wouldn't: Evolved Moral Cognition and Its Application in Domestic Violence Interventions.” Evolutionary Psychology.

Presentations:

• DiVietro, Susan. “Bridging Health Care and Domestic Violence Care: A Collaborative Training Model for Screening and Referral.” Poster to be presented at the National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence, San Francisco CA, 2012
• DiVietro, Susan. “But What Can I Do? Domestic Violence and Cultural Models of Interventions.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, 2010.
• DiVietro, Susan. “Why Deterrents to Violence Don’t Work and What Can be Done about It.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Applied Anthropology, Washington, DC, 2007.
• DiVietro, Susan. “Sex and Violence Revisited: A New Look at Power and Agency in the Survivors of Domestic Abuse.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, 2005.
• DiVietro, Susan. “What’s Missing: Cultural Incompetence in the Delivery of Health Care for Young Women’s Sexual Health.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Applied Anthropology, Dallas, TX, 2004.
• DiVietro, Susan. “Fitness Benefits of Prostitution in St. Lucia, West Indies.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 2002
  

• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, University of Connecticut 2010
• University of Connecticut, Dean’s Fund Graduate Fellowship 2010
• University of Connecticut Graduate School, Summer Fellowship 2004
• Outstanding Scholar Award, University of Connecticut 2000-2003
• University of Connecticut Graduate School, Summer Fellowship 2003, 2002, 2001
• Presidential Scholar Award, Lehigh University 1999