Rebecca Beebe has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 2000. Rebecca completed her PhD in December of 2010. Her dissertation examined the relationship between community violence exposure in Hartford, CT with the mental health of adolescent boys at the Hartford Juvenile Detention Center.

Rebecca’s teaching focuses around examining the assumptions we make about our own lives and the lives of others; and challenges students to critique how those assumptions may affect our behavior. Rebecca emphasizes embracing cultural relativism and respecting the different ways of living around the world.

• Beebe, R. F., DiVietro, S. C., Dunn, M., Bentivegna, K., Clough, M. E., Lapidus, G. D., & Joseph, D. K. (2017). Establishing the Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Among Hair Salon Clients. Journal of Community Health, 1–8.
• Corrigan, C., DiVietro, S., Campbell, B., Rogers, S., Beebe, R., Clough, M., & Lapidus, G. (2016). Trends in fatal pediatric injury. Connecticut Medicine, 80(9), 517–524.
• DiVietro, S., Beebe, R., Clough, M., Klein, E., Lapidus, G., & Joseph, D. (2016). Screening at hair salons: The feasibility of using community resources to screen for intimate partner violence. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 80(2), 223–228.
• DiVietro, S., Beebe, R., Grasso, D., Green, C., Joseph, D., & Lapidus, G. D. (2018). A Dual Method Approach To Identifying Intimate Partner Violence Within A Level 1 Trauma Center. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Publish Ahead of Print.
• Lapidus, G., Borrup, K., Divietro, S., Campbell, B. T., Beebe, R., Grasso, D., … Banco, L. (2016). Practical applications of injury surveillance: A brief 25-year history of the Connecticut injury prevention center. Injury Prevention, 22, i12–i16.
• Beebe, R. Clough, M. Bentivegna, K., DiVietro, S., Lapidus, G. (Currently under review at Prevention Science). Intimate Partner Violence Police Reporting Forms: A National Review of Current Practice

Presentations:

• Beebe, Rebecca.  "A culture of Violence among a Detention Population." Society for Applied Anthropology, 2007.
• Beebe, Rebecca.  "Another World Just Minutes from Your Home: Cultural Normalization of Violence and Some Implications for Diagnosis and Therapy."  American Anthropology Association Meetings, 2010.

• Spring 2001 Burroughs Fellowship, Fall 2000.
• Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from The University of Connecticut Department of Anthropology, Spring 2006.
• Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from The University of Connecticut Graduate School, Summer 2010.