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Roxanna Ast
Assistant Professor, Social Work and Child Advocacy, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Dickson Hall
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- astr@montclair.edu
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Dr. Roxanna Ast (she/her/او) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy at Montclair State University. Her teaching and research focus on macro social work, structural quality of life, violence prevention, and equity-centered policy.
Her work centers socially marginalized survivors including sexual and gender minorities, forcibly displaced communities, and other structurally marginalized groups often excluded from policy and systems design. She brings over a decade of international and domestic experience supporting survivors of gender-based violence, human trafficking, forced migration, and state violence.
Prior to academia, Dr. Ast served as a gender-based violence prevention researcher for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, collaborating with the CDC and grassroots organizations to address disparities in trauma-informed care. She currently contributes to New Jersey’s Food Security Strategic Plan and serves on the Child Well-Being Research Network. Her work has received several awards including from the Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment as well as the emerging scholar IIDEA (Inclusion, Intersectionality, Diversity, Equity, and Advancement) research award.
Dr. Ast holds a PhD and MSW from Rutgers University–New Brunswick, an MSc from the University of Glasgow, and a BA from Guilan University.
Office Hours
Spring
- Tuesday
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- In-person or online
- Thursday
- 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- In-person or online
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- Community Conversations on Relationship Violence: Town Variations in Prevention Perceptions through Concept Mapping
- Help-seeking among college survivors of dating and sexual violence: a qualitative exploration of utilization of university-based victim services
- Artistic expression as a source of resilience for transgender and gender diverse young people
- Learning From Practitioners Serving LGBTQ+ Forced Migrants and Other Diverse Groups: Implications for Culturally Informed Affirmative Practice