Faculty and Staff

Julia O’Connor is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida in the School of Social Work and a member of the Violence Against Women faculty cluster with a secondary appointment in the College of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences. She holds a PhD in social work from Rutgers University where she was a Research Associate at the Center of Violence Against Women and Children; she has additional experience researching child welfare at the Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children. Julia’s research interests include violence against women namely primary prevention and perpetration as well as evaluation research. Additionally, she has extensive experience designing, implementing and analyzing data from campus climate surveys on interpersonal violence. Her practice experience includes many years as a domestic and sexual violence advocate. Julia has served in AmeriCorps (Kent County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, WA, 2001-2002), the Peace Corps (Uganda, 2004-2006), and Peace Corps Response (Guyana, 2013-2014).