Anjerrika Bean

Dr. Anjerrika Bean is a native of Beaumont, Texas. As a researcher, she is a Sociologist and Criminologist with a concentration in criminology and inequality. Dr. Bean obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Christian Leadership from the College of Biblical studies in 2010. She continued her higher educational pursuit and earned her Master of Arts Degree in Sociology from Prairie A&M University in 2012 and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Criminology from Howard University. Dr. Bean examines race and gender as it relates to domestic/intimate partner violence in the faith-based community. Specifically, she focuses on Black Women, (IPV) and reporting in the faith-based community through Patricia Hill Collins’, power domain framework. An important goal of her research is to contribute to the knowledge base of domestic violence and to provide suggestions to policy makers, lay leaders, and community advocates on how to design and implement ethical and effective tools that empower women of color who experience IPV. Her overall goal is to decrease IPV in communities’ of color. Implications of her research will provide a greater understanding of how marginalized social groups (i.e. women, racial minority groups, and communities, etc.) adopt, internalize, negotiate, and challenge hegemonic conceptions of race and gender. Because of her passion to educate and create intellectual safe spaces for people to grow and develop she has set her sights on securing a tenure track position in a liberal arts or research-intensive college or university. Specifically, she focuses on the impact of social injustices, domestic abuse and the cultural and economic empowerment experienced by women of color. She knows that her research training and experience has prepared her to empower students to achieve their highest academic goals.