Title
Associate Professor of Sociology and Human Services
Department
Sociology and Human Services
Institution
Northeastern University
Education
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Ph.D., 2005, Sociology and Social Welfare Policy Boston University
Research Interests
Biography
Dr. Silvia DomÃnguez, PhD, MSW, specializes in the welfare of women, children and minority populations in the United States and abroad, with additional emphasis on sexual and gender-based violence, race relations and immigration issues. She serves as an associate professor of sociology and human services in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, where she is also a faculty fellow at the Urban Health Research Institute, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Brudnick Center for the Study of Conflict and Violence. Among numerous research reports, articles and reviews, Dr. DomÃnguez is the author of Getting Ahead: Social Mobility, Public Housing and Immigrant Networks(New York University Press, 2011), an examination of the lives of Latina immigrants in greater Boston. She also co-edited a book with Bettina Holstein, Mixed Methods with Social Networks coming out with Cambridge University Press in 2013. She has also published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on immigration, social networks and mental health, in addition to essays in edited volumes.
She was also an invited team member of the task force which developed the 2009 National Mental Health Policy for the Republic of Liberia, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Under the auspices of the Chester Pierce Division on Global Psychiatry Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, it was Liberia's first comprehensive and integrative policy recognizing and addressing the diverse mental health care needs of the country's population at large. Dr. Dominguez also serves as an independent Forensic Evaluator for the State of Massachusetts, and has been recognized by the United States Census Bureau as an Ethnography expert in low-income populations.
Silvia Dominguez graduated with a BA in sociology and psychology from Boston College and a Masters in forensic psychiatric social work from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. She received a PhD in sociology and social welfare policy at Boston University.
Prior to working at Northeastern University, she directed the psychiatric services at Massachusetts Correctional Center at Norfolk. She also directed substance abuse, and mental health programs. She grew up in Chile and has also lived in France and Montreal. She is fluent in English and Spanish and almost fluent in French.
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