Biography
Gina Fedock is an Associate Professor in the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her scholarship centers the mental health and wellbeing of women, particularly women involved in the criminal legal system, i.e., women who have been arrested, incarcerated, or under community-based correctional supervision. Women impacted by the criminal legal system experience multiple forms of social marginalization, including discrimination, poverty, and violence. Her work focuses on the everyday dynamics and on-the-ground conditions that give form to their marginalization and the ensuing ramifications for their mental health and wellbeing. She engages at the intersections of social work and the criminal legal system and contributes to domains critical to women’s wellbeing, including violence against women and the child welfare system. Her goal is to identify targets for change that can make meaningful improvements in women’s lives.
She was a practicing clinical social worker prior to her doctoral work. Her clinical work encompasses trauma-informed practices, violence prevention, and the modalities of cognitive behavioral practice, interpersonal therapy, and motivational interviewing. She advances anti-oppressive social work practice in her teaching.
Her research is in journals such as: Trauma, Violence, & Abuse; Violence Against Women; Research on Social Work Practice; Journal of Interpersonal Violence; Child Abuse & Neglect; and the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.
She earned her MSW in Interpersonal Practice and Community Organizing from the University of Michigan and her doctorate in social work from Michigan State University.