Name: Anna Gjika
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Expertise Keywords: criminal justice system, digital abuse, gender, gender-based violence, image-based abuse, Intimate partner violence, law and sexual violence, masculinities, nonconsensual intimate image sharing, rape shield laws, sexual assault, sexual violence, social media and activism, social media and surveillance, youth and technology
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: PhD in Sociology with a focus on gender, technology, and crime Research and publications (book and articles) on sexual violence, technology, youth and social media, social media and surveillance, digital activism, and criminal justice responses to sexual violence and tech abuse Teach/have taught courses on gender and crime, the sociology of violence, crime and society, media and crime, social media and society, deviance, etc.
Currrent Research: Tech-facilitated violence; gender-based violence; youth and technology; social media and surveillance in intimate relationships; digital activism (as it relates to sexual violence); uses of digital evidence in sexual assault investigations and adjudication.
Contact Information
E-mail Address: gjikaa@newpaltz.edu
Home Phone: 917-582-1437
Other Information
Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
2019 – 2020 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Bard College
2011 – 2014 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology, Lehman College
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham University | 1998-2002 | B.S. | 2002 | Business Administration |
| The Graduate Center, CUNY | 2010 - 2020 | Ph.D. | 2020 | Sociology |
Organizational Memberships
American Sociological Association (member)
American Society of Criminology (member)
Eastern Sociological Society (member)
Law and Society Association (member)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (member)
Publications
Gjika, Anna. 2024. When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age. University of California Press.
Gjika, Anna. 2024. “Book Review: Teaching Fear: How We Learn Crime and Why it Matters by Nicole E. Rader.” Gender & Society. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432241232974
Worden, Chris* and Anna Gjika. 2023. “The Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries.” Cultural Sociology. Preprint Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231209366.
Gjika, Anna and Alison Marganski. 2020. “Silent Voices, Hidden Stories: A Review of Sexual Assault (Non)Disclosure Literature, Emerging Issues, and Call to Action.” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9(4):163-176.
Gjika, Anna. 2020. “New media, old paradigms: News representations of technology in cases of adolescent sexual assault.” Crime, Media, Culture 16(3):415-430.
