Walter DeKeseredy

Walter Steven DeKeseredy, born March 6, 1959, holds the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at West Virginia University, where he is also a professor of sociology and director of the Research Center on Violence. He received his doctorate from York University in 1988 and formerly taught at Carleton University. He is known for more than thirty years of research on violence against women and, in particular, for studying the part that threats to masculinity play in male violence against women, work that places him among the scholars of victimization and gender-based violence in contemporary criminology.