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| Tanya L. Sharpe, Ph.D., MSW, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Dr. Sharpe has extensive training and interdisciplinary practice and research experience related to public health, diversity, and violence. Dr. Sharpe’s specialty area of practice and research includes working with African American families who are surviving the homicide of a loved one. She has designed and implemented numerous community based violence prevention and intervention programs specifically targeting children and families from diverse marginalized communities and has experience developing, implementing, and conducting culturally appropriate research studies and trainings in the areas of children and families coping with school, community violence and man made and natural disasters. Dr. Sharpe is the recent recipient of the Henry C. Welcome Fellowship Faculty Research Fellowship. While a doctoral student at Boston College School of Social Work, Dr. Sharpe received national recognition as a recipient of the Council on Social Work Education’s Minority Fellowship funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration and the National Institute of Mental Health. She was also a recipient of a dissertation award for trauma/family violence research from the Sarah Haley Memorial Fund. Her future research will include; conducting comparative studies that examine racial, ethnic, and generational differences in coping among homicide survivor populations, examining the coping strategies of adolescent sibling survivors of homicide, and implementing a longitudinal study that examines the post-homicide experiences of surviving family members. |
