Dr. Mia Kelly

Mia Gilliam joined the faculty at UW-Eau Claire in 2020. She is currently completing her dissertation as a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice, with a minor in Sociology, at Indiana University. Originally from Illinois, she graduated with her Bachelor's and Master's from Illinois State University. Her primary research interests are gender-based crimes, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, victimology, and theory. She is currently working on projects involving fictional media portrayals of sexual assault survivors and news coverage of mass shootings. In addition to presenting papers at professional conferences such as American Society of Criminology (ASC) and Criminology Consortium, she has co-authored book chapters in various textbooks, and her recent publications have appeared in Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment and Sociological Compass.