John D. Foubert is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on gender and violence, college student development (psychosocial, moral, and spiritual), and university administration. Based on his philosophy of using the research process to facilitate teaching, most of his publications are co-authored with students. With over $500,000 in external funding, Dr. Foubert has made sustained contributions to scholarship with high impact and consistent productivity. His 35 peer reviewed articles and 9 books have been cited over 700 times. Dr. Foubert is founder and president of One in Four, a national nonprofit organization that implements research-based rape prevention programs on college campuses and in the military. He has been called upon by the U.S. Congress to testify about how to prevent rape in the military and has trained soldiers overseas. Recently, Dr. Foubert has accelerated his research program in the spiritual development of college students and in the connections between exposure to pornography and bystander intervention. He holds a research intensive master’s degree in Psychology from the University of Richmond and a Ph.D. in College Student Personnel Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Gender and Violence
Sorority women’s and fraternity men’s rape myth acceptance and bystander intervention attitudes (with R Sean Bannon and Matt W. Brosi), Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (2013)
Sorority women and fraternity men are more likely than other students to be survivors and...
Effects of The Men’s Program on U.S. Army soldiers’ intentions to commit and willingness to intervene to prevent rape: A pretest posttest study., Violence and Victims (2012)
Non-commissioned male officers in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany were trained to present a...
Answering the questions of rape prevention research: A response to Tharp et al. (2011), Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2011)
Rape prevention programmers and researchers have long struggled to select the most appropriate theoretical models...
Effects of women’s pornography use on bystander intervention in a sexual assault situation and rape myth acceptance (with Matt W. Brosi, R Sean Bannon, and Gabriel Yandell), Oracle: The Research Journal of the Association of Fraternity/ Sorority Advisors (2011)
College women’s exposure to pornography is growing nationwide. A limited amount of research exists documenting...
Pornography viewing among fraternity men: Effects on bystander intervention, rape myth acceptance and behavioral intent to commit sexual assault. (with Matt W. Brosi and R Sean Bannon), Journal of Sex Addiction and Compulsivity (2011)
College men’s exposure to pornography is nearly universal, with growing viewing rates nationwide. Substantial research...
College Student Development
Explaining the wind: How self-identified born again Christians define what “born again” means to them (with Angela Watson, Matt W. Brosi, and Dale R. Fuqua), Journal of Psychology and Christianity (2012)
Christian students on college campuses form a large proportion of the student body on many...
Integrating Religious and Professional Identities: Christian Faculty at Public Institutions of Higher Education (with Christy M. Craft and Jessica J. Lane), Religion & Education (2011)
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate how Christian faculty members integrate their...
Keeping (or losing) the faith: Reflections on spiritual struggles and resolution by college seniors. (with Jodi Fisler, Holly Agati, Shannon Chance, Amie Donahue, Greg Donahue, Erik Eickhoff, Sara Gastler, and Joseph Lowder), College Student Affairs Journal (2009)
In this qualitative study, researchers examined how college seniors experienced and resolved spiritual struggles in...
Rape myth acceptance, hypermasculinity, and SAT scores as correlates of moral development: Understanding sexually aggressive attitudes in first year college men. (with Jerry L. Tatum), Journal of College Student Development (2009)
Male perpetrated sexual aggression has long been recognized as a serious problem on college campuses....
Effects of Involvement in Clubs and Organizations on the Psychosocial Development of First-Year and Senior College Students (with Lauren U. Grainger), Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (2006)
Students at a midsized public university in the southeast completed the Student Development Task and...
University Administration
Lessons learned: How to avoid the biggest mistakes made by college resident assistants. (2007)
Lessons Learned is a book designed for use in training programs for newly hired resident...
Sexual assault survivors’ perceptions of campus judicial systems. (with Dallas Durant), Illinois Counseling Association Journal (2007)
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the experiences and perceptions of college...
Guiding principles for university crisis management in the age of elevated terrorist threats. (with Dallas N. Garner, Catherine Golden, and Kara Miller), The Michigan Journal of College Student Development (2006)
In light of post 9/11/01 realities, we studied the need for retooling crisis management plans...
Students living in substance free housing: Attitudes toward their residential experience and predictors of their satisfaction. (with Karen Boss, Amy Ginther, and Susan R. Komives), The Journal of College and University Student Housing (2000)
Students living in smoke-free and alcohol free residential housing were compared to students in on-campus...
Assessment issues and practice in residential education. (with Deborah Grandner), Educational Programming and Student Learning in College and University Residence Halls. (1999)
Issues and ideas on how to conduct assessment in college and university residence life programs...