Clinical Assistant Professor Social Work
Crystal M. Hayes, Ph.D., M.S.W. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at Sacred Heart University. Her research and practice area focuses on human rights, and racial, gender, and economic justice. She is specifically interested in issues of reproductive justice for incarcerated people at the intersections of race and gender. Crystal began her social work career working in community-based mental health as a clinician where she worked with women and children in maternal and pediatric mental health. In additional to community-based mental health, Crystal's work social work career includes non-profit leadership and management, social work education, and community organizing. Crystal's current research uses qualitative tools to explore gender and trauma informed reproductive justice issues for incarcerated women's health and implications for policy, research, and prison reform. Crystal works with a variety of human rights organizations and agencies internationally and abroad.
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About Crystal Hayes, Ph.D., M.S.W.
Crystal M. Hayes, Ph.D., M.S.W. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work at Sacred Heart University. Her research and practice area focuses on human rights, and racial, gender, and economic justice. She is specifically interested in issues of reproductive justice for incarcerated people at the intersections of race and gender. Crystal began her social work career working in community-based mental health as a clinician where she worked with women and children in maternal and pediatric mental health. In additional to community-based mental health, Crystal's work social work career includes non-profit leadership and management, social work education, and community organizing. Crystal's current research uses qualitative tools to explore gender and trauma informed reproductive justice issues for incarcerated women's health and implications for policy, research, and prison reform. Crystal works with a variety of human rights organizations and agencies internationally and abroad.
| August 2018 - Present | Clinical Assistant Professor Social Work, Sacred Heart University ‐ School of Social Work | |
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Disciplines
Grants
| 2016 - 2018 | Collaborative Equity Research Grant on Women and Girls of Color |
| University of Connecticut |
Honors and Awards
- Doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut
- Council on Social Work Education, Minority Doctoral Fellowship Program
- Doctoral Scholarship, University of Connecticut
- The COMPACT on Faculty Diversity Award, University of Connecticut
- Doctoral Student Travel Scholarship, University of Connecticut
- At Home in the World Faculty Fellowship, At the University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa and North Carolina State University
- Five College Women's Studies Research Associateship, Mount Holyoke College
- Vivian Michaelson Fellowship, University of Connecticut
- 2017 recipient of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Council on Social Work Education Minority Doctoral Fellowship Program.
- 2016 recipient of the White House Equity Research Grant on Women and Girls of Color.
Courses
- Anti-Racism
- Advanced Policy
- Social Welfare History and Policy
| 2015 - 2021 | Ph.D. Social Work, University of Connecticut ‐ School of Social Work | |
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| 2004 - 2006 | Master of Social Work, Smith College | |
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| 2000 - 2004 | B.A. African and African American Studies, Political Science, Mount Holyoke College | |
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Links
Contact Information
School of Social Work
College of Arts & Sciences
West Campus West Building WCW*W3A312
203-396-6337
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