Gina Fedock

Gina Fedock is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her scholarship prioritizes the mental health and wellbeing of women involved in the criminal legal system, focusing on the intersecting impacts of gender, race, and class. She actively challenges pathologizing narratives by reframing institutional conditions as drivers of distress and advocates for anti-oppressive interventions.

• Education: MSW from University of Michigan, PhD from Michigan State University.
• Research Themes: Institutional violence against women, child welfare system intersections, trauma-informed social work practice, and decarceration strategies.

Her recent work examines staff-perpetrated sexual misconduct, intimate partner violence, and material hardships like housing insecurity. She has published extensively in journals such as Trauma, Violence, & Abuse and Violence Against Women, often collaborating with interdisciplinary teams. Fedock's scholarship advocates for policy changes grounded in human rights and social justice for incarcerated and parole-supervised women.