Canton Resident Nicole Capezza Joins Faculty at Stonehill College

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EASTON, MA (09/25/2012)(readMedia)-- Canton resident Nicole Capezza has joined the faculty at Stonehill College this academic year as a visiting assistant professor of psychology. Her dissertation focused on understanding when and why victims are blamed and the role of personal and system threat. Her research also focuses on how people perceive, understand, and cope with trauma and hardships such as intimate partner violence, substance abuse, stereotyping and discrimination.

She comes to the College from Treatment Innovations, where she was a project director from 2010 to 2012 working on research related to PTSD and substance abuse. Since 2010, she has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry.

While earning her master's and doctorate degrees at Purdue, Capezza worked as an instructor, teaching courses on human sexuality and psychology of women. When she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown from 2009-2010, Capezza also worked as a research fellow at Woman & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island in the Department of Medicine.

She has served as an Academic Advisory Board Member for McGraw-Hill Higher Education on Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Human Sexuality since 2009 and is widely published in professional journals that focus on interpersonal violence, gender, addiction, and personal relationships.