Professor Hollander received her B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford in 1987. She received an M.A. in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Washington. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1997. Professor Hollander is currently engaged in research on self-defense training and the prevention of violence against women.

• the social construction of gender
• women's self-defense training
• social psychological approaches to race, class, gender, and sexuality
• language and discourse

• gender
• social psychology
• violence against women
• microsociological theory
• sociology of food
• pedagogy

2014     Hollander, Jocelyn A. “Does Self-Defense Training Prevent Sexual Violence Against Women?” Violence Against Women 20(3):252-269.

2013     Hollander, Jocelyn A. “’I Demand More of People’: Interaction, Accountability, and Gender Change.” Gender & Society 27(1):5-29.

2011     Hollander, Jocelyn A., Judith A. Howard, and Daniel G. Renfrow. Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves: A Gender Lens on Social Psychology, 2nd edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

2004     Hollander, Jocelyn A.  “The Social Contexts of Focus Groups.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography  33(5): 602–637.

2002     Hollander, Jocelyn A. “Resisting Vulnerability: The Social Reconstruction of Gender in Interaction.” Social Problems 49:474-496.