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Jill McCracken
Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor of Rhetoric - USF St. Pete
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Jill McCracken, Ph.D. is a Professor of English and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the 麻豆视频 St. Petersburg. Dr. McCracken is also the Founder and Project Director of Choosing Myself, a comprehensive sexual health program that places individuals鈥� autonomy, choice, and values at the center to advance gender equity and to decrease and prevent sexual violence and trafficking. Having worked with sex workers and victims of trafficking for twenty years, her primary areas of research focus on sex work and trafficking in the sex industry, women and incarceration, and the impact of sexuality education on marginalized communities. Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research methods, Dr. McCracken integrates community-based, participatory research into her work.
Dr. McCracken completed a Fulbright Specialist Project in collaboration with the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective to investigate the presence of violence and trafficking in the sex industry in a country where prostitution is decriminalized. She has conducted trainings for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)-supported organizations, public defenders, human trafficking coalitions, and non-profit organizations. Her work has been recognized through many awards and honors including the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference Influential Scholar Award, USF Outstanding Faculty Award, Women in Research and Philanthropy USF Faculty Research Award, and Chancellor鈥檚 Awards for Excellence in Teaching and Service.
Her recent publications include:
McCracken, Jill. 鈥淓thics as Obligation: Reconciling Diverging Research Practices with Marginalized Communities.鈥� International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Vol 19. October 2020. .
McCracken, Jill, Ellis, Amanda, Greene, Melissa, and Trower, Charlese. 鈥淲omen in Community Sharing Wisdom: Creating Art and Our Lives in Jail.鈥� Women鈥檚 Ways of Making. Eds. Shirley Rose and Maureen Daly Goggin. Utah State University Press. 2021.
McCracken, Jill. 2019. Learning from Women In Jail: Creating Community-Based Participatory Action Research. Springerbriefs in Anthropology and Ethics Series.
Outlaw, Sharmus, McCracken, Jill, and Saunders, Penelope. 2016. 鈥淩esisting through Resilience: US Transgender and Sex Worker Led Community-Based Research.鈥� Research for Sex Work 15: Resistance and Resilience.
McCracken, Jill. 2013. Street Sex Workers鈥� Discourse: Realizing Material Change Through Agential Choice. Routledge Research in Gender and Society.
McCracken, Jill. 鈥�.鈥� Global Network of Sex Work Projects.鈥� January 2019.
McCracken, Jill. 鈥�.鈥� Global Network of Sex Work Projects.鈥� February 2019.
McCracken, Jill, Co-Author and Editor. . April 2018. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.