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Jean J. Schensul, Ph.D.
blue arrow Senior Scientist and Founder, Institute for Community Research (ICR)
blue arrow Co-Director, Qualitative Methods and Ethnography, Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core
blue arrow Investigator, Community Research Core

Contact:
blue arrow jean.schensul@icrweb.org
blue arrow Ph: (860) 278-2044
 Jean J. Schensul


Brief Bio:
Dr. Schensul is founder (1987-2004) and currently senior scientist full time, at The Institute for Community Research, an independent research institute conducting prevention research in communities in the United States, India and China, and based in Hartford, CT. She is a medical anthropologist with three decades of experience in the conduct of HIV prevention and other health-related research in urban areas of the United States and in developing countries. Her areas of expertise include mixed research methods, drug research, sexuality and HIV, and school and community based structural approaches to intervention across the lifespan. In 2006-7 she was professor in residence at UCLA teaching research methods in the Graduate School of Education. Her recent publications include The Ethnographer's Toolkit, a seven book boxed series on ethnographic research methods, published by Altamira Press, now in revision, "Applied Research Methods" (Trotter and Schensul) in the Handbook of Ethnographic Methods, edited by H. Russell Bernard, Altamira Press, and articles on community based intervention methods, adolescent sexuality, adolescent marijuana use, democratization of research, research collaborations, participatory action research. She is the senior editor of a special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology (June 2009) on the science and practice of multilevel interventions.

Dr. Schensul is, past president of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the Council on Educational Anthropology, an organizational member of the American Anthropological Association, as well as other elected and appointed positions in the American Anthropological Association. She and Stephen Schensul are the joint recipients of the Solon T. Kimball award for application of anthropology to policy. She has founded or co-founded four successful community based health social science research institutes including the Institute for Community Research and the Hispanic Health Council and two others in Peru and Sri Lanka. She has led many federal, state and foundation funded studies and intervention projects, and since 1996 has been the principal investigator on more than twelve NIA, NIDA, NIMH and NIAAA funded HIV and substance abuse related grants totaling over $35,000,000 in research funds. Internationally she has consulted to prevention researchers in Senegal, Kenya, China, and Spain. Currently she is working with research collaborators in Mumbai India on an NIAAA funded study of drinking and sexual risk among young men and an NIMH funded study of women’s reproductive health and sexual risk in Mumbai.


CIRA Affiliated Projects:
A Study of High Risk Drug Use Settings for HIV Prevention
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health
Status: Completed
Region:
U.S. - Connecticut
A Study of High Risk Drug Use Settings for HIV Prevention - Supplement
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health
Status: Completed
Region:
U.S. - Connecticut
HIV Prevention in High-Risk Drug Use Sites: Project RAP (Risk Avoidance Partnership)
Funder:
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Status: Completed
Region:
U.S. - Connecticut
Interactive Effects of Alcohol and Polydrug Use on Sexual Risk Taking among Youth Cross Nationally
Funder:
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
Status: Completed
Region:

Microbicide/Female Condom Acceptability for Sex Workers in China
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health/Fogarty International Center
Status: Completed
Region:
China
Minority Youth Action Research Training Institute
Funder:
National Institute of Mental Health
Status: Completed
Region:
U.S. - Connecticut
Project Parivartan: Structural Interventions and HIV Prevention among Sex Workers, their Clients, and Injection Drug Users in India
Funder:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Status: Completed
Region:
India

Selected Publications:
In Press

Robison, J., Schensul, J.J., Coman, E., Gaztambide, S., Radda, K.  (In Press). Racial/Ethnic pattens and correlates of Major Depressive Disorder. Aging & Mental Health, (), .

2009

Schensul, J.  (2009). Community, Culture and Sustainability in Multilevel Dynamic Systems Intervention Science. American Journal of Community Psychology, 43(3-4), 241-56.

Schensul, J., Tricket, E.  (2009). Introduction to Multi-Level Community Based Culturally Situated Prevention. American Journal of Psychology, 43(3-4), 232-240.

Brydon-Miller, M., Davids, I., Jaiti, N., Brinton, L., Schensul, J., Williams, S.  (2009). Popular Education and Action Research: Voices from the Field. in Noffke, S. and Somekh, B., The SAGE Handbook of Educational Action Research (pp.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schensul, J., Trickett, E.  (2009). Summary Comments: Multi-Level Community Based Culturally Situated Interventions. Journal of Community Psychology, 43(3-4), 377-381.

2008

Schensul J.J., Robison,J., Reyes, C., Radda, K., Gaztambide, S., Disch, W.  (2008). Building interdisciplinary/intersectoral research partnerships for community-based mental health research with older minority adults. American Journal of Psychology, 38(1-2), 79-93.

Schensul, J.  (2008). Documents. in Given, L., Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (pp.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schensul, J.  (2008). Historical Context. in Given, L., Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (pp.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schensul, J.  (2008). Method. in Given, L., Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (pp.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schensul, J.  (2008). Methodology. in Given, L., Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (pp.). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schensul, J., Berg, M.  (2008). Reframing Hegenomies: Co-Constructing transformational knowledge and action through Participatory Ethnographic Action Research Partnerships. Collaborative Anthropologies, 1(1), .

2007

Burkholder, G., Schensul, J., Pino, R.  (2007). Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use Among Polydrug-Using Urban Youth and Young Adults. Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 1(1), 24-40.

2005

Singer, M., Clair, S., Schensul, J., Huebner, C., Eiserman, J., Pino R. and Garcia, J.  (2005). Dust in the Wind: The Growing Use of Embalming Fluid Among Youth in Hartford, CT. Substance Use & Misuse, 40(8), 1035-50.

2003

Eiserman, J., Singer, M., Schensul, J.J., Broomhall, L.  (2003). Methodological challenges in club drug research. Practicing Anthropology, 25(3), 19-22.

Liao, S.S., Schensul, J.J. and Wolffers, I.  (2003). Sex-Related Health Risks and Implications for Interventions with Hospitality Women in Hainan, China. AIDS Education & Prevention, 15(2), 109-21.

2000

Schensul, J.J., Huebner, C., Singer, M., Snow, M., Feliciano, P. and Broomhall, L.  (2000). The high, the money, and the fame: The emergent social context of "new marijuana" use among urban youth. Medical Anthropology, 18(4), 389-414.

1999

Schensul, J.  (1999). Building Community Research Partnerships in the Struggle Against AIDS. Health Education and Behavior, 26(2), 266.

1998-1999

Schensul, J.J., Torres, M.I., Weeks, M.  (1998-1999). Learning About Sexual Meaning and Decision-Making from Urban Adolescents. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 18(1), 29-48.

1998

Nastasi, B.K., Schensul, J.  (1998). Community Based risk Prevention Program for Sri Lankan Youth: Influencing sexual-risk decision making. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 27(2), .

1995

Weeks, M. R., Schensul, J.J., Williams, S.S., Singer, M. and Grier, M.  (1995). AIDS prevention for African-American and Latina women: building culturally and gender-appropriate intervention. AIDS Education & Prevention, 7(3), 251-64.

1994

Schensul, S.L., Schensul, J.J.  (1994). Negotiating Sexual Intimacy in the Era of AIDS: Young Women Workers and their sex partners in Mauritius. Reproductive Health Matters, 2(3), 83-93.

1993

Weeks, M., Schensul, J.  (1993). Ethnographic Research on AIDS Risk Behavior and the Making o f Policy. in Fetterman, D., Speaking the Language of Power: Communication, Collaboration and Avocacy (pp.50-69). : The Falmer Press.

1992

Singer, M., Jia, Z., Schensul, J.J., Weeks, M.R. and Page, J.B.  (1992). AIDS and the IV drug user: the local context in prevention efforts. Medical Anthropology, 14(2-4), 285-306.

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