Alexis is a doctoral candidate in Critical Social/Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has a strong interest in understanding structural violence and the ways people resist. Her previous research includes: the development of civic and political engagement in young adults who participate in activist organizations, factors that help students make successful transitions from prison to college, and ways people use privilege to combat inequality. Alexis is currently conducting research on strategies women use to make themselves feel safer, including self-defense training and gun ownership. Alexis is the recipient of the Graduate Center Horowitz Dissertation fellowship for 2016-2017.
Dissertation Title: From Targets to Agents: Women’s Perceptions of Their Vulnerability and the Strategies They Use to Resist
Dissertation Committee: Roderick J. Watts (chair), Michelle Fine, and David C. Brotherton. Readers: Deborah L. Tolman and Glenda M. Russell
Milestones:
1st Doctoral Exam: Projective Identification and group dynamics: The transformational potential of psychological research
2nd Year Research Project: Re-defining Possible: Re-Visioning the Prison to College Pipeline
2nd Doctoral Exam: Track 1 Judging Juveniles: Immaturity, Vulnerability, and Changeability in Research and the Law; Track 2 Youth Violence as Structural Violence: Bullying and School Shooting
MA Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College Columbia University.
MA Medieval Indian History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- South Asian History. Columbia College Columbia University.
Publications
Halkovic, A., and Greene, A.C. (2015). Bearing stigma, carrying gifts: What colleges can learn from students with incarceration experience. The Urban Review, 54(4), 759-782.
Halkovic, A. (2014). Redefining Possible: Re-Visioning the Prison-to-College Pipeline. Equity & Excellence in Education, 47(4), 494–512. doi:10.1080/10665684.2014.959284
Fine M., and Halkovic, A. (2014). A delicate and deliberate journey toward justice: Challenging privilege/Building structures of solidarity. In M. Deutsch, P.T. Coleman, and E. Marcus (Eds.). The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (3rd Edition).
Halkovic, A., Fine, M., Bae, J., Campbell, L., Evans, D., Gary, C., Greene, C. A., Taylor, M., Tebout, R.,and Tawaji, A. (2013). Higher education and reentry: The gifts they bring. New York: John Jay Research. http://www.johnjayresearch.org/pri/gifts
email: ahalkovic@gradcenter.cuny.edu
website: alexishalkovic.com
