Christopher St. Vil

University of Buffalo, School of Social Work

Dr. St. Vil focuses on improving support services for Black males with an emphasis on those living in urban contexts. His research illuminates the disproportionate contextual risks experienced by Black males in the domains of lack of positive role models and the increased likelihood of victimization. He utilize a combination of frameworks from a variety of disciplines including victimization, historical trauma, natural mentoring and patient centered outcomes research and combines them with perspectives from the masculinity and men's help-seeking behaviors literature. His approach employs a combination of both quantitative and qualitative methods in search of strategies to reduce disparities impacting Black males and disrupt cycles of violence that are rooted in broader social inequities within the communities they live.

 

Research Interests: Victimization; socialization