New Essay and Presentation About Hazing for National Hazing Prevention Week

I participated and was supported by my research fellowship with the Piazza Center in National Hazing Prevention Week (NPHW) and by HazingPrevention.org. I presented with fellow Piazza Scholar Dr. Brian Joyce (George Washington University) about early identifiers of hazing and co-facilitated this session to include trends in the emerging scholarship. Much of our discussion centered on emerging data from a qualitative study of early hazing identifiers by staff at the Center. Dr. Joyce and I are working on a substantial literature review about hazing which will be widely disseminated and will serve as the basis for a number of future studies.

Also as a part of NPHW, I have recently authored a new essay which outlines current trends in hazing entitled “#BigFacts with #NoCap About Hazing Parents & Their Gen-Z Students.” The intended audience is parents and I contextualize these trends in hazing with Generation-Z who are the current generation of traditional undergraduate students (18-23). This is part of a larger resource guide which includes other perspectives about hazing from a number of noted scholars. I end my essay with advice to parents that they need to get involved in the lives of their own students with specific boundaries in which I outline a number of strategies for parents to become more knowledgeable. I conclude that, “It can be contentious and be perceived as over-parenting, but parents gave them life and they simply want to protect it” (p. 18). Hazing can be deadly and traumatic. I understand this as a past victim of hazing which I have previously outlined in my past scholarship. I have an expanded forthcoming book chapter about my own experiences as a victim of fraternity hazing.