and international conferences and is author on over 90 professional publications. She is co-editor of four published books including
Bullying in North American Schools: A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention and
International Handbook of Bullying published by Routledge. She is Associate Editor of the
Journal of Counseling Psychology. She has presented thousands of workshops and in-service training seminars for teachers, administrators, counselors, and social workers across the U.S. Her research focuses on translating empirical findings into prevention and intervention programming. She is currently funded by the CDC for a randomized clinical trial of a bullying prevention program in 36 middle schools. She authored a 2011 White House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference in 2011. She is also funded by National Science Foundation to develop better methods to assess bullying among adolescents and CDC and NIJ are funding a longitudinal study of predictors of bullying and dating violence among adolescents. Dr. Espelage has appeared on many television news and talk shows, including
The Today Show;
CNN; CBS Evening News;
The Oprah Winfrey Show, Anderson, Anderson 360 and has been quoted in the national print press, including
Time Magazine,
USA Today,
People, Boston Globe, and the
Wall Street Journal. Her dedicated team of undergraduate and graduate students are committed to the dissemination of the research through various mechanisms.
