PhD Candidate | Applied Social & Cultural Psychology
Graduate Minor | Middle East & Muslim World Studies
Gendered & Digital Sexual Violence
Examining how gendered, racialized, & technological
systems shape experiences of sexual violence
My research on sexual violence, and image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in particular, examines how harm is produced, experienced, and legitimized within broader gendered and racialized systems of power.
In this body of work, I investigate victim-survivor coping, meaning-making, and help-seeking pathways, as well as the institutional barriers that shape their access to justice. This work includes peer-reviewed publications in Psychology of Violence and Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, offering survivor-centered insights into IBSA during the COVID-19 pandemic and the multisystemic reforms survivors believe are necessary for meaningful prevention and accountability.
This line of research is conducted in close collaboration with leading scholars and practitioners who specialize in sexual violence prevention, institutional response, and digital harm. Together, we examine contexts in which hierarchical power structures intensify vulnerability while attending to the cultural, structural, and organizational forces that shape experiences of victimization. Across these projects, we employ trauma-informed and justice-oriented research practices that center survivor voices and illuminate the systems that enable or obscure sexual harm.
Ultimately, this research aims to contribute to evidence-based interventions, institutional reforms, and policy efforts that better protect vulnerable communities and address the cultural and structural conditions that allow sexual violence to persist.
Relevant Publications, Presentations, & Awards
PUBLICATIONS
Gali, A.M., Ortiz Diaz, K., Wolfart, R., Eaton, A. A. (under review) Men’s experiences with image-based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Contributing circumstances and vulnerabilities. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Ortiz Diaz, K; Gali, A.M.; Solomon, D.; Kenny, M.; Stephens, D.P. (under review) A Grounded Theory Approach to Understanding Male Military Member’s Experiences and Perceptions of Sexual Assault Prevention Trainings: A Research Note. Armed Forces & Society.
Siegel, J. A., Miller, A. M., Krieger, M. A., & Eaton, A. A. (2024). “Anything I could do to not have it paralyze me was welcome”: Coping strategies employed by survivors of image-based sexual abuse. Psychology of Violence. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000526
Eaton, A. A., Krieger, M. A., Siegel, J. A., & Miller, A. M. (2024). Victim-survivors’ proposed solutions to addressing image-based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Legal, corporate, educational, technological, and cultural approaches. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12395
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Gali, A.M., Ortiz-Diaz, K., Wolfart, R., Eaton, A. (2025, June 23-24). Men’s experiences with image-based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Contributing circumstances and vulnerabilities. Talk presented by Eaton, A. at British Psychological Society’s POWES Annual Conference, Oxford, England.
Krieger, M., Eaton, A., Miller, A. M., Siegel, J., (2023, March). Victims’ suggestions for structural solutions to IBSA. Invited for the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) Engaging Transformative Justice as Feminist Practice Conference- Atlanta, GA, United States.
Siegel, J., Miller, A. M., Eaton, A., Krieger, M., (2023, March). Coping strategies used by victims of IBSA. Invited for the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP) Engaging Transformative Justice as Feminist Practice Conference- Atlanta, GA, United States.