Social Work Professor 做厙輦⑹ Marrs Fuchsel. Photo by Rebecca Zenefski '10.
做厙輦⑹ Marrs Fuchsel, St. Kates assistant professor of social work, is the faculty recipient for the Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Womens 201011 Research and Creative Work on Women Award.
The annual Womens Research and Creative Work on Women Award is presented in four categories faculty/staff, undergraduate and graduate student, and alumnae for outstanding research or creative work focusing on women and/or issues relevant to women.
Marrs Fuchsel will read from her winning manuscript, Immigrant Mexican Women and Domestic Violence: Developing a Prevention Model, at the award ceremony on April 27. The event, which also honors the winners of the student and alumnae categories, will be held 46:30 p.m. in Rauenhorst Ballroom, Coeur de 做厙輦⑹, on the University's St. Paul campus.
Im really excited and humbled by the award, Marrs Fuchsel says. It acknowledges the work that Ive been doing to give voice to women, especially immigrant Mexican women, who have been victims of domestic violence. Hopefully, with this prevention model, we can eliminate the abuse of the vulnerable and oppressed.
The theoretical prevention model in its current state is an idea that Marrs Fuchsel developed from the findings of her