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Ron Avi Astor holds the Marjorie Crump Chair Professorship in Social Welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs with a joint appointment in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. His work examines the role of physical, social-organizational, and cultural contexts in schools related to various forms of bullying and school violence, including sexual harassment, cyberbullying, discrimination, hate acts, school fights, emotional abuse, and teacher/child violence. Astor documents ecological influences on family, community, and school culture regarding these issues. His research has utilized data from tens of thousands of schools and millions of students, teachers, parents, and administrators worldwide. Over the past 20 years, his findings have been published in over 200 scholarly manuscripts. Together with colleague Rami Benbenishty, he developed school mapping and monitoring procedures used on a large scale to help local students and teachers generate grassroots solutions to safety problems. Astor’s research has received numerous awards from organizations such as the Society for Social Work Research and the American Psychological Association, and his work has been widely cited in the international media.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.