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Dean's Scholarship Key

Minority Undergraduate Student of Excellence

Nominee, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Member, American Counseling Association

Member, American Education Research Association

Member, American Psychological Association

Students’ Reasons for Why They Were Targeted for In-School Victimization and Bullying

Hate and violence: Addressing discrimination based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

Practices for Improving Secondary School Climate: A Systematic Review of the Research Literature

Community engagement: Universities’ roles in building communities and strengthening democracy

Students’ Perceptions of Safety at School After Sandy Hook

Maury's Nation's clinical research focuses on understanding and preventing violence and bullying among school-age children. His specific interests are bully and victim typologies, and the short- and long-term consequences of peer harassment. His community research is focused on understanding community and neighborhood qualities/characteristics that promote positive health and mental health outcomes. In 2016 he received a $5 million grant from the National Institute of Justice to fund a five-year partnership between the Nashville Mayor's office, Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and Vanderbilt University to conduct The Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing. Through the study, an interdisciplinary team of researchers, educators, city government and juvenile court staffers, police and youth development workers will develop a dataset to better inform decision-making with a goal of positively impacting the climate for youths in Nashville.

Public School Systems

Race

Bullying and School-Age Children

Neighborhood Characteristics and Mental Health

Community & School-based Prevention Research

Restorative Discipline Practices

Suspensions

Restorative Justice

Equity for Students of Color

Violence Prevention

Positive Youth Development

Community Counseling/Community Psychology

Poverty

Marginalized and Alienated Young People

Faculty Page

Vanderbilt University News Profile

Right resources at the right time goal of public-private partnership for Nashville youths

Study: Nashville students less likely to have positive relationships with adults as they age

Social, emotional safety critical to students’ success

Talk it out: Restorative justice techniques help school communities rethink approaches to discipline

Associate Professor, Core Faculty, Human Development Counseling

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