V. Elizabeth Hoggard-King

Education

Research

Elizabeth brings her experience working in the child welfare, Child Advocacy Center, and criminal justice fields as a child forensic interviewer and multidisciplinary investigative team facilitator to her research perspectives. She is broadly interested in the social-ecological etiology of childhood trauma in historically marginalized populations; the potential of national and organizational policy to impact well-being throughout the lifespan; and interventions to improve best practices for professionals or layprofessionals who interface with trauma-exposed populations. Currently, Elizabeth works under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Wieling on projects related to developing ecologically responsive multi-component systemic interventions for populations exposed to mass traumas. This research is being conducted primarily with immigrant and refugee communities in the U.S. and in low-income post-conflict settings internationally. 

Elizabeth's primary research interest is the use of trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate, investigative interviewing techniques for eliciting accounts of trauma and violence that would constitute a need for international protection (e.g., "credible fear" interviews; human rights violations; investigation of atrocity crimes).  Elizabeth is engaged in her own scholarship to (a) define current knowledge of Latin American youth refugees' experiences of trauma; (b) to define and assess the developmental and cultural appropriateness of current practices in interviewing asylum-seeking children at the US border; and (c) understand the role of traumatic stress knowledge in child forensic interviewer practices in North America. Currently, Elizabeth is working on three main projects: a study of child forensic interviewer knowledge of traumatic stress; the preliminary development of a theory of moral disengagement to support interventions on the behavior of State actors at the US Southern border; and a secondary data analysis (Fragile Families) exploring the relation between child autistic traits, harsh parenting, and the development of child traumatic stress symptoms in adolescence. 

Elizabeth also writes about J.R.R. Tolkien and transformative works in her free time. She has presented at the Tolkien Society (2021) and the Popular Culture Association (2022). She has appeared as a guest on The Tolkien Experience.

Prior Professional Positions

Awards

Service

Advisory Committee

My advisory committee is comprised of (a) Dr. Elizabeth Wieling (major professor) and Dr. Margaret Caughy, both in HDFS at UGA; (b) Dr. Sonja Brubacher, of the Centre for Investigative Interviewing and Griffith Criminology Institute, at Griffith University; and (c) Dr. Chad Clay, from International Affairs and the Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS) at UGA.

Areas of Expertise

child and family trauma; immigration (discplacement & refugees); forensic and investigative interviewing; program evaluation

Professional Affiliations

• Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (2021 to present)
• Society for Research in Child Development (Latinx Caucus; 2020 to present)
• American Psychological Association (2019 to present)
• Society for Community Research and Action (Immigrant Justice Group; 2018 to present)
• American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (2018 to present)

Journal Articles

• King, V.E. (2022). Latin American Refugee Youth in the United States: Migration-Related Trauma Exposure and Implications for Policy and Practice. International Journal of Migration, Health, & Social Care.  https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-07-2021-0065 Online here (not open access).
• Leyva, L., McNeill, T., Balmer, B., Marshall, B., King, V.E. & Alley, Z. (2022). Black Queer Students’ Counter-stories of Invisibility in Undergraduate STEM as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space. American Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312221096455 Online open access here.
• Curtis, M., Boe, J., King, V.E., & Osborne, K. (2022). Quantitative criticalism: guidelines for conducting transformative quantitative family science research. Journal of Family Theory & Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/jftr.12449 Online open access here.
• Buckingham, S.L., Langhout, R.D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chávez, N.R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V.E., & Olson, B. (2021). The roles of settings in supporting immigrants’ resistance to injustice and oppression: A policy position statement by the Society for Community Research and Action. American Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12515 Online open access here.

Conference Presentations

• King, V.E. (2021, November 2-5). Latin American Immigrant Youth's Traumatic Exposure Across Social Ecological Levels and Migration Stages: A Systematic Review of the Literature [Poster session]. International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies 37th Annual Meeting. (online) 
• Buckingham, S.L., Ferreira van Leer, K.; Oberoi, A.; Olson, B.; Rusch, D.; King, V.E.; Indart, M.; Chávez, N.R.; Mehta, T. (2021, August 12-14). Giving Psychology Away: Considering Tensions in Public Interest Policy Advocacy [Conference panel]. American Psychological Association Annual Meeting 2021. (online)
• King, V.E. (2021, July 4-5). “The Burnt Hand Teaches Most About Fire”: Applying Traumatic Stress and Ecological Frameworks to Narratives of Displacement and Resettlement Across Cultures in Tolkien’s Middle-earth [Conference presentation]. The Tolkien Society Summer Seminar, Oxford, England. (online) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4N_cyKTDI
• Ellis, E., King, V.E., & Trejo, A. (2021, June 24-26) The Intersection of Detention, Traumatic Stress & Suicide: A Review of the Literature and Implications for Policy [Conference presentation]. American Family Therapy Academy Conference. (online)
• Leyva, L.A., McNeill, T., King, V.E., & Marshall, B.L. (2021, April 11-13). "I Really Avoid Any Way of Being Seen as a Sexual Being to My Peers": Embodied Oppressions and Agency among Queer Women of Color in Undergraduate STEM [Conference presentation]. American Education Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, United States. (online)
• Leyva, L.A, McNeill, T., Balmer, B.R., Marshall, B.L., King, V.E., & Alley, Z. (2021, April 11-13). A Counterstorytelling of Black Queer Students’ Experiences of Queer of Color Invisibility in Undergraduate STEM as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space [Conference presentation]. American Education Research Association Conference, Orlando, FL, United States. (online)

Other Publications

• King, V.E. (2017, April). Forensic Interviewing: So, uh, what exactly do you do? Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20160626071055/https://wvcan.org/forensic-interviewing/