Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker, a widely published author and an award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his innovative work on the legal, policy and health dimensions of interpersonal violence, including its effects on children. Dr. Stark’s book, Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life (Oxford, 2007) was named the outstanding book in the social sciences for 2007 by the American Publishers' Association and recipient of the “Choice” Award. American Library Association for “outstanding academic book reviewed in 2008.” Coercive control became available as an audiobook in 2018. Evan's work on coercive control has helped shape policies on gender violence throughout in several U.S. States, in Taiwan, Turkey and other countries where he has worked, and laid the conceptual groundwork for new offenses involving of ‘coercive and controlling behavior’ in England/Wales (2016) as well as in Scotland (2017).
HIghlights of Evan's career include:
. Provided Expert Evidence to the Royal High Court of Appeals in England in the Sally Challen Case.
. Appointed by Fedreral Circuit Court to the Nicholson Review Panel as representative for plaintiff mothers to oversee compliance with injunction by by NYC's Administration for Children's Services (ACS).
- Expert in more than 100 criminal, family, civil and child welfare cases, including Nicholson v. Williams, a successful federal class action against New York City that ended the removal of children from non-offending victims of domestic violence.
. Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh.
. Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) in Newark, New Jersey.
Fulbright Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, England.
. Author: Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health (with Anne Flitcraft, M.D.) 1996
. Author of best selling text: Responding to Domestic Violence (with Eva Buzawa) 6th Edition 2020
- Co-Director with Anne of the Yale Trauma Studies, path-breaking research that was the first to document the significance of domestic violence for women’s physical, mental and behavioral health as well as its links to child abuse.
- Co-Director with Anne of The Domestic Violence Training Project, a nationally recognized program of technical assistance for health, justice and child welfare professionals.
Co-Chair, U.S. Surgeon General’s Working Group on Domestic Violence Prevention. Under C. Everett Koop (with Anne Flitcraft, MD)
- Co-founder of the New Haven Project for Battered Women, an early shelter (with Anne Flitcraft, MD, et al.
- Recipient of numerous awards from governments, professional associations, advocacy organizations and universities, including the Sanctity of Life Award from Brandeis University and (with Anne) the First Annual Trendsetters Award from the National Health Councils 'For Two Decades of Pioneering Contributions to Women's Health."
EDUCATION: BS from Brandeis University,; MA in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin; Ph.D in sociology from SUNY-Binghamton and an M.S.W from Fordham University.
. Social Work trainee at the U.S. Veteran’s Hospital, National Centers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Research Associate, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Yale University.
. Visiting Professor, SUNY-Stonybrook, the University of Essex and the University of Bristol.
Evan and Anne are the parents of four children and grandparents of two and live in Woodbridge, CT..
Evan complements his forensic practice, writing and lecturing by playing piano, reading novels, watching Netflix and rooting for the NY Yankees.
HIghlights of Evan's career include:
. Provided Expert Evidence to the Royal High Court of Appeals in England in the Sally Challen Case.
. Appointed by Fedreral Circuit Court to the Nicholson Review Panel as representative for plaintiff mothers to oversee compliance with injunction by by NYC's Administration for Children's Services (ACS).
- Expert in more than 100 criminal, family, civil and child welfare cases, including Nicholson v. Williams, a successful federal class action against New York City that ended the removal of children from non-offending victims of domestic violence.
. Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh.
. Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) in Newark, New Jersey.
Fulbright Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Colchester, England.
. Author: Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health (with Anne Flitcraft, M.D.) 1996
. Author of best selling text: Responding to Domestic Violence (with Eva Buzawa) 6th Edition 2020
- Co-Director with Anne of the Yale Trauma Studies, path-breaking research that was the first to document the significance of domestic violence for women’s physical, mental and behavioral health as well as its links to child abuse.
- Co-Director with Anne of The Domestic Violence Training Project, a nationally recognized program of technical assistance for health, justice and child welfare professionals.
Co-Chair, U.S. Surgeon General’s Working Group on Domestic Violence Prevention. Under C. Everett Koop (with Anne Flitcraft, MD)
- Co-founder of the New Haven Project for Battered Women, an early shelter (with Anne Flitcraft, MD, et al.
- Recipient of numerous awards from governments, professional associations, advocacy organizations and universities, including the Sanctity of Life Award from Brandeis University and (with Anne) the First Annual Trendsetters Award from the National Health Councils 'For Two Decades of Pioneering Contributions to Women's Health."
EDUCATION: BS from Brandeis University,; MA in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin; Ph.D in sociology from SUNY-Binghamton and an M.S.W from Fordham University.
. Social Work trainee at the U.S. Veteran’s Hospital, National Centers for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Research Associate, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Yale University.
. Visiting Professor, SUNY-Stonybrook, the University of Essex and the University of Bristol.
Evan and Anne are the parents of four children and grandparents of two and live in Woodbridge, CT..
Evan complements his forensic practice, writing and lecturing by playing piano, reading novels, watching Netflix and rooting for the NY Yankees.