Kerri Raissian

Associate Professor

School of Public Policy

Education

B.A., Vanderbilt University, Sociology, 2002
MPA, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2008
Ph.D., The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Public Administration, 2013

Teaching & Research Interests

Public Policy Analysis
Research Methods
Child and Family Policy
Family Violence
Child Welfare

Dr. Kerri Raissian

Kerri M. Raissian is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Connecticut.  She was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and completed her doctoral degree in Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 2013.  Her research focuses on child and family policy with an emphasis on understanding how policies affect fertility, family formation, and family violence.  Raissian’s research is interdisciplinary and draws on principles from program evaluation, economic demography, and applied microeconomics.

She has published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), Child Maltreatment, Population Research and Policy Review, the European Journal of Ageing, among others.  Her paper, “Hold Your Fire: Did the 1996 Federal Gun Control Act Expansion Reduce Domestic Homicides?” was awarded the 2016 Vernon Memorial Prize for the best paper in JPAM.  She teaches financial management for public organizations, research methods, and social policy, and she has received teaching commendations for outstanding cumulative teaching evaluations from the University of Connecticut’s Provost’s Office on multiple occasions.

Prior to academia, she worked with abused adults and children in the government and nonprofit sectors.  She currently engages agencies in Connecticut to continue this work.

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