Biography

Sherianne Kramer is a social science researcher and lecturer at the Amsterdam University College and the Amsterdam Council on International Educational Exchange. She is also a member of the Critical Violence Studies research thrust in the in the Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), where she previously held a permanent position. Prior to joining Wits, she worked as a researcher at the University of South Africa's Institute for Social and Health Sciences as well as taught at Monash University. Her work has involved national-level crime and violence prevention as well as critically-oriented violence-related research; publication of findings in books and accredited journals; presentation of this research at both local and international conferences and workshops; the coordination and development of research projects; and lecturing, supervision and mentoring of students and interns. Her research interests are primarily focused within the social science and critical psychology disciplines and include crime and violence; female and child perpetrated physical and sexual transgression; male victimhood; and gender and sexual identity and performativity. She completed her PhD in 2014 in the area of female sexual perpetration with a focus on the victims of these crimes. Her book titled, Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. Sherianne’s current research is focused on child and female perpetrations of violence and male victims. This research was awarded a competitive NRF Thuthuka Grant and was also attached to a European Research Council Grant that funded collaborative work with researchers on the Becoming Men: Masculinities in Urban Africa Project which is part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research housed in the Anthropology Department at the University of Amsterdam. Sherianne has received a number of other grants and various awards for her research, including The Feroza Adams Award for community involvement, research ability and academic prowess. Sherianne is a registered research psychologist and chaired the Psychological Society of South Africa Division for Research and Methodology between 2015 and 2017. She is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Social and Political Psychology.