Wojciech Kaczkowski
Alumni- Education
Wojciech Kaczkowski earned his Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Georgia State in 2020. He went on to accept an Evaluation Fellowship at the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health. There, he is working on programs on sexual health education and domestic violence prevention. Kaczkowski earned his B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from University of Georgia and his M.A. in Psychology from Wake Forest University.
- Biography
Research interests focus on social and cultural factors that contribute to the development of violent behaviors and attitudes. Specifically, he is interested in examining risk and protective factors for gender-based violence and radicalization into violent extremism, as well as the relationship between these two forms of violent behavior.
Kaczkowski’s experience includes work as a project manager for John Templeton Foundation’s Life Paths Research Program in Sewanee, Tennessee. Currently, his research looks at the use of images of children in Islamic State propaganda, the qualitative analysis of first-hand narratives of sexual violence perpetration, and the bystander intervention in situations involving sexual aggression.
Kaczkowski also worked on a MINERVA-granted project to investigate the Pathways of Child Mobilization into Violent Extremist Organizations. He also teaches in the Department of Psychology and mentors other students with their research. Kaczkowski also serves as an Advisor and Coordinator for the Violence against Women Prevention Lab.
- Publications
Kaczkowski, W., Winkler, C., El Damanhoury, K., Luu, Y. (2020). Intersections of the Real and the Virtual Caliphates: The Islamic State’s Territory and Media Campaign, Journal of Global Security Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogaa020
Kaczkowski, W., Lokmanoglu, A., & Winkler, C. (2019). Definitions matter: a comparison of the global terrorism database and the U.S. governmental reports of terrorist incidents in Western Europe, 2002-2016. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 1–18.
Winkler, C., Damanhoury, K., Kaczkowski, W., & Dicker, A. (2018). Examining the military-media nexus in ISIS’s provincial visual campaign. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2018.1432869
Horgan, J., Bloom, M., Daymon, C., Kaczkowski, W., & Tiflati, H. (2017). A new age of terror? Older fighters in the caliphate. CTC Sentinel, 10(5), 13-20.
Kaczkowski, W., Brennan, C.L., & Swartout, K.M. (2017). In good company: Social network diversity may protect men against perpetrating sexual violence. Psychology of Violence, 7(2), 276-285. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0040295
Hamby, S., Roberts, L., Taylor, E., Hagler, M., & Kaczkowski, W. (2017). Families, poly-victimization, & resilience portfolios: Understanding risk, vulnerability & protection across the span of childhood. In D. Teti (Ed.), Parenting and Family Processes in Child Maltreatment and Intervention, 3-23.
Presentations:
Kaczkowski, W. (2018). Effects of the Islamic State’s Territorial Changes on the Group’s Online Propaganda. Presented at the 2018 VOX-Pol Biennial Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kaczkowski, W. (2018). Qualitative Content Analysis of Images of Children in the Islamic State Propaganda. Presented at the 2018 Association for the Study of Nationalities World Convention, New York City, NY.
Kaczkowski, W. (2018). Sexual Health Literacy of Refugee Youths in Georgia. Presented at the 2018 ResilienceCon, Nashville, TN.
Kaczkowski, W. (2017). New Methods of Assessing Bystander Intervention for Sexual Violence in a Laboratory Experiment. Presented at the Southeastern Ecological Conference, Miami, FL.
Kaczkowski, W. (2017). Qualitative Content Analysis of Images of Children in the Islamic State Propaganda. Presented at the 16th Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 of the American Psychological Association), Ottawa, Canada.
Kaczkowski, W., & Swartout, K. (2017). The Power of Peers: The Sustained Effect of Peer Support for Sexual Aggression on Sexual Violence Perpetration among College Men. Presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference, Atlanta, GA.