Dr. Hu (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University College of Social Work. Her scholarship is situated in the field of gender-based violence, primarily focusing on interpersonal and structural violence against sex workers, trafficking, and intimate partner violence. Dr. Hu considers intersecting social-structural inequalities and the root causes of gender-based violence. She is committed to challenging and addressing these structural foundations of violence. She received her PhD in Social Work from the University of Toronto, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, her MSW from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, U.S., and her Bachelor’s degree in social work from Nanjing University, China.
