Theresa Anasti

Assistant Professor, Social Work
Theresa Anasti CV

Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Social Work

Research Interests
Nonprofit Organizations; Sex Work; Human Trafficking; Housing/Homelessness; Policy Advocacy, Social Welfare Policy

Selected Publications

Gonzalez, C.M., Dewey, S., Anasti, T., Lockwood-Roberts, S., Codallos, K., Gilmer, B., Dolliver, M. (Forthcoming 2021) Good neighbors or good prisoners?: Non-uniformed staff beliefs about incarcerated people influence prison climate. Accepted in Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Dewey, S., Barry, R. Hankel, J., Dolliver, M., Anasti, T. (2021) “The Problem is Too Big for Us”: The Promises and Perils of Community-Corrections Partnerships. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2021.1936293

Anasti, T. (2021) Peer Involvement in Service Provision: How US Human Service Nonprofit Organisations Include Sex Workers as Organisational Staff. Culture, Health and Sexuality. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2021.1916076

Dewey, S., Brown, K. Hankel, J., Anasti, T. (2021) ““I was Already in the System from the Start”: How Substance-using Women in the Street Sex Trade Make Decisions about Pregnancy. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1872496

Anasti, T.(2020) “Officers Are Doing the Best They Can”: Concerns Around Law Enforcement and Social Service Collaboration in Service Provision to Sex Workers. Affilia. 35(1):49-72 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109919889034

Anasti, T. (2020). The Strategic Action Field of Sex Work and Sex Trafficking: A Case Study of a Contentious Field in Chicago.  VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 31(1): 169-183 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-019-00161-0

Anasti, T. (2020).  Street-Level Bureaucrats and Ethical Conflicts in Service Provision to Sex Workers.  Journal of Ethics and Social Welfare 14(1), 89-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2019.1664608

Wells, R. & Anasti, T. (2019).  Hybrid Models for Social Change: Legitimacy Among Community-Based Nonprofit Organizations.” VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 31, 1134–1147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-019-00126-3

Anasti, T. (2018). “Survivor or Laborer: How Social Service Managers Perceive Sex Workers?”  Affilia. 33(4) :453-476  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109918778075

Anasti, T. (2018). “The Use of Alcohol in Topless Establishments: Protection for Women or Gender Policing?” Sexualities. 23(1-2). 81-107 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717750822

*Anasti, T. (2017). “Radical Professionals?: Sex Worker Rights Activists and Collaboration with Human Service Nonprofits”. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance. 4(41), 416-437.

*Winner of the 2018 Patti-Slavin Award for Outstanding Practice Research from the Network For Social Work Management