Adjunct Professor, Sociology Department
Professor, Family And Consumer Studies
President-Elect Academic Senate, Academic Senate

sonia.salari@utah.edu

Professional Membership

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Member and Co-Founder, Gender Based Violence Consortium , 03/24/2020
• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 06/2019 GLOBAL GREECE UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Board of Directors, Chair , Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, 10/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Conference Committee Member, Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, 10/06/2016

Publications

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S. (2021). Family Violence Across the Life Course: Research, policy and prevention, 2nd edition. (pp. 456). Vol. 2, Kendall Hunt Publishers., 08/23/2021 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S. & Sillito, C.L. (2020). Homicide-suicide by men against female intimate partners. Sage Publishing., 12/21/2020 UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S., Sillito, C.L. & Allen, T. (2020). USA Violent Cause Mortality: Analysis of Trends and the Political Controversies of Prevention. Athens Journal of Social Sciences. Vol. 7(4), 227-246., 10/2020 UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Allen, Terry, Salari, Sonia & Buckner, Glen (2020). Homicide Illustrated Across the Ages: Graphic depictions of victim and offender age, sex and relationship. Journal of Aging and Health. Vol. 32(3), 162-174. Article, Refereed Journal, First Published Online 12/2018 Journal Issue Published, 03/2020., 03/2020 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia, Ajrouch, Kristine, & Aydin, May "Aging and Later Life: Barriers and Adaptations Based on Immigration and Nativity Status" In Mona Amer and Germine Awad (Eds) Handbook of Arab American Psychology, New York: Routledge., 01/2016 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S.& Sillito, C.L. Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide: Perpetrator primary intent across young, middle aged, and elder adult age categories. Aggression and Violent Behavior 26, 26-34, 01/2016 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari (2015). Family Violence Across the Life Course: Research, policy and prevention. (pp. 252). Kendall Hunt., 01/2015 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Carrie LeFevre Sillito & Sonia Salari Child Outcomes and Risk Factors in U.S. Homicide-Suicide Cases 1999–2004, Journal of Family Violence Volume 26, Number 4, 285-297, 03/2011 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S. Elder Mistreatment, In Setterston, R. & Angel, J. Handbook of Sociology of Aging, 415-430 Springer New York, 03/2011 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia (2007) Patterns of Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide in Later Life: Strategies for prevention. Clinical Interventions in Aging. October 2 (3) Dove Medical Press, 10/02/2007 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari (2007) Women, Gender and Aging Across the Life Course: United States. In Joseph, S. (Ed). Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, Brill Publishers: Netherlands, 01/2007 GLOBAL UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia (2006) Infantilization as Elder Mistreatment: Evidence from 5 Adult Day Centers. Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect. Vol 17(4) 53-91, 01/2006 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Shin Sook Lee & Sonia Salari (2005) “Korean and American Undergraduate Student’s Knowledge and Attitudes toward the Elderly and Aging” Korean Association of Family Relations-- Journal of Family Relations December 195-218., 12/2005 REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari (2002) Invisible in Aging Research: Arab Americans, Muslims and Middle Eastern Immigrants in the United States. The Gerontologist. Vol. 42( 5) 580-588. October., 10/2002 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari (2002). Intergenerational Partnerships in Aging Services: Importance of Age Appropriate Environments and Behaviors The Gerontologist, Vol. 42:(3)321-333, 06/2002 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia M. Salari & Bret Baldwin (2002). Verbal, Physical & Injurious Couple Aggression Over Time. Journal of Family Issues. Vol. 23(4)523-550 (May)., 05/2002
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia M. Salari and Melinda Rich (2001). Social and Environmental Infantilization of Elderly Persons: Observations in Two Adult Day Care Centers. International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 52(2) 115-134, 10/2001
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Miner and Stewart Tolnay (1998). Barriers to Voluntary Organization Membership: An Examination of Race and Cohort Differences in Participation. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Sept. 53B(5)S241-S248., 09/1998
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Miner and Peter Uhlenberg (1997). Intragenerational Proximity and the Social Role of Sibling Neighbors after Midlife. Family Relations April, 46:145-153 DOI: 10.2307/585038, 04/1997
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Miner (1995). Racial Differences in Family Support and Formal Service Utilization Among Older Persons: A Non-recursive Model. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Vol. 50B:3, S143-S153., 01/1995

Presentations

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2022 Salari, S. Policy Platter COVID and Domestic Violence Research, FCS Department , 02/02/2022
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari S, Talboys S, Fukushima A, et al. Multi-method Examination of Elder Mistreatment in the Age of COVID-19 Innovation in Aging. 2021 Jan;5(Suppl 1):771-771. PMCID: PMC8681428. , 11/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2021 Salari, S. PhD (Presenter) and DVAC Team – Talboys, S., Fukushima, AI, Melton, H., Petersen, M. & Seage, M. Measuring a Multidemic: A Mixed-Methods Study of COVID-19 Impacts on Domestic Violence Across the Life-Course, VPR & 3i Immunology, Inflammation & Infectious Disease Symposium, June 4 (12:50 - 1:05 PM) , 06/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2021 Salari, S (Moderator) GBVC Moderator Symposium Visualizing Change, Resisting Violence, Apr. 15-16., 04/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2021 Salari, S., Fukushima, AI, Ziwei Qi, April Terry Mar 16, Research and Social Activism on Gender-Based Violence: Virtual Roundtable Event, Ft. Hays University Facebook Live and Recorded Zoom Event , 03/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2020 Liou, CL & Salari, S. East and West Ethnography: Lessons from Taiwan and the United States. , 11/2020 TAIWAN UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2020 Salari, S. Family Violence and Child Welfare: Lethality Assessment Protocol. Presentation to Utah State Court Mediators 2/27/2020 , 02/27/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019 Salari, S., Sillito, C Policies & Prevention of US Women’s Violent Death Across Ages, GSA 11/15 Austin TX, 11/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019 Salari, S. Panelist Interpersonal Abuse and U: Family Violence Across the Life Course. April 2. 1110 SFEBB Honors Praxis Lab Panel, University of Utah , 04/02/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019 President’s Leadership Council – Prevention and Reduction of IPV, Stalking on Campus 3/20, 03/20/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019 Policy Platter Policies and Prevention of Fatal Violence in Families, 3/6/2019, 03/06/2019 UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia USA Violent Cause Mortality: Analysis of trends and prevention controversies, 6th Annual international Conference on Demography and Population Studies, Athens, Greece, 01/2019 GLOBAL UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Yang, Yiqing & Salari, Sonia Defining Elder Mistreatment: Point of View From Non-Abused Older Chinese Adults, Gerontological Society of America, Boston , 11/2018 GLOBAL ASIA CHINA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Yang, Yiqing & Salari, S. Defining Elder Mistreatment: Point of view from non-abused older Chinese Adults, 03/15/2018 CHINA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S. & Allen, T. The Perfect Storm: Lethal behavior of baby boom men in later life, Submitted to Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA , 03/15/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia & Melton, Heather (Invited) Domestic Violence Panel, Guest speaker in Law School Linda Smith, Criminal Procedure Law Family Violence, 02/02/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia Elder Fatal Domestic Violence, Adult Protective Services, Salt Lake City, UT , 01/23/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, S. Fatal Family Violence Across the Life Course, UNCC University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Gerontology Center and Department of Health Psychology. 11/17/2017, 11/17/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Durham, L. & Salari, S. Family Well-being Under the Influence: Recognizing the role of substance abuse in domestic violence. Utah Domestic Violence Coalition UDVC, Annual Conference, Provo, Utah, 11/14/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Utah Film Center, Call Me Dad --Australian film about family violence Panelist, 10/03/2017 AUSTRALIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Yang, Yiqing, Wen, Ming & Salari, Sonia Mistreatment and Psychological Resilience Among Older Chinese Adults and the Moderating Role of Social Support, IAGG World Congress, San Francisco, CA, 07/23/2017 CHINA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia & Allen, Terry Intimate Femicide in Later Life: The role of policy in prevention International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics IAGG World Congress, San Francisco, CA 07/23/2017, 07/23/2017 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salari, Sonia Fatalities Among Intimate Partners Across the Life Course. Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, Provo Convention Center Ballroom, 10/06/2016
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari & Carrie Sillito Abstract submitted “Late Life Family Disasters: Preventing Fatalities from Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide.” International Federation on Aging IFA Brisbane Australia, June 21-23. , 06/2016 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sonia Salari “Why Men Kill Their Families/ Intimate Partner Homicide and Suicide.” Generations Conference, Salt Palace Convention Center, 9:15-10:30am. Invited talk, Salt Lake City. April 1. , 04/2016
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2009 Neighborhood and Community Trauma: Responses to Mid and Later Life Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide Paper Presentation Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta GA, Nov 21., 11/21/2009
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2007 (with C. Sillito & Prospero, M.) Intimate Partner Homicide Suicide Patterns and Comparisons for Young Adult, Middle Aged and Elderly Intimate Partners 1999-2005. Fatal Family Violence Symposium, IFAS International Family Aggression Society, University of Central Lancashire, UK March , 03/2007 UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES

Teaching

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: HON 3700 Family Violence Praxis Lab, 08/21/2018-05/15/2019
• FOOD SYSTEMS | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: FCS 5343/6343 (formerly FCS3430, FCS5962/6962) Family Policy & Advocacy or Intro Family Policy course has students opt to lobby the Utah State Legislature every spring semester--with community partners such as United Way, YWCA, UCASA, CORC, Utah Commission on Aging, SL County Aging, Sego Stategies, Utah Cultural Alliance, HEAL Utah, Utah Health Policy Project, Equality Utah, Utahns Against Hunger, and many others--

Internal Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Co-PI CSBS Equity Diversity and Inclusion Climate Survey, 03/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019-present CSBS Equity, Diversity and Inclusion EDI Committee, 09/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Guest Panelist, Criminal Process Law Course, Dr. Linda Smith, annual, 02/02/2018-02/08/2019

External Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Utah Domestic Violence Coalition, UDVC Board of Directors, 2021-2022 Chair, 10/02/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Adult Protective Services, APS Presenter on topic of fatal intimate partner violence later life, 01/23/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Utah Film Center, Panelist for film "Call me Dad", 10/03/2017 AUSTRALIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Utah Domestic Violence Coalition- Serve on Annual Conference Committee, annual presentations, 10/2016-10/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Generations Conference, Invited Keynote Presenter, 04/01/2016

Professional Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Reviewed manuscript submitted to VAW, Violence Against Women, 12/13/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Invited Keynote Guest Speaker Series Gerontology Center and Department of Health Psychology, University of North Carolina Charlotte, 11/17/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Grant Proposal Review, National Science Foundation, 04/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: professional review of submitted manuscripts, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 01/2017 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Panel Workshop, National Institutes of Health NIH, 10/30/2015 GLOBAL

Media

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: KZMU Radio, Moab Utah, Response to Police Investigation of Gabby Petito /Brian Laundrie Case – Commenting on the Police Treatment at Traffic Stop in Moab, Interview by Justin Higginbottom 1/17/2022 , 01/17/2022
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: KUTV2NEWS 5pm News Interviewed by Kelly Vaughn Experts Concerned Over Rise in Gun Sales, Domestic Violence Cases in Utah, , 05/24/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: KSL News 5 pm News Interviewed by Garna Mejia, Three Utahns Killed in Possible Domestic Violence Incidents , 05/23/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: FOX 13 5pm News Interviewed by Stephen Romney about Domestic Violence Homicide Case Shandon Scott on 1-80, Topic: firearms and domestic violence histories, 05/03/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: ABC4 May 3, 2021 10 pm News Interviewed by Jason Nguyen Fatal Domestic Violence Story , 05/03/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Utah Magazine (Jan 2021) Sharp Contrast - The Pandemic Has Widened the Inequality Gap for Women: The U is working to change that, Heather May, 01/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salt Lake Tribune July 19, 2020 University of Utah Researchers Team Up to Study Gender-Based Violence in State, 07/19/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: @TheU Mapping Gender Based Violence , 06/30/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: COVID-19 Seed Grants Details Press Release (4/20/2020) , 04/20/2020
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Star Tribune (4/10/2019) Irwin Jacobs, wife Alexandra dead in murder-suicide, close friend says. ML. Smith, P. Walsh, J. Lake Minnetonka, MN. (Interviewed IPHS Research), 04/10/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Daily Utah Chronicle (4/3/2019) The Honors College Praxis Labs Holds Interpersonal Violence Seminar, By Nicholas Rush , 04/03/2019
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Lohud.com Rockland/Westchester Journal News (8/10/18) What is Mercy Killing? Does Richard DeLucia’s murder-suicide qualify? By Jordan Fenster & Podcast , 08/10/2018
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salt Lake Tribune, Front Page As Gun Deaths Continue to Rise in America, Social Scientists Wonder why so Many Feel the Need to Carry Firearms, By Christopher Smart , 04/29/2018 GLOBAL NORTH AMERICA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: The Trace 2/13/18 (interview with Jennifer Mascia 2/1/2018) Murder Suicide by Gun is an Everyday Occurrence in America , 02/13/2018 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: VICE A Grisly New Year’s Killing Shows how little we know about Murder-suicides by Sonja Sharp , 01/17/2018 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Top of Mind, Sonia Salari, Guest “The Link Between Mass Shootings, Domestic Violence and Suicide.” 14 min., nationwide radio interview with Julie Rose, BYURadio.org Sirius Radio Channel 143, , 11/22/2017 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Sunday Edition, KSL & Deseret News Sunday Morning Show, Domestic Violence Homicide and Mass Shootings, Guest appearance Sonia Salari 12 min. Salt Lake City, Utah 2017 , 11/12/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: The Harold They had a suicide pact he said. But he was not ready to die. He murdered her, prosecutors say. haroldonline.com article 160490644 by Michael Gordan and Caroline Metzler, 07/10/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: The Charlotte Observer, Did Elderly Charlotte Man Murder His Wife of 33 Years – Or was it a mercy killing? M. Gordon & Metzler, C. 7/7/2017 , 07/07/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Gillette News Record 2017 Look, Listen and Stop Elder Abuse by Melissa Erikson Gillette, WY , 04/13/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Dallas News Jacquielynn Floyd 'Elderly Murder Suicide: Call it desperation, but don't call it love.' Metro Columnist Commentary. Dallasnews.com , 03/09/2017 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: ABC4 Interview by Glen Beeby "West Valley Murder-suicide Marks Disturbing Utah Trend", 01/13/2017
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Wallethub Ask the Experts Elder Abuse: States with the Best Elder Abuse Protections. Interview with Richie Bernardo, 12/07/2016 UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: ABC-4 Deadly American Fork Shooting Brings Awareness to Domestic Violence: Intimate terrorism: double shooting shows dangers, Interview with Rick Aarons, 12/06/2016
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Washington Post Domestic Violence Advocate Killed by Husband: Few red flags., 03/16/2016 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Dayton Beach News Journal Murder-suicides among elderly driven by illness, depression Research shows elderly men kill their wives and then themselves about every two weeks in Florida , 10/11/2015
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Salt Lake Tribune Utah's recent family murder-suicides: Why do they do it? , 06/28/2015
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Deseret News— Life and Family Section “Abuse is the Focus of U. Sociologist", 11/14/2002

Grants

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: Gender Based Violence Consortium 1U4U Innovation Grant. PI: Annie Fukushima. Co-PI(s): Sonia Salari, 08/2020-08/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY: 2019 Gender Based Violence Seed Grant 1U4U . PI: Annie Fukushima. Co-PI(s): Sonia Salari, 03/2019