Nadeeka Karunaratne, PhD

educator, scholar, trauma-informed yoga instructor

Publications

Books

Linder, C., Karunaratne, N., & Grimes, N. S. (in press). Thinking like an abolitionist to end sexual violence in higher education. Routledge.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Karunaratne, N. (2025). An analysis of the dating violence disclosure experiences of women and femme college students of color using representational and political intersectionality. The Journal of Higher Education. Advanced online publication.

Karunaratne, N., & Aguilar Marquez, K. (2024). The role of spirituality in healing from sexual and relationship violence in higher education. Journal of Trauma Studies in Education, 3(3), 74-95.

Karunaratne, N. (2024). The influence of family and culture on South Asian student dating violence survivors’ college experiences. Journal of American College Health, 72(9), 3725-3733. 

Karunaratne, N. (2023). Toward a methodology of healing: Promoting radical healing among student survivors through research. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 16(1), 39-51.

Karunaratne, N. (2023). Fostering (re)connections: South Asian students healing from dating violence. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 16(2), 131-143. 

Karunaratne, N., & Harris, J. C. (2022). Women of Color student survivors’ perceptions of campus sexual assault prevention programming. Violence Against Women, 28(15-16), 3801-3824.

Harris, J. C., Karunaratne, N., & Gutzwa, J. A. (2021). Effective modalities for healing from campus sexual assault: Centering the experiences of women of color undergraduate student survivors. Harvard Educational Review, 91(2), 248-272. 

Boss, G. J., Karunaratne, N., Huang, C., Beavers, A., Pegram-Floyd, V., & Tullos, K. C. (2019). “It’s a double-edged sword”: A collaborative autoethnography of Women of Color higher education and student affairs administrators who teach in the college classroom. NASPA Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 12(2), 166-185.

Porter, C. J., Mlambo, Y. A., Hannibal, J., & Karunaratne, N. (2018). (Re)Defining student success: A qualitative study of Black undergraduate women pursuing veterinary medicine. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 24(1), 61-80. 

Karunaratne N., Koppel L., & yang, c. i. (2016). Navigating a social justice motivation and praxis as student affairs professionals. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education & Student Affairs, 3(1), 1-19.

Book Chapters

Karunaratne, N. (2024). Queer Women and Femme students of Color seeking help after surviving dating violence in college. In D. Mitchell, J. Marie, & P. Carver (Eds.), Intersectionality & higher education: Theory, research and praxis (4th ed.). Peter Lang.

Karunaratne, N. (2022). Creating environments of healing on campus: Lessons from Women of Color yoga instructors healing trauma. In L. Douglass, A. Threlkeld, & L. R. Merriweather (Eds.), Trauma in adult and higher education: Conversations and critical reflections (pp. 335-350). Information Age.

Harris, J. C., Cobian, K., & Karunaratne, N. (2020). Re-imagining the study of campus sexual assault. In L.W. Perna (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research (Vol. 35). Springer.

Karunaratne, N., Huang, C., Boss, G. J., & Beavers, A. (2019). Uplifting counter-narratives: The experiences of women of color student affairs professionals teaching in white classrooms. In U. M. Robinson-Nichols, M. G. Burke & L. Hall (Eds.), No ways tired: The journey for professionals of color in student affairs (Vol. 1, pp. 75-86). Information Age.

Reports & Public Scholarship

Creighton, J. (2025, May 29). Abolitionist perspectives on sexual violence in higher ed: Building community and healing [Audio podcast episode]. In SA Voices from the Field. naspastories.libsyn.com/
abolitionist-perspectives-on-sexual-violence-in-higher-ed-building-community-and-healing

Commodore, F., & Johnson, R. M. (2024, December 10). The new generation of scholars (No. 2) [Audio podcast episode]. In ASHE Presidential Podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-3-episode-2-the-new-generation-of-scholars/id1641816344?i=1000679941417

Edwards, K. (2024, November 20). Thinking like an abolitionist to end sexual violence in higher education (No. 232) [Audio podcast episode]. In Student Affairs NOW. studentaffairsnow.com/thinking-like-an-abolitionist-to-end-sexual-violence-in-higher-education/

Mcbane, J. (2024, November 7). An abolitionist approach to ending sexual violence [Audio podcast episode]. In The New Consent Narrative. thenewconsentnarrative.buzzsprout.com/2183286/episodes/16021482-an-abolitionist-approach-to-ending-sexual-violence

Bellows, K. H. (2022, September 6). Race on campus: Healing for sexual-assault survivors of color. The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/race-on-campus/2022-09-06

Fonseca, D., Gonzalez, M., Hart, A. N., Karunaratne, N., Lee, A., Legaspi, G., Ogbuli, K., Osorio, H., Puckett, A., Roychoudhury, D., Sánchez Castillo, M., Sass, A., Son, K., & Weatherford, S. (2022, March). The history of racism and the quest for racial justice at UCLA. UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. https://luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/lchp-reports/

Karunaratne, N. (2019, August 27). Connections between the “prison nation” and campus sexual violence [Blog post]. www.csw.ucla.edu/2019/08/27/connections-between-the-prison-nation-and-campus-sexual-violence 

Karunaratne, N. (2017, September 1). An intersectional framework for sexual violence prevention education [Blog post]. www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/09/01/sexual-violence-prevention-requires-focusing-how-multiple-forms-oppression