Selected Publications
Books
Nichols, Andrea, Edmond, Tonya, and Heil, Erin. (Eds.) (2018). Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Gerassi, Lara and Nichols, Andrea. 2017. Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice. New York, NY: Springer Publishing.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2016. Sex Trafficking in the United States: Theory, Research, Policy and Practice. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Heil, Erin and Nichols, Andrea J. 2015. Human Trafficking in the Midwest: A Case Study of St. Louis and the Bi-State Area. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2014. Feminist Advocacy: Gendered Organizations in Community-Based Responses to Domestic Violence. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Selected Articles
Nichols, Andrea, Gerassi, Lara, & Snider, Kelly. 2018. "What’s in a Name? Benefits and Challenges of the Anti-Trafficking Language in Practitioner Perspective." Journal of Human Trafficking. Special Edition. Media & Human Trafficking: Negotiating Meaning, Representation, and Change. Barbara Friedman, Ed., 4(1), 73-85.
Nichols, Andrea & Heil, Erin. 2017. "Challenges to Prosecuting Buyers as Traffickers in Human Trafficking Cases: Implications of U.S. v Jungers and U.S. v. Bonestroo." Dignity: A Journal on Sexual Exploitation and Violence, 2(4), 1-18.
Gerassi, Lara, Nichols, Andrea, & *Michelson, Erica. 2017. "Lessons Learned: Benefits and Challenges in Community Based Responses to Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation." Journal of Human Trafficking, 3(4), 285-302.
Nichols, Andrea J. and Heil, Erin. 2014. "Challenges to Identifying and Prosecuting Sex Trafficking Cases in the Midwest United States." Feminist Criminology, 9(2), 1-30.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2014. "No-Drop Prosecution in Domestic Violence Cases: Survivor-Defined and Social Change Practices." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 29(11), 2114-2142.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2013. "Meaning-Making and Domestic Violence Victim Advocacy: An Examination of Feminist Identities, Ideologies, and Practices." Feminist Criminology 8(3),177- 201. +Best Article of the Year Award Winner 2014, Feminist Criminology
Nichols, Andrea J. 2013. "Survivor-Defined Practices to Mitigate Revictimization of Battered Women in the Protective Order Process." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 28(7).
Selected Book Chapters
Nichols, Andrea J. (2018). "Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of LGBTQ* People: Implications for Practice." In Nichols, Andrea, Edmond, Tonya, and Heil, Erin. (Eds.) Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Columbia University Press.
Nichols, Andrea J. (2018). "Prevention and Outreach to At-Risk Groups." In Nichols, Andrea, Edmond, Tonya, and Heil, Erin. (Eds.) Social Work Practice with Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation. Columbia University Press.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2016. "Global Inequality and Human Trafficking: The Organ and Tissue Trade." In Heil, Erin and Nichols, Andrea J. 2016. (Eds.) Broadening The Scope of Human Trafficking. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Nichols, Andrea J. 2014. "The Intersectional Nature of Transgender Victimization: Police Abuses Against Transgender Sex Workers." In The Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice, edited by Dana Peterson and Vanessa R. Panfil. Springer Publishing.
Selected Honors and Awards
2018. Early Career Scholarship Award
Midwest Sociological Society
2017. Invited Testimony, Congressional Briefing. Human Trafficking and the Impact on Children and Families. Trafficking Survivors Relief Act of 2017. (H.R. 459) (S. 104). Washington D.C.
2015. New Scholar Award
American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime
2014. Carnegie Award, Missouri Professor of the Year
Carnegie Foundation, Council for Advancement and Support of Education
2014. Best Article of the Year Award, Feminist Criminology
American Society of Criminology, Division on Women and Crime
Selected Grant Projects
Principal Investigator, Strategic Plan to Address Human Trafficking in Missouri and Metro East St. Louis: Resource Development, Needs Assessment, and Innovative Solutions. With Co-Investigator Dr. Kathleen Preble, and research team. Missouri Collaborative Against Human Trafficking (2019-2020).
Principal Investigator, A Systems Analysis of Juvenile Justice Involved DMST. Midwest Sociological Society (2017-2018).
Gephardt Institute, Small Change Grant. Development of St. Louis Metro Area Human Trafficking Resource Guide. With Clementine Obama and Heidi Volkl (2017-2018).
Coordinator, Anti-Trafficking Initiative, Brown School of Social Work. Roblee Foundation (2015-18).
Co-Investigator, Human Trafficking in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area. With Dr. Rumi Price and Dr. Tonya Edmond. Washington University Institute for Public Health. PH Cube Award (2015-17).
Recent Courses
Sex Trafficking