Dr. Tricia Shalka (she/her) is an associate professor of higher education at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education & Human Development whose research explores the impacts of traumatic experience(s) on college students, as well as how trauma-informed practices can inform the work of both administrators and faculty in higher education. Dr. Shalka is the author of Cultivating Trauma-Informed Practice in Student Affairs (Routledge). Her research has appeared in some of the top journals in higher education and she has won several awards for both her scholarship and teaching.

Prior to becoming a faculty member, Dr. Shalka spent several years working in higher education administration in areas such as residential life, fraternity and sorority life, institutional assessment, and development and alumni relations. She credits those experiences for actively shaping her scholarship and teaching. Dr. Shalka holds a PhD from the Ohio State University, a MA from the University of Maryland, and a BA from Dartmouth College.