Chris Divin, a doctoral student in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, and a 2014 recipient of the Frances Fowler Wallace Award from the Hogg Foundation, has recently completed her dissertation, “Exploring the Lived Experience of Intimate Partner Violence and Salutogenesis in Aging Mexican-American Women.” Her study attempts to bring to light the experience of intimate partner violence among elderly Mexican American women.
Frances Fowler Wallace, the award’s namesake, was married to John Forsythe Wallace, who served as a member of the Texas House of Representatives and the State Board of Control. She died July 18, 1972, in Austin at the age of 80. The Wallace Award provides partial support for doctoral students’ dissertation research on “the cause, treatment, cure, and prevention of mental disease, mental illness, and mental disorders,” as directed in her will. The award provides up to $1,500 for research-related expenses.
We talked to Chris Divin about her research.
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