Biographical / Historical
Conditions Governing Use
Preferred Citation
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Scope and Contents
Conditions Governing Access
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Nicole Baran papers
Creator:
Baran, Nicole
Identifier/Call Number: SC1269
Physical Description:
40 Linear Feet
(31 boxes)
Physical Description:
21 megabyte(s)
(5 .pdf files)
Date (inclusive): 1994-2015
Language of Material: English
Physical Location: Special Collections and University Archives
materials are stored offsite and must be paged 48 hours in advance. For more information on
paging collections, see the department's website:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc.
Biographical / Historical
Nicole Baran is from San Francisco and received her BA and MA in English from Stanford
University (2000 and 2001) and Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Washington University in
St. Louis (2003), with a specialization in management and a focus on domestic violence
research. Nicole founded the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness (the Center) in 2005, a
nonprofit that educates and trains communities, institutions and young leaders to take
action to end violence against women. As of 2015, the Center’s website,
www.stoprelationshipabuse.org, provides professional resources to an
average of 40,000 unique visitors per month from 196 countries. Nicole taught in the
Feminist Studies Program at Stanford University from 2006-2007 to 2013-2014 after developing
the course FEMST 138/238 (FEMGEN 138/238) Violence Against Women: Theories, Issues, and
Prevention. She changed the course in 2016-2017 to Men’s Violence Against Women: A Social & Critical Analysis.
The motivation to start the Center and include a Stanford student leadership program was
inspired by the concept that Stanford is a leader in research and innovation-- why can’t it
be a leader in ending violence against women? In 2006, Nicole successfully partnered with
Stanford University to institutionalize a comprehensive response to gender-based violence on
campus. Stanford hired the Center to manage a five-year grant from the USJDOJ Office on
Violence Against Women; Nicole also wrote the proposal to the provost in 2010 to establish
Stanford’s first Office on Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse (SARA). In her 2014 op-ed
in the Stanford Daily, “Stanford Drops the Ball on Sexual Assault Cases,” Nicole writes “The
Center wrote the proposal to establish the Office of Sexual Assault and Relationship Abuse
in hopes that an official office would lead to greater change, but until the SARA office
reports directly to the Provost or President of the University, we will continue to see
ineffective and inadequate responses to these issues.” She writes, “The Center decided to
stop working with Stanford in 2011 largely due to the fact that the people in power at
Stanford continued to prioritize liability over student safety.”
Prior to the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness, she was the Grant and Contract
Manager at the Support Network for Battered Women in Mountain View. Previously, she worked
for the Greenbook Initiative (a national collaboration) in St. Louis and produced state
guidelines regarding the response of domestic violence service providers to the
co-occurrence of child maltreatment and domestic violence. She conducted national trainings
and contributed to publications to improve the institutional response to gender-based
violence from 2001-2015. She delivered over 350 customized workshops to organizations such
as Kaiser Permanente, the San Francisco Bar Association, the Family Violence Prevention Fund
(Futures Without Violence), and CPEDV, California’s State Domestic Violence Coalition. One
of her specific research areas was analyzing the impact of the anti-feminist backlash on
research and practices in the movement to end gender-based violence.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/spc/using-collections/permission-publish. Restrictions also
apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is
restricted to research and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], Nicole Baran papers (SC1269). Department of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nicole Baran, 2015.
Scope and Contents
Materials related to the course developed by Nicole Baran, FEMST 138/238 (FEMGEN 138/238):
Violence Against Women: Theories, Issues and Prevention, and materials related to the
nonprofit created by Nicole Baran, the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness (founded
2005). Includes outside training manuals and research articles used to inform the work;
training materials and handouts, organization and program documents, correspondence, intern
projects and materials; 2010 proposal to establish the first Office of Sexual Assault and
Relationship Abuse at Stanford; publication for the Greenbook Initiative; MSW papers;
research articles and presentations about the backlash against the movement to end
gender-based violence; Stanford Daily Op-Ed critiquing Stanford’s response to sexual
violence in 2014; and website of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness,
www.stoprelationshipabuse.org
Conditions Governing Access
Series 1-2, 4-9, 19-29, and 32-38 are restricted until 2026; Series 31 is restricted until
2066.
Series 3, 10-18, 30, and 39 are open for research use; materials must be requested at
least 48 hours in advance of intended use. Audio-visual materials are not available in
original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Family violence.
Women -- Crimes against.
Women -- Violence against.
Relationship abuse.
Sexual assault.
Sexual violence.
Domestic violence.
FEMST 138
Violence against women -- Theories and prevention.
Baran, Nicole
Baran, Nicole
Center For Relationship Abuse Awareness.
Stanford University. Office of Sexual Assault &
Relationship Abuse Education & Response (SARA).