Professor Donna Coker will receive the Mary E. Doyle Award at the 73rd annual “Morning Spirits” & Homecoming Breakfast on Saturday, November 5th. The award is given annually by Miami Law Women to a School of Law faculty member and is named in honor of the late Mary Doyle, who served as dean of Miami Law from 1986 through 1994.
Coker is a nationally recognized expert in intimate partner violence law and policy. Her scholarship focuses on criminal law, gender, and race inequality. Her research concerns the connection between economic vulnerability and IPV; restorative justice responses to IPV and sexual harm; and the intersections of gender and race subordination in criminal law doctrine, policy, and application. Her research is interdisciplinary and influenced by scholarship in critical race feminism, restorative justice, public health, and criminology.
Coker has twice received the Provost’s Research Award in 2017 and 2021 and was awarded the Hausler Golden Apple teaching award in 2015. Professor Coker also served as Academic Associate Dean from 2005-2009.
