The overarching aim of Dr. Marcantonio's research program is to reduce alcohol related sexual violence via understanding how alcohol use impacts prevention efforts to sexual violence or increases the risk for sexual violence to occur. To address alcohol-related sexual violence, her research program has three focus areas. First, she examines how alcohol use could influence people’s sexual consent communication or how they communicate their willingness to engage in sexual activity. Second, she examines how alcohol use could impede someone’s ability to stop, or bystand, when they witness a potential experience of sexual violence. Finally, she examines how people communicate a sexual refusal or how people communicate their unwillingness to engage in sexual activity and how alcohol intoxication relates to refusing.
