Dr. Samuel Aymer is an associate professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. Prior to academia, Aymer worked in the field of intimate partner abuse (for over 25 years) in the role as a therapist with abused women and abusive men, as a group facilitator for batterers' treatment programs, and as a director of training for programs designed to serve victims and abusers of intimate partner abuse and community violence. Moreover, he supervised counselors and therapists who served abused women, children, and abusive men. Currently, his research and scholarship center on the multiple ways in which intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the psychosocial needs of children, women, and men. Socio-cultural factors germane to misogyny, race, culture, gender, and patriarchy underpin Aymer's scholarly pursuits in researching and writing about intimate partner violence.
