Sarah VanHooser Suiter is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University. She completed her doctoral training in Community, Research & Action at Vanderbilt University, where she also received a Masters in Community Development. Sarah’s research interests include addiction and mental illness, especially among women, and the (potential) role of communities in providing a context for healing. Sarah has conducted research with communities in Ecuador, Argentina, and the United States. Her most recent project was an ethnography of a two-year residential recovery community for women with histories of abuse, addiction, and prostitution. She is currently conducting qualitative research on the relational and spiritual processes of recovery in men and women living in North Carolina.
