Dr. Shannon Peters (She/Her/Hers)
Lecturer, Sargent College
- Gender Identity: cisgender woman
- Sexual Orientation: Queer
- Race, Ethnicity, and/or Nationality: white
Shannon Peters is a licensed psychologist and lecturer at BU. Her teaching is informed by feminist theory, liberation psychology, and critical psychology. Her research and clinical interests include the impacts of systemic oppression, discrimination, and trauma on the mental health of marginalized individuals, LGBTQ+ healthcare and mental health, gender-based violence response and prevention, institutional corruption in psychiatry, and depathologizing normative distress.
Contact Dr. Peters for academic support, research support, career support, coming out, mentoring, and general networking.