Nathan Aguilar
Provost’s Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow/Assistant Professor
PhD, LCSW
Areas of Expertise: Qualitative Research Methods, Gun Violence, Trauma, Family Systems Theory, Survivorship, Community Violence Intervention, Hospital Based Violence Intervention
Biography
Dr. Nathan Aguilar is a Provost’s Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow/Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work. His research is informed by nearly a decade of performing community and hospital-based violence intervention as well as clinical therapy with gang involved individuals and gunshot survivors in Chicago and Brooklyn.
Leveraging his experience, Dr. Aguilar collaborates with violence intervention organizations and interdisciplinary scholars to develop participatory research projects. Together, they aim to understand the effects of gun violence on male and female survivors, their family members, and outreach workers. Dr. Aguilar’s future research will translate descriptive knowledge from these participatory research projects to intervention efforts that can improve social work practices aimed at reducing community-based gun violence.
Dr. Aguilar completed his PhD at Columbia School of Social Work, his MSW from Washington University in St. Louis and his BS in Business Management from the University of Colorado Denver.
Publications
“You Never Know Who’s Gonna Be Next”: The Role of Community Violence Intervention Workers in Responding to Homicides and Survivor Support
Bocanegra, K. & Aguilar, N., Feb 2025,
In : Homicide Studies. 29, 1, p. 66-82
17 p.
“We’re Not Miracle Workers”: An Examination of the Relationship Between Community Violence Intervention Workers and Their Participants
Bocanegra, K. & Aguilar, N., Jul 1 2024,
In : Families in Society. 105, 3, p. 374-383
10 p.
Deaths of Despair in Black and White: Gun Violence, Political Economy, and the Case for Macro Intervention
Aspholm, R. R., Aguilar, N. & Vil, C. S., Mar 1 2024,
In : Advances in Social Work. 24, 1, p. 1-26
26 p.
Digital mourning in tweets: Multimodal analysis of image-based grieving practices among gang-affiliated Black youth
Aguilar, N., Landau, A. Y., Taylor, K. A., Kleiner, S. & Patton, D. U., 2024,
In : New Media and Society..
Applying Reflexivity to Artificial Intelligence for Researching Marginalized Communities and Real-World Problems
Aguilar, N., Landau, A. Y., Mathiyazhagan, S., Auyeung, A., Dillard, S. & Patton, D. U., 2023,
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2023.
Bui, Tung X. (ed.).IEEE Computer Society, p. 712-721
10 p.
Community implications for gun violence prevention during co-occurring pandemics; a qualitative and computational analysis study
Patton, D. U., Aguilar, N., Landau, A. Y., Thomas, C., Kagan, R., Ren, T., Stoneberg, E., Wang, T., Halmos, D., Saha, A., Ananthram, A. & McKeown, K., Dec 2022,
In : Preventive Medicine. 165, 107263.
Exploring emergent barriers to hospital-based violence intervention programming during the COVID-19 pandemic
Wical, W., Harfouche, M., Lovelady, N., Aguilar, N., Ross, D. & Richardson, J. B., Dec 2022,
In : Preventive Medicine. 165, 107232.
Breaking the Cycle: Women’s Perceptions of the Causes of Violence and Crime in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, and Their Strategies for Response and Prevention
Winter, S. C., Obara, L. M., Aguilar, N. J. & Johnson, L., Oct 2022,
In : Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37, 19-20, p. NP17394-NP17428
“Next, it will be you”: Women’s Fear of Victimization and Precautionary Safety Behaviors in Informal Settlement Communities in Nairobi, Kenya
Winter, S. C., Aguilar, N. J., Obara, L. M. & Johnson, L., Oct 2022,
In : Violence Against Women. 28, 12-13, p. 2966-2991
26 p.
Kids & their crews
Aguilar, N. & Patton, D. U., Jan 1 2022,
Not Just Bad Kids: The Adversity and Disruptive Behavior Link.
Elsevier, p. 387-406
20 p.
Social Media Representations of Law Enforcement within Four Diverse Chicago Neighborhoods
Sodhi, A., Aguilar, N., Choma, D. E., Steve, J. M., Patton, D. & Crandall, M., Dec 1 2020,
In : Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 49, 6, p. 832-852
21 p.
Peer support on the “inside and outside”: building lives and reducing recidivism for people with mental illness returning from jail
Bellamy, C., Kimmel, J., Costa, M. N., Tsai, J., Nulton, L., Nulton, E., Kimmel, A., Aguilar, N. J., Clayton, A. & O’Connell, M., Sep 13 2019,
In : Journal of Public Mental Health. 18, 3, p. 188-198
11 p.