Carol A. Plummer, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., received her Masters in Social Work from Western Michigan University, her Masters in Psychology from University of Michigan, and her PhD in Social Work and Personality Psychology from the University of Michigan. 

She is the author of Preventing Sexual Abuse, a prevention curriculum first published in 1984 and revised in 1997.  She has conducted several studies on child sexual abuse prevention programs and on program effectiveness.  Most recently, her research and writing has focused on the coping of nonabusive mothers of sexually abused children. 

Plummer is also involved in new programs and research related to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In one study she is examining coping of social work students in the aftermath of the hurricane, including management of their own stress and reactions. 

Her interests have expanded to international social work since a trip to Kenya in 2006 and in 2007 she took US students (LSU) to India for a Study Abroad program. She followed this up with a consultation and training trip for one month in 2010. In 2010 she also hosted students for a cross-cultural social work course in Hawaii. After five years on faculty at the Louisiana State University School of Social Work, she is now an Associate Professor at Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.  Her position, in affiliation with the Consuelo Foundation, focuses on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect.