Division 35 President

President Stephanie A. Shields, PhD is Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) where she coordinates the dual-title PhD in Women’s Studies and Psychology. She served as Director of Women’s Studies at Penn State and the University of California, Davis. She was founding director of the UC Davis Consortium for Research on Women and Gender. Dr. Shields’ research is at the intersection of emotion, gender, and feminist psychology. Her work focuses on the micropolitics of emotion, the use of one’s own or others’ emotions to assert or challenge status and power. She is a two-time winner of the Association for Women in Psychology’s Distinguished Publication Award—first for Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion (Cambridge, 2002) and then for a special issue of Sex Roles on intersectionality of social identities (September 2008). She has also developed WAGES, an experiential learning demonstration of the nature and cumulative effects of apparently minor biases in the academic workplace. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Dr. Shields is pleased to make connections between her research work and the practical concerns of people's everyday lives. Her research has recently been featured in Slate, Elle (Canada), Toronto Globe & Mail, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and La Tercera (Chile), to name a few.

Contact Dr. Shields

Stephanie A. Shields, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies
Department of Psychology
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: (814) 863-1729

Pam Remer, PhD
Director of Clinical Training, Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program
Associate Professor
University of Kentucky
237 Dickey Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0017
Telephone: (859) 271-4524
Fax: (859) 257-5662

Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Culture and Trauma Research Lab at Pepperdine University.  Dr. Bryant-Davis is a former APA representative to the United Nations and she has served on both the Committee on International Relations in Psychology and the Committee on Women in Psychology.  She is author of the book Thriving in the wake of trauma: A multicultural guide which won an Academic Book Choice Award.  Dr. Bryant-Davis was also awarded the Emerging Leader of Women in Psychology Award.  She is a widely sought after speaker and trainer on the topics of trauma, culture, and women's mental health.  Her Presidential Task Forces  focus is on feminist perspectives on human trafficking, popular culture, spirituality/religion, and international themes of women's psychology.  Additionally, she is spearheading the launch of the Feminist Psychology Institute which will be the premiere on-line resource for continuing education credits about feminist psychology.

Read Dr. Bryant-Davis' latest president's message in The Feminist Psychologist.

Contact Dr. Bryant-Davis

Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD 
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director, Culture and Trauma Research Lab
Pepperdine University
16830 Ventura Blvd., Suite 200
Encino, CA 91436
Telephone: (818) 501-1632
Fax: (818) 501-1631