Rhoda Unger

Areas of Expertise

Psychology of Women and Gender; History of Psychology; Sociology of Knowledge

Email: unger@brandeis.edu

Current Project

I am examining leaders’ sex, religion, and social class as well as generational and contextual factors to determine their potential impact on the commitment to use psychological knowledge for positive social change.  This project looks at the elected leadership of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues since its inception in 1936. 

Biography

Rhoda Unger is a professor emerita of psychology at Montclair State University. She has written/edited nine books on the psychology of women and gender and more than 65 articles and book chapters in this field.  She has also published several recent articles in political psychology. Unger has received many awards for her work including the first Carolyn Sherif memorial lectureship from the Society for the Psychology of Women and distinguished career awards from the Committee on the Psychology of Women and the Association for Women in Psychology. In 2007 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Foundation.

Unger has been president of the Society for the Psychology of Women and, more recently, president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (divisions of APA).  From 2000 - 2006 she was the inaugural editor of the electronic and print journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP).

She has been a Fulbright senior scholar at the University of Haifa in Israel, a visiting fellow for the British Psychological Society, and a noted scholar at the University of British Columbia. In summer, 2004 she was a visiting professor at the Gender Studies Institute of Ochanomizu University in Tokyo.

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University

M.A., Radcliffe College

B.S., Brooklyn College

Representative Publications

Unger, R. K.  Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender.  New York: Wiley, 2001.

Unger, R. K.  Resisting Gender: Twenty-five Years of Feminist Psychology.  London: Sage Publications, 1998.

Links

Curriculum Vitae

Society for the Psychological Study of Social issues

Journal: Analysis of Social issues and Social Policy

Handbook of Psychology of Women and Gender