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Nancy Felipe Russo, PhD, 1970, Cornell University

Social

Research Interests: Social development, sex roles and mental health, factors influencing women's educational and career achievements, ethnic minority women's issues, and population and environmental psychology.

Teaching: Women’s Health; Gender and Health; Psychology of Women; Psychology of Gender; Introductory Psychology; Social Psychology

Research projects
The relationship of feminist identity and religion to attitudes towards abortion, women, and other social issues

The effects of interacting social identities on self concept, self-esteem, values, interpersonal judgments, relationships, attitudes towards women, and mental health with a particular focus on gender, ethnic, religious, and feminist identities of women and men

Objectification and its relationship to body shame and mental health over the life cycle

The relationship of unwanted pregnancy and abortion to mental health, particularly depression

The relationship of childhood sexual abuse and partner violence to unwanted pregnancy.

Selected Publications:

Kite, M. E., Russo, N. F., Brehm, S. S., et al. (2001). Women Psychologists in Academe: Mixed Progress, Unwarranted Complacency. American Psychologist, in press.

White, J., Russo, N. F., & Travis, C. B. (Eds.) (2001). Feminism and the Decade of Behavior. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell Publishers (Special issue, PWQ).

Russo, N. F. & Denious, J. E. (2001). Violence in the Lives of Women Having Abortions: Implications for Public Policy and Practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 32, 142-150.

Denious, J. & Russo, N. F. (2000). The Socio-Political Context of Abortion and its Relationship to Women’s Mental Health. In J. Ussher (Ed.). Women’s Health: Contemporary International Perspectives (pp. 431-439). London: British Psychological Society.

Russo, N. F., Koss, M. P., & Ramos, L. (2000). Rape: A Global Health Issue. In J. Ussher (Ed.). Women’s Health: Contemporary International Perspectives (pp. 129-142). London: British Psychological Society.

Ramos Lira, L., Koss, M. P. & Russo, N. F. (1999). Mexican-American Women 's Definitions of Rape and Sexual Abuse. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 21(3), 236-265. [Special issue on Latinas].

Bourne, L. E. B., Jr., & N. F. Russo (1998). Psychology: Behavior in Context. NY: W. W. Norton.

Russo, N. F., Denious, J., Keita, G. P., & Koss, M. P. (1997). Intimate violence and black women's health Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Public Policy, 3(3&4), 315-348.