Dr. Sherry Hamby
The Psychology Colloquium Series presents Dr. Sherry Hamby on “When You Put It That Way: Why Measurement Matters in Research on Violence and Resilience” on Friday, Oct. 25, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102.
According to her website, Hamby is Director of the Life Paths Research Center (LPRC) and Founder of ResilienceCon. She is also Research Professor of Psychology at the University of the South. A licensed clinical psychologist, Hamby has worked for more than 20 years on the problem of violence, including front-line crisis intervention and treatment, involvement in grassroots organizations, and research leading to the publication of more than 200 articles and books. She is best known for her work on poly-victimization, measuring violence, and resilience. Her awards include the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association. She and her colleagues conducted the first nationally representative study of poly-victimization, the first reservation-based study of domestic violence, and largest psychological study ever conducted in rural Appalachia. Her safety plan for victims of domestic violence, the VIGOR, has been endorsed by numerous national, state, and local agencies. She was founding editor (2010-2018) of the APA journal Psychology of Violence (Q1 in Family Studies and Criminology).
Her research has been funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Digital Trust Foundation, and numerous other agencies. Hamby is the author of Battered Women’s Protective Strategies: Stronger Than You Know (Oxford, 2014) and The Web of Violence (with John Grych; Springer, 2013), both of which have been influential works in the field. She has served on several national research advisory boards, including the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC. She completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, CBS News, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Time, Forbes, Slate, The Guardian, CTV News, Wisconsin Public Radio, and hundreds of other media outlets.
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