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Presentation Location & Time: This presentation is open to the public; admission is free. Location: Heth 014 ~ Time: 4:00 5:00 p.m. ~ Thursday, April 24th, 2014 Radford University, Radford, VA. |
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Dr. Travis' research has focused on gender and race in the treatment of heart disease. Her research draws on national hospital patient discharge records and encompasses over a decade of information. Today her presentation will focus on The women’s health movement & health disparities, with particular attention to heart bypass surgery. |
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Background Dr. Cheryl Travis is a full professor and associate department head of psychology and, separately, is Chair of the Women’s Studies Program for the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus. She is a recipient of the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women. She has served as president of the Society for the Psychology of Women, Chair of the American Psychological Association Board of Scientific Affairs, and more recently, as a member of the APA Board of Educational Affairs. She is the author / editor of books on Women’s Health Psychology, on Feminism, Sexuality and Society, and on Evolution, Gender, and Rape. She also has published papers on equity and the Gender Pay Gap. She has received the Chancellor’s Angie Warren Perkins award for Excellence and is actively involved in the University Commission for Women. In her spare time, she and her husband are avid hikers. Her recent projects have included quantitative modeling of heart bypass decisions with a focus on gender and race, analysis of beauty myths and their psychological impact, national health care needs of women, content analyses of wedding manuals, and a long term qualitative interview study with adult survivors of childhood abuse. A recent book focused on feminism and the social construction sexuality while another book focused on critiques of evolutionary models of rape. Feminist theory provides a general basis for approaching a variety of topics, and research methodologies may be quantitative or qualitative. |
Education Dr. Cheryl Travis Ph.D. University of California, Davis (1971) Honors Fellow APA Division 9 Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Fellow APA Division 34 Population and Environmental Psychology Fellow APA Division 35 Psychology of Women Fellow APA Division 38 Health Psychology APA Committee on Women Career Achievement Award Associate Editor, American Psychologist Editor Psychology of Women Book Series President, APA Division 35 Psychology of Women Chair APA Board of Scientific Affairs Contact Information Dr. Cheryl Travis Dept: Psychology Austin Peay Building University of Tennessee at Knoxville Knoxville, TN 37996 Web: Dr. Cheryl Travis Email: ctravis@utk.edu Tel: 865-974-6843 |
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