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James M. O’Neil, Ph.D. is Professor of Family Studies and Educational
Psychology at the University of Connecticut and a licensed psychologist in
private practice in South Windsor, Connecticut. In 1975, he received his
doctorate from the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the
University of Maryland. He is a fellow of the American Psychological
Association in Divisions 17, 35, 43, 51, 52. He is one of the founding members
of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM),
Division 51 of the American Psychological Association. SPSMM named him
Researcher of the Year in 1997 for his 20-year research program on men’s
gender role conflict. His research programs relate to men and masculinity,
gender role conflict, psychology of men and women, forgiveness, violence, and
victimization. He is the author of the Gender Role Conflict Scale, a
widely used measure of men’s conflict with their gender roles. His most recent
book (with Michele Harway) is What Causes Men’s Violence Against Women?
(Sage, 1999). In 1991, he was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship by the
Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to lecture in the former
Soviet Union. He lectured at Moscow State Pedagogical University from February
through April, 1992, on such topics as psychological counseling, psychology of
gender roles, and victimization. In 1995, he was awarded Teaching Fellow
status by the University of Connecticut for his outstanding excellence and
dedication to the university teaching profession.
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