автор: Michele A. Paludi

Florence L. Denmark, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar, researcher and policy maker. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in social psychology and has 6 honorary degrees. Denmark is the Robert Scott Pace Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Pace University in New York. A past president of the American Psychological Association (APA), Eastern Psychological Association (EPA), Psi Chi and the International Council of Psychologists (ICP), Denmark holds fellowship status in the APA (including SPW), EPA, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science and the International Association of Applied Psychology. She received the 2004 American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement for Psychology in the Public Interest.   In 2005, she received the Ernest R. Hilgard Award for her Career Contribution to General Psychology.  She is the recipient of the 2007 Raymond Fowler Award for Outstanding Service to APA and the 2009 Elder Award presented at the APA National Multicultural Conference. In 2011, Denmark received the Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology. Denmark’s most significant research and extensive publications have emphasized women’s leadership and leadership styles, the interaction of status and gender, ageing women in cross-cultural perspective, and the history of women in psychology.  Denmark is currently the main NGO representative to the United Nations for the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) as well as representing the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP). She is the co-chair of the UN NGO Committees on Family, and is on the Executive Committee of the Committee on Ageing.  Michele A. Paludi, Ph.D., is the the author/editor of 54 college textbooks, and more than 200 scholarly articles and conference presentations on sexual harassment, campus violence,  psychology of women, gender, and discrimination. Her book,  Ivory Power: Sexual Harassment on Campus, (1990, SUNY Press),  received the 1992 Myers Center Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States. Dr. Paludi served as Chair of the U.S. Department of Education’s Subpanel on the Prevention of Violence,  Sexual Harassment, and Alcohol and Other Drug Problems in Higher Education. She was one of six scholars in the United States to be selected for this subpanel. She also was a consultant to and a member of former New York State Governor Mario Cuomo’s Task Force on Sexual Harassment. Dr. Paludi serves as an expert witness for court proceedings and administrative hearings on sexual harassment. She has had extensive experience in conducting training programs and investigations of sexual harassment and other Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) issues for businesses and educational institutions. In addition, Dr. Paludi has held faculty positions at Franklin & Marshall College, Kent State University,  Hunter College, Union College, and Union Graduate College, where she directs the human resource management certificate program. She is on the faculty in the School of Management at Union Graduate College.  She is also the Program Director for Psychology at Excelsior College.