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Nancy Felipe Russo

Nancy Felipe Russo

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Professor Russo has research interests in gender roles and mental health, reproductive issues, factors influencing women's educational and career achievements (particularly in science and engineering fields), ethnic minority women's issues, and population and environmental psychology.

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Gender Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Law and Public Policy
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity

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Journal Articles:

  • Kite, M. E., Russo, N. F., Brehm, S. S., et al. (2001). Women psychologists in academe: Mixed progress, unwarranted complacency. American Psychologist, 56, 1080-1098.
  • Ramos Lira, L., Koss, M. P., & Russo, N. F. (1999). Mexican-American women 's definitions of rape and sexual abuse. [Special Issue on Latinas]. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 21(3), 236-265.
  • 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.
  • Russo, N. F., & Pirlott, A. (2006). Gender-based violence: Concepts, methods, and findings. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1087, 178-205.
  • Russo, N. F., & Vaz, K. (2001). Addressing diversity in the Decade of Behavior: Focus on women of color. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 25, 280-294.
  • Schmiege, S., & Russo, N. F. (2005). Depression and unwanted first pregnancy: Longitudinal cohort study. British Medical Journal, 331, 1303-1308.

Other Publications:

  • Denious, J., & Russo, N. F. (2000). The socio-political context of abortion and its relationship to women mental health. In J. Ussher (Ed.), Women Health: Contemporary International Perspectives (pp. 431-439). London: British Psychological Society.
  • Hamilton, J. A., & Russo, N. F. (2006). Women and depression: Research, theory, and social policy. In C. L. M. Keyes & S. H. Goodman (Eds). Women and Depression: A Handbook for the Social, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 479-522). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 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.
  • Russo, N. F., & Tartaro, J. (2008). Women and mental health. In F. L. Denmark & M. A. Paludi (Eds.), Psychology of women: A handbook of issues and theories – 2nd Edition (pp. 440-481). Westport: Greenwood Press.
  • Steinberg, J. R., True, M., & Russo, N. F. (2008). Work and family: Selected issues. In F. L. Denmark & M. A. Paludi. (Eds.), Psychology of women: A handbook of issues and theories – 2nd Edition (pp. 652-700). Westport: Greenwood 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).

Courses Taught:

  • Cender and Health
  • Gender and Culture
  • Gender and Health
  • Introductory Psychology
  • Psychology of Gender
  • Psychology of Women
  • Social Psychology
  • Women's Health

Nancy Felipe Russo
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Box 871104
Tempe, Arizona 85287-1104
United States of America

  • Phone: (480) 965-0380
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