EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. Social Psychology          CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK GRADUATE CENTER ,1982

                                                Dissertation: "Values and Attitudes of Political Resisters to Authority"
                                                Chairman: Dr. Stanley Milgram

 

M.A., Psychology                      SAN FRANCISCO STATE COLLEGE, 1971
                                        

B.A., Psychology                       UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, 1966

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

March 1999 – present           Lecturer

       California State University, Hayward

                    Introductory Psychology
                    Critical Thinking
                    Psychology of Women
                    Social Psychology
                    Research Methods
                    Groups and Organizations
                    Social/Personality Lab
                    Individual Differences
                    Personal Growth
                    Developmental Psychology
                    Developmental Lab

                                                               
June 1999 – Fall 2000      Lecturer

       Diablo Valley College

            Personality
            Introductory Psychology
            Psychology of Women

August 1987 - December 1993   Lecturer

       California State University, Northridge and Fullerton

                   Introductory Psychology
                   Social Psychology (Lecture and Lab/Seminar)
                   Developmental Psychology (Lecture and Lab/Seminar)
                   Dynamics of Individual Behavior (Lecture and Lab/Seminar)
                   Psychology of Women and Men
                   Introduction to Women's Studies
                   Introduction to Personality
                   Motivation
                   Abnormal Psychology
                   Directed Research
      

Spring, 1992   Lecturer

       Los Angeles City College
       Special Education Program (PacBell Adult Education) Introductory Psychology


February - June 1991  Lecturer

       Glendale Community College

                    Introductory Psychology

September - December, 1989   Adjunct Associate Professor

        California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles
 
                   Sex Roles

Summer 1988    Lecturer

       Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, Menlo Park, California

                   Social Psychology

August 1984 - May 1987    (Temporary) Assistant Professor

       Iowa State University, Ames  Iowa

                   Social Psychology
                   Psychology of Women
                   Environmental Psychology
                   Developmental Psychology
                   Normal Personality
                   Graduate Seminar on Obedience and Resistance to Authority
                   Graduate Seminar on Moral Judgment
                   Graduate Seminar on Critiques of Biological Theories of
                        Gender-related Behavior
                   Directed Research
                   Directed Reading                           
 

Summer 1985, Spring 1986    Adjunct Professor

       Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

                   Theories of Personality
                   Psychology of Women

August 1983 - May 1984    Visiting (Assistant) Professor

       The College of WoosterWooster, Ohio

                   Introductory Psychology
                   Psychology of Women
                   Advanced Social Psychology
                   Marxism:  Theory and Critique (team teacher)
 

September 1982 - June 1983    Visiting (Assistant) Professor

       Weber State College, Ogden, Utah

                   Introductory Psychology
                   Psychology of Women
                   Social Psychology
                   Senior Seminar on the Individual and Authority
                   Directed Research

Summer, 1982    Instructor

       College of San MateoSan Mateo, California

                   Introductory Psychology


Summer, 1982   Instructor

       John F. Kennedy University (Upper division & graduate)Orinda, California

                   Theories of Personality

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

 

Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology of Women, Critical Thinking, Psychology of Gender, Developmental, Personality, Personality Development, Individual Differences, the Individual and Authority, Moral Judgment, Environmental Psychology, Research Methods (especially field and survey), Political Behavior, Social Influence, Women's Studies, Sex Roles, Forensic Psychology                                                

 

Journal Articles

Presley, S., Weaver, J. & Weaver, B. (1985/1986).  Traditional and nontraditional Mormon women:  socialization and political attitudes.     Women and Politics.  5(4), 51-77.

            Presley, S. (1985).  Moral judgments and attitudes toward authority of political resisters.  Journal of Research in Personality19
       135‑151.

 

Conference Papers

Presley, S., Wagner, L., Hanken, A.& Vagner, I. Images of women in music  videos.  Paper presented at Western Psychological
     Association, 1991 convention.

Presley, S. & Zur, O.  The New York vigilante dilemma: gender comparisons in moral reasoning. American Psychological Association,
     1989 Convention.

            Presley, S.  Politically active and nonactive women: attitudes toward women and authority.  Western Psychological Association, 1987
     Convention.

Presley, S. (1986).  Personality and social behavior.  Chair of panel at Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.

Presley, S. (1986).  Mormon feminists and traditional Mormon women: differences in socialization.  Eastern Psychological Association,
     `New York.                    

Presley, S. (1985).  Attitudes of Mormon women toward authority and social equality for women.  Western Psychological Association
     Convention, San Jose, California.

Presley, S. (1984).  Moral judgment and attitudes toward authority in political resisters.  Midwest Political Science Association
     Convention, Chicago.

Presley, S. (1983).  Mormon women: views on marriage and the family. Ninth Annual GLCA Women's Studies Conference, Rochester,
     Indiana
.

Presley, S. (1983).  Content bias in the defining issues test: a critique.  Western Psychological   Association Convention, San
     Francisco
.

Presley, S. (1982).  Values and attitudes of political resisters to authority.  American Psychological Association Convention,
     Washington
, D.C.

Presley, S. (1981).  Women resisters to authority.  Association for Women in Psychology Conference,  Boston.

Presley, S. (1981).  Resistance to authority: a psychological perspective.  Center for Libertarian Studies,  New York City.

Presley, S. (1980).  Obedience and resistance to authority.  Seminar on Perceived Psychological Freedom, Institute for Humane
     Studies, Toronto.

Presley, S. (1979).  Psychology of rights.  Center for Libertarian Studies, New York City.         


Research Grants, Awards and Fellowships

   "Survey of Women Political Activists"

      Research grants, 1985‑1987

      Graduate College

      Iowa State University


    Ludwig von Mises Fellowship in the Social Sciences

      Summer writing grant, 1983

      Center for Libertarian Studies

      New York City

 

    "Socialization of Mormon Feminists"

      Research grant, 1982

      Research and Professional Growth Committee

      Weber State College

 

    Hayek Fund Fellowship

      Travel grant to International Society of Political Psychology Conference, 1982

      Institute for Humane Studies

      Menlo Park, California

 

    "Early 20th Century Libertarian Women"

       Research grant, 1978

       Center for Libertarian Studies

      New York City

 

Related Historical Books and Papers about Resistance to Authority


Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre co-edited with Crispin Sartwell, with commentaries, State University of New York
     Press, 2005. Choice (American Library Assocation) Award, 2005. Outstanding Academic Title.

“American Women Resisters to Authority,” Paper presented at the Smith Institute, California State University, East Bay, April, 2005.

"John Henry Mackay: the Anarchist", new preface to the Special Centenary Edition of The Anarchists: a Picture of Civilization at the
     Close of the Nineteenth Century,
  New York:     Autonomedia, 2000.

“No Authority But Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of Autonomy and Freedom,”  Social Anarchism, No. 27, 1999

“Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Individualism: A Feminist Psychologist’s Perspective” in C. Sciabarra (ed.) Feminist Interpretations of Ayn
     Rand,
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999

"Feminism in Liberty: the 'Woman Question' in the Pages of Liberty, 1881‑1908," in Benjamin R. Tucker and the Champions of Liberty:
     A Centenary Anthology,
Coughlin Publishers, 1987.

"Individualist Anarchist Feminists: American Women (and Men) Resisters to Authority".  Presented at National Women's History
     Week, Iowa State University, March, 1985.

"The New Freewomen: Suzanne LaFollette," Libertarian Review, January, 1981.

"Suzanne LaFollette," paper presented at the Center for Libertarian Studies, 1980.

"Voltairine deCleyre," Libertarian Review, March, 1979.

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

 

       Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

       Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology

 

COMMITTEES AND OTHER SERVICE

       Chair, Educational Equity Committee, American Association of

                   University Women, Cerritos-Las Palmas Chapter, 1994-95

       Co-Chair, Publicity Committee, Association for Women in Psychology

                    National Convention 1992 Planning Committee

                    Member, Spring semester, 1985 ‑ Women's Studies Program Committee,

                   Iowa State University.

                   Member, Committee on Sexual Harassment and Inequitable Treatment, Psychology Department,

                               Iowa State University.

                   Alternate, Spring semester, 1985 ‑ University Committee on Women, Iowa State University.

                   Advisory Council, Center for the Study of Psychiatry; Bethesda, Maryland

 

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

 

   Faculty Workshop: Using Blackboard in Teaching

                   California State University, Hayward

                    September, 2002

 

   Faculty Seminar: Using Computers in Teaching

                   California State University, Hayward

                   July, 2000

 

   Faculty Seminar: Writing Across the Disciplines

                   California State University, Northridge

                   August, 1990

 

   Faculty Workshops: Teaching Values; Cross-cultural Diversity

                   California State University

                   June, 1990

 

REFERENCES

 

 Professor Stanley Milgram (letter on file)

                   City University of New York

                   Graduate Center

  

 Professor Wilbur Layton

                   Former Chairman, Psychology Department

                   Iowa State University

                   Ames, Iowa


 Professor Richard McFarland

                   Former Chair, Department of Psychology

                   California State University

                   Fullerton, California

 

Professor Robert Morgan

                   American School of Professional Psychology

                   Formerly of Pacific Graduate School

 

Dr. Allana Elovson

                   Formerly of California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles

 

Professor Eleanor Levine

                   Former Chair, Department of Psychology

                   California State University

                   Hayward, California

 

Dr. Alan Monat, Associate Dean of School of Science

                   Former Chair, Department of Psychology

                   California State University, East Bay

                   Hayward, California




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