Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill

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Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill is an American academic. She is a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University (BYU). From 1994-2010, she was the director of the .

Early life and education[]

The daughter of Ariel S. Ballif and Artemesia Romney,[1] Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah[citation needed] and has a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. both from BYU.[citation needed]

Career[]

From 1966-1968, she was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii.[citation needed] From 1968-1993 she was on the faculty of Fordham University.[citation needed] While there she was chair of the Division of Psychology and Educational Services.[citation needed] In 1994 she joined the BYU faculty as a professor of psychology and head of the Women's Research Institute.[citation needed]

Ballif-Spanvill is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association.[citation needed] Ballif-Spanvill's most cited work is "Preventing violence and teaching peace: A review of promising and effective antiviolence, conflict-resolution, and peace programs for elementary school children" which was co-authored with and . She was also an author of the article "Terrorist as Group Violence" in the Journal of Threat Assessment in 2003; "The Security of Women and the Security of States" with Valerie M. Hudson, , Rose McDermott and published in International Security Vol. 33 issue 3 (Winter 2009).[2] She has written multiple articles for the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and coedited with Marilyn Arnold and Kristen Tracey A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by women published by the University of Iowa Press in 2002.

Personal life[]

Ballif-Spanvill is married to Robert J. Spanvill.[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/349127/DEATH--ARIEL-S-BALLIF-JR.html?pg=all
  2. ^ link to Article from Harvard

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