Shelly Grabe

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Dr. Shelly Grabe (born 1974) is an Associate Professor in Social Psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she has affiliations with Feminist Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies. Dr. Grabe is a scholar-activist whose research involves demonstrating how psychology can provide the currently missing, but necessary, links between the discourse on women's human rights and globalization and the international attention given to women's empowerment.

Biography[]

As a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2004, Shelly was awarded a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award to conduct research on women's body objectification. She designed a programmatic investigation of body objectification using diverse but complementary methodologies (e.g., quantitative survey, experimental designs, meta-analysis) to demonstrate that the objectification of women's bodies is deeply embedded in socio-cultural world views and intersects with race/ethnicity. She was mentored in feminist psychology by Dr. Janet Hyde.

At the same time, Shelly became a community organizer, directing a CODEPINK chapter in Madison, WI and was an active member of the then Wisconsin Coordinating Council on Nicaragua. Through solidarity relationships with the women's social movement in Nicaragua (Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres), Grabe became learned in women of Color and “Third World” feminisms from a grassroots, decolonial perspective. She used this perspective to push a new area of inquiry into the investigation of social inequities or male dominance in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary context. To do so, she coupled her interests in structural inequities, gender, and globalization with her research training to work with transnational women's organizations. Together they pushed new areas of inquiry that had the potential to support positive social change for women. During her postdoctoral years she was awarded a Visiting Scholar position in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received funding from the National Science Foundation to begin an investigation in Nicaragua. This work was supported by mentor, colleague, and friend, Carlos Arenas.

Professor Grabe joined the Psychology faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2008. Her primary appointment is in Social Psychology, though she is affiliated with the Feminist Studies and Latin American and Latin@ Studies departments. She is also an affiliate of the University of California Global Health Initiative Center of Expertise. In addition to the strong support received from her colleagues in the Psychology department, Grabe's interests in women's human rights in a transnational context were mentored by Dr. Rosa-Linda Fregoso.

Education and jobs[]

Grabe received her B.A. in Psychology from Michigan State University and did her graduate studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology in 2004. She was trained in clinical psychology with a minor in quantitative statistical methods. She completed a clinical residency at the University of Washington, School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 2004. She received an NIH post-doc award in the Psychology department at the University of Wisconsin during 2004 and 2006 and held a Visiting Scholar position in the Women's Studies department at the University of Wisconsin Madison between 2006 and 2008. She joined the faculty at UCSC in 2008.

Accomplishments[]

Grabe has been a University of California DC Fellow, received a campus Excellence in Teaching Award, was awarded the Georgia Babladelis Best Paper Award from the Psychology of Women Quarterly, and has been a recipient of the Denmark-Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender. Her research at UCSC has been funded by NSF, the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, the UC Global Health Initiative, the Chicano/Latino Research Cluster at UCSC, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and the REED Foundation.

Since her appointment at UCSC, Grabe has gained increasing international attention. In 2014 she was invited to deliver a talk at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on gendered structural inequities and social justice. In 2015 she was invited to deliver a keynote address at the American Psychological Association convention in Toronto titled, “Gender (in)justice in a transnational, globalized context: What’s psychology have to do with it?” Of the six invited “experts” on transnational feminism, Grabe was the only psychologist. She has also published widely in peer-reviewed outlets such as Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Feminism & Psychology, the Journal of Community Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and Violence Against Women. She has a forthcoming book in press by Oxford University Press titled, " Narrating a Psychology of Resistance: Voices of the Compañeras in Nicaragua" which offers a critical perspective on how the intersections of patriarchy and neoliberalism threaten women's human rights and democratic participation in society.

References[]


Sources
  • Grabe, S. (2015). Participation: Structural and relational power and Maasai women's political subjectivity in Tanzania. Feminism & Psychology, 25, 528-548.
  • Grabe, S., & Dutt, A. (2015). Counter narratives, the psychology of liberation, and the evolution of a women's social movement in Nicaragua. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. 21(1), 89-105.
  • Grabe, S., & Grose, R., & Dutt, A. (2015). Women's land ownership and relationship power: A mixed methods approach to understanding structural inequities and violence against women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 39, 7-19.
  • Dutt, A., & Grabe, S. (2014). Lifetime activism, marginality, and psychology: Narratives of lifelong feminist activists committed to social change. Qualitative Psychology, 2, 107-122.
  • Grose, R. & Grabe, S. (2014). The explanatory role of relationship power and control in domestic violence against women in Nicaragua: A feminist psychology analysis. Violence Against Women, 20, 972-993.
  • Grabe, S., Dutt, A., & Dworkin, S. (2014). Women's community mobilization and well-being: Local resistance gendered social inequities in Nicaragua and Tanzania. Journal of Community Psychology, 42, 379-397.
  • Grabe, S. (2014). Invited chapter. Rural feminism and revolution in Nicaragua. Voices of the compañeras. In J. Shayne (Ed.). Taking Risks: Feminist Stories of Social Justice Research in the Americas (pp. 279–308). SUNY Press.
  • Grose, R. & Grabe, S. (2014). Sociocultural attitudes surrounding menstruation and alternative menstrual products: The explanatory role of self-objectification. Health Care for Women International, 35, 677-694.
  • Grose, R. & Grabe, S., Kohfeldt, D. (2013). Sexual education, gender ideology, and youth sexual empowerment. Journal of Sex Research, 51, 742-753.
  • Grabe, S. (2013). Invited chapter: Psychological cliterodectomy: Body objectification as a human rights violation. In M. K. Ryan & N. R. Branscombe (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Gender and Psychology. Sage.
  • Dworkin, S., Grabe, S., Lu, T., Hatcher, A., Kwena, Z., Bukusi, E., Mwaura-Muiru, E. (2012). Property rights violations in Nyanza and Western Provinces, Kenya: A qualitative examination of this critical structural driver of women's HIV risks. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 10.1007/s10508-012-0024-6.
  • Grabe, S. & Else-Quest, N. M. (2012). The role of transnational feminism in psychology: Complementary visions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36, 158-161.
  • Else-Quest, N. M. & Grabe, S. (2012). The political is personal: Measurement and application of national-level indicators of gender equity in psychological research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36, 131-144.
  • Grabe, S. (2012). An empirical examination of women's empowerment and transformative change in the context of international development. American Journal of Community Psychology, 49, 233-245.
  • Grabe, S. (2010). Promoting gender equality: The role of ideology, power, and control in the link between land ownership and violence in Nicaragua. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 10,146-170.
  • Grabe, S. (2010). Invited chapter: Women's human rights and empowerment in a transnational, globalized context: What's Psychology got to do with it? In M. A. Paludi (Ed.), Feminism and Women's Rights Worldwide. (pp. 17–46). Westport, CT. Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group.
  • Grabe, S. & Hyde, J. (2009). Body objectification, MTV, and psychological outcomes among female adolescents. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 39, 2840-2858.
  • Grabe, S. & Arenas, C. (2009). Promoting gender equality through development: Land ownership and domestic violence in Nicaragua. Gendered Perspectives on International Development. Working Paper #295. East Lansing, MI: Gender, Development, and Globalization Program, Michigan State University.
  • Grabe, S. & Jackson, B. (2009). Self-objectification and depressive symptoms: Does their association vary among Asian American and White American men and women? Body Image: An International Journal, 6, 141-144.
  • Gentile, B., Grabe, S., Dolan-Pascoe, B., Twenge, J. M., Wells, B. E., & Maitino, A. (2009). Gender differences in domain-specific self-esteem: A meta-analysis. Review of General Psychology, 13, 34-45.
  • Grabe, S., Ward, L.M., & Hyde, J. S. (2008). The role of the media in body image concern among women: A meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. Psychological Bulletin, 134, 460-476.
  • Hyde, J. & Grabe, S. (2008). Invited chapter: Meta-analysis in the psychology of women. In F. L. Denmark & M. A. Paludi (Eds.), Psychology of women: A handbook of issues and theories (pp. 142–173). Westport, CT. Praeger Publishers/Greenwood Publishing Group. PDF
  • Lindberg, S., Grabe, S., & Hyde, J. (2007). Gender, pubertal development, and peer sexual harassment predict objectified body consciousness in early adolescence. Journal for Research on Adolescence, 17, 723-742.
  • Grabe, S., Hyde, J., & Lindberg, S. (2007). Body objectification and depression in adolescents: The role of gender, shame, and rumination. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 31, 164-175.
  • Grabe, S. & Hyde, J. S. (2006). Ethnicity and body dissatisfaction among women in the United States: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 622-640.
  • Grabe, S. & Hyde, J. (2006). Invited chapter. Impact of gender on leadership. In M. F.Karsten (Ed.), Gender, race, ethnicity in the workplace: Issues and challenges for today's organizations (pp. 183–198). New York: Greenwood.
  • Grabe, S., Routledge, C., Cook, A., Andersen, C., & Arndt, J. (2005). In defense of the body: The effect of mortality salience on female body objectification. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 29, 33-37.

Publications translated in Spanish

  • Grabe, S. (2011). Un examen empírico del empoderamiento y cambrio transformador de la mujer en el contexto del desarrollo internacional. American Journal of Community Psychology
  • Grabe, S. (2010). La promoción de la igualdad de género: El papel de la ideología, el poder y el control en la relación entre la propiedad de tierras y la violencia en Nicaragua. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 10,146-170.
  • Grabe, S. & Arenas, C. (2009). Promoviendo la igualdad de género por medio del desarrollo: Propiedad de la tierra y violencia doméstica en Nicaragua. Gendered Perspectives on International Development. Working Paper #295. East Lansing, MI: Gender, Development, and Globalization Program, Michigan State University.

Film:

  • Whalen, K. (Producer), & Grabe, S. (Director). (2013). In Justice and in Health Women's Land Ownership in Nicaragua. [Documentary]. University of California Press. (Available from vimeo.com/40159588).

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