Ronald F. Levant is a psychologist, a professor, and a former president of the

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(APA). After earning an undergraduate degree at the

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, Levant completed a

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(EdD) at

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. He also holds a

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(MBA) from

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. Much of Levant's work has focused on men and fatherhood. At Boston University in the 1980s, Levant taught eight-week parenting courses for fathers. He co-authored the parenting guide ''Between Father and Child'' in the 1980s. From 2007 to 2015, he served as the editor of the journal '' Psychology of Men and Masculinity''. He is widely considered one of the key people responsible for creating the new field of the psychology of men and masculinities. He was included in the Elsevier-Stanford University data base listing the top 2% of scientists in the world. His subfields are listed as social psychology (rank # 577) and clinical psychology (rank # 626). Levant is a psychology professor emeritus at the

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. He has also held faculty appointments at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Rutgers University and

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. He was the APA president in 2005. He is also a former president of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and of two Divisions of APA: 43 (Family Psychology) and 51 (Psychology of Men and Masculinities). He was awarded the

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in 2011. His coauthored book, ''The Tough Standard: The Hard Truths About Masculinity and Violence'' (2020, Oxford University Press, with Shana Pryor) won the William James Book Award from Division 1 (General Psychology) of APA in 2021.

Selected publications

* (with John Kelly). . * . * ''Masculinity Reconstructed''. Dutton, 1995. (With Gini Kopecky). ISBN 0-525-93846-X * (editor, with Gary R. Brooks). . * (with Y. Joel Wong). . * (with Shana Pryor). . * (with Shana Pryor). * (with Alisa Bowman).

References

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