Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill is an American academic. She is a professor of psychology at

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(BYU). From 1994 to 2010, she was the director of the BYU Women's Research Institute.

Early life and education

The daughter of Ariel S. Ballif and Artemesia Romney, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill attended Brigham Young High School in

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and has a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. both from Brigham Young University.

Career

From 1966 to 1968, she was a faculty member at the

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Hawaiʻi system and houses the main offic ...

. From 1968 to 1993 she was on the faculty of

Fordham University Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its origina ...

. While there she was chair of the Division of Psychology and Educational Services. In 1994 she joined the Brigham Young University faculty as a professor of psychology and head of the Women's Research Institute. Ballif-Spanvill is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the

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. 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 Claudia J. Clayton and Melanie D. Hunsaker. 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, Mary Caprioli, Rose McDermott and Chad F. Emmett published in ''International Security'' Vol. 33 issue 3 (Winter 2009). 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.

References

External links

Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill Vita
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