2005 AWP Conference
Feb. 24-27, 2005
Tampa, Florida

Invited Plenary Panel: "Political Psychology: States of Insecurity and the Gendered Politics of Fear."

Dr. Carol Stabile, Dr. Carrie Rentschler, and Dr. Rhoda Unger

Carol A. Stabile, Director Women's Studies Program University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 e-mail: cstabile+@pitt.edu

Carol Stabile is Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Feminism and the Technological Fix (1994), editor of Turning the Century: Essays in Media and Cultural Studies (2000), and co-editor of Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture (2003). Her published essays have appeared in Camera Obscura, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Cultural Studies, Media, Culture, and Society, and Monthly Review. She is currently completing a book on media coverage of crime and beginning research for a project on the red scare, television, and rightwing discourses on family values.

Dr. Carrie Rentschler Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 845 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T5. e-mail: carrie10@pitt.edu

Carrie A. Rentschler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She has published on violence against women and environmental security campaigns, security industries, women's self-defense and media activism. She is currently writing a book on the adoption of therapeutic practices and gendered narratives of injury within the profession of journalism.

Rhoda Unger, Ph.D. Women's Studies Research Center Brandeis University 515 South Street MS 079 Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: (781) 736-8100 Fax: (781) 736-8117 e-mail: unger@brandeis.edu http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/Scholars/R_Unger.html

Rhoda Unger is a professor emerita of psychology at Montclair State University and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Although she received a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University in 1966, she has conducted research and published more than 60 articles and book chapters on the psychology of women since the field's inception in 1972. She has also written and/or edited nine books on the psychology of women and gender. The most recent are: Women and gender, 4th edition (2004); the Handbook of the psychology of women and gender (2001); and Resisting gender: Twenty five years of feminist psychology (1998). She has received a number of awards for her work including the first Carolyn Sherif memorial award and distinguished career citations.

Rhoda Unger has been president of the Society of the Psychology of Women (Division 35) and, more recently, president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of APA). She is currently the inaugural editor of SPSSI's electronic and print journal Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP) whose web address is www.asap-spssi.org. In that capacity she edited the special issue "Terrorism and its consequences" which appeared on the web just two months after September 11, 2001. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Feminism & Psychology on the relationship between feminism and political psychology.

Dr. Unger has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. She has been a Fulbright senior scholar at the University of Haifa in Israel, a visiting fellow for the British Psychological Society, and a noted scholar at the University of British Columbia. In spring, 2004 she was appointed a visiting professor at the Gender Studies Institute of Ochanomizu University in Tokyo.