Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Brigham Young University |
Occupation | Professor |
Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill is an American academic. She is a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University (BYU). From 1994 to 2010, she was the director of the BYU Women's Research Institute.[1][2][3]
The daughter of Ariel S. Ballif and Artemesia Romney,[4] Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah and has a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. both from Brigham Young University.[5][6]
From 1966 to 1968, she was a faculty member at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[5] From 1968 to 1993 she was on the faculty of Fordham University.[7][8] While there she was chair of the Division of Psychology and Educational Services.[9] In 1994 she joined the Brigham Young University faculty as a professor of psychology and head of the Women's Research Institute.[10]
Ballif-Spanvill is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association.[10] 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.[11] 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).[12][13][14] 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.[15]
Ballif-Spanvill is married to Robert J. Spanvill.[8]