Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill

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Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill
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EducationBrigham Young University
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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]

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Personal life

Ballif-Spanvill is married to Robert J. Spanvill. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill | University of Iowa Press - The University of Iowa". uipress.uiowa.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  2. ↑ "UVU announces Women's Success Center, Bonnie Baliff-Spanvill Endowment". heraldextra.com. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  3. ↑ "BYU students decry demise of Women's Research Institute | Deseret News". Deseret News . 2018-09-23. Archived from the original on 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  4. ↑ "Death: Ariel S. Ballif, Jr". Deseret News . 23 April 1994.
  5. 1 2 "BYU WOMEN'S INSTITUTE GAINS A NEW DIRECTOR". Deseret News. 1994-07-12. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  6. ↑ "Alumni". www.byhigh.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  7. ↑ "Toy Story: Catching Up with Howard Wexler, Inventor of the Classic Game Connect 4". Fordham Newsroom. 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  8. 1 2 "The Power of A Snowflake". LDS Women Project. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  9. ↑ "BYU WOMEN'S INSTITUTE GAINS A NEW DIRECTOR". Deseret News. 1994-07-12. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  10. 1 2 "Woman Stats Project Principal Investigators". www.womanstats.org. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  11. ↑ Clayton, Claudia J.; Ballif-Spanvill, Bonnie; Hunsaker, Melanie D. (2001-12-01). "Preventing violence and teaching peace: A review of promising and effective antiviolence, conflict-resolution, and peace programs for elementary school children". Applied and Preventive Psychology. 10 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1016/S0962-1849(05)80030-7. ISSN   0962-1849.
  12. ↑ link to Article from Harvard
  13. ↑ Clayton, C.; Ballif-Spanvill, Bonnie; Barlow, S.; Orton, R. (2003). "Terrorism as Group Violence". Journal of Threat Assessment. 2 (3): 9–40. doi:10.1300/J177V02N03_02. S2CID   146602456.
  14. ↑ Hudson, Valerie M.; Caprioli, Mary; Ballif-Spanvill, Bonnie; McDermott, Rose; Emmett, Chad F. (2008). "The Heart of the Matter: The Security of Women and the Security of States". International Security. 33 (3): 7–45. doi:10.1162/isec.2009.33.3.7. ISSN   0162-2889. JSTOR   40207140. S2CID   9317559.
  15. ↑ Ballif-Spanvill, Bonnie; Clayton, Claudia J.; Hendrix, Suzanne B. (2003). "Gender, types of conflict, and individual differences in the use of violent and peaceful strategies among children who have and have not witnessed interparental violence". American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 73 (2): 141–153. doi:10.1037/0002-9432.73.2.141. ISSN   1939-0025. PMID   12769236.
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