Professor Irene Hanson Frieze has worked at the University of Pittsburgh since 1972. She was hired in Psychology and Women’s Studies to help develop the Women’s Studies Program. She came from UCLA in Los Angeles, where she received all her university degrees. Today, her major research areas are IPV (Intimate Partner Violence), psychological factors in travel and migration, and a cross-cultural study of changing work, family, and gender attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. She works on several other topics too. (She finds that moving from one research area to another helps keep things more interesting.) One of her current major activities is being editor of the journal, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. She also keeps busy with the faculty Senate at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as being co-chair of the Publications Committee for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
