2024-present: Professor Emerita, Community Cultural Psychology, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Lynch School of Education and Human Development
2005-2024: Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College; Co-Director, 2016-2024; Associate Director, 2005-2016
1997-2023: Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Lynch School of Education, on leave 1999-2001
2008-2014: Chair, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Lynch School of Education,
2003-2007: Associate Dean, Boston College, Lynch School of Education
1999-2001: Chair of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Coordinator of MA in Community-Counseling Psychology, Associate Chairperson, Department of Psychology with portfolios in Staffing, Research & Equity
1997-1998: Acting Associate Dean, Boston College, School of Education.
1996-1997: Department Chair, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Research Methods, Boston College, School of Education.
1992-1997: Associate Professor and Coordinator: Human Development Program, Boston College, School of Education.
UNDERGRADUATE: Personality Theories; Psychology of Adolescence; Child, Growth and Society; Child and Society; Global Ethics and Pragmatic Solidarity: Taking Action towards Transformative Change; Psychology and the construction of childhood and youth: Theory and Research in Action
GRADUATE: Culture and Psychology; Participatory Action Research: Gender, Race, and Power; History of Psychology; Alternative Strategies for Working with Children in Contexts of Organized Violence; Psychology of Women; Interdisciplinary Seminar in Human Rights and International Justice; Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Race, Class, and Gender
July 2024: Global Mental Health and Human Rights: perspectives environmental, gender and economic racism. Venice International University, Venice, Italy.
February 2015; July 2015: Investigación Acción Participativa: Territorios, Migraciones y Subjectividades [Participatory Action Research: Territories, Migration and Subjectivities], with Ursula Roldán y Universidad del Rafael Landivar y Megan Thomas
October 2007; August 2010; August 2014; August 2016: Professor, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala. Maestría en Consejería Psicológica y Salud Mental: Consejería/Comunitaria [MA Program in Counseling Psychology & Mental Health: Module in Community Counseling Psychology]
1991-1992: Visiting Scholar, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
1989-1990: Research leave. Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental, Buenos Aires, Argentina & Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud, Guatemala. Research/training workshops: Talleres creativos para el trabajo con niños afectados por el terror de Estado [Creative workshops for working with children affected by state terror].
1988-1991: Associate Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College, Providence. Courses taught: Social Psychology; Psychology of Women; Psychology of Race & Class; Women and Men: Psychological Perspectives on Gender; Adolescent Psychology.
1984-1988: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
Summer 1988: Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud. Chimaltenango, Guatemala. Seminario/Taller: Estrategias de prevención y rol de los promotores en salud mental [Prevention and the role of mental health promoters], with J.J. Fariña and Rosa Maciel.
1983-1984: Instructor, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Course taught: Psychology and Women.
1981-1984: Instructor, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Courses taught: Viewpoints on Insanity, with William Ryan; Women & Men: Understanding Self in Social Context; Idea of Insanity.
1980-1981: Research Intern, Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College. Developed coding systems for social psychological and personality variables from TATs and open‑ended interview data. Specific statistical experience: anova, regression, factor analysis using SPSS, and Datatext.
1979-1980: Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Course: Major Themes in Psychological Thought.
1978-1979: Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Experimental research in social psychology. Skills include research design, use of video equipment, and data analysis, using SPSS and BMD.
1977-1978: Consultant and clinical intern. Advisory Resource Center, Boston University, MA.
1977-1978: Instructor. Community Mental Health Program, Laselle Junior College. Course taught: Community Resources.
1975-1976: Faculty‑Staff. Seminary Quarter at Grailville, Loveland, OH. Summers.
1973-1977: Coordinator of Women's Programs and Instructor in Applied Theology. Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Courses taught: Ministry and Human Sexuality; Ministry: Women Working with Women.