Women in Behavior Science

Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, PhD, BCBA-D, is currently Dean at Waubonsee Community College. She has a 20+ year history of mentoring graduate students in behavior analysis, and has won a number of awards for her teaching and research while a faculty member at Southern Illinois University. Ruth Anne served as Editor for The Psychological Record, President for the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), and is Fellow of both the Association for Behavior Analysis International and the Association for Contextual Behavior Science. Her research has focused on interventions for teaching language and cognitive skills in a variety of populations and settings. Traci M. Cihon was an associate professor at the University of North Texas while this volume was completed. She is the current editor of Behavior and Social Issues, an active member of the Behaviorists for Social Responsibility Special Interest Group of ABAI, and maintains an active research agenda related to include culturo behavior science and behavioral systems analysis, social behavior and social action, behavioral approaches to education (e.g., language acquisition, reading instruction, Precision Teaching), and interdisciplinary collaboration. Erin B. Rasmussen is Professor of Experimental Psychology at Idaho State University. Her research interests are broadly in the area of behavioral economics and behavioral pharmacology. Her specific work, which has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on behavioral economic factors that influence food-based choice related to obesity in both humans and rats.

Part 1: Beginning

1. Planting Seeds: Learning, Growing, and Thriving in Graduate School

Ally Salzer, Jovonnie Esquierdo Leal & Kathryn Roose

2. The Job Search

Corina Jimenez-Gomez & Sarah Richling

3. The First Years of the Job: What My CV Doesn’t Tell You

Shrinidhi Subramaniam

4. Building Values-Consistent Repertoires of Gender Marginalized Academics

Emily K. Sandoz, Janani Vaidya, Brooke M. Smith, Jade Campbell & Karen Kate Kellum

5. Mentoring Relationships: Finding a Mentor, Being Mentored, and Mentoring Others.

Erin Rasmussen, Sierra Baca-Zeff, and Morgan Musquez

6: Mentoring, Mothering, Sistering, and Friending: Building a Caring Mentoring Community

Stephanie Peterson, Cynthia Anderson & Jennifer Wolgemuth

Part 2: Striving and Surviving

7. Scholarship Expectations and Practices across the Academic Landscape

Kelly Banna, Amy L. Odum & Erin B. Rasmussen

8. Promotions

Rocio Rosales

9. Understanding the Importance of Intersectionality in Advancing Community-Engaged Scholarship and Increasing Diversity

Jomella Watson-Thompson & Eric C. Thompson

10. Family Career Balance: Professional and Personal Repertoires Shaped with Love, Enthusiasm, and Strong Models

Martha Hubner and Luiza Hubner

11: Spiritual Activsim

Paula Danquah-Brobby

12. The Experiences of a Female Scientist in the Global Network.

Louise McHugh & Lynn Farrell

13. Transitions

Ariana D’Arms, Amoy Kito Hugh-Pennie, & Denise Ross

14. Chapter Title: Sickness, Health, and Love: Managing Life and Work Demands

Julie Slowiak

Chapter 15. Leisure

Wendy Donlin Washington & Casey Irwin Helvey

Part 3: Thriving

16. Making Something Out Of Nothing or Very Little: A Tale of How to Plant Seeds of Behavior Analysis, How to Cultivate Them, and Enjoy Watching Them Grow and Multiply.

Zuilma Gabriela Sigurðardóttir

17. Expanding

Traci M. Cihon

18. Staying Motivated: An Intermezzo

Ruth Anne Rehfeldt

19. A Cross-Continental Journey through Academia; Life Partners, Tensions, and the People Who Influenced My Path

Lise Roll-Pettersson

20. A Northeast Journey Toward Values-Based Living

Adel Najdowski

21. Promoting Prosociality and Compassion in Competitive Environments

Karola Dillenburger

22. Reflections on Loss and Grief

Traci M. Cihon

23. Capitalizing on Applied Behavior Analysis Within Our Retirement Years

Beth Sulzer-Azaroff