Carolyn M. West | |
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Born | Carolyn Marie West |
Awards | 2004 American Psychological Association’s Carolyn Payton Early Career Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
Thesis | Courtship violence among African-Americans (1994) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Washington Tacoma |
Main interests | Family violence and human sexuality |
Notable works | Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue |
Website | Dr. Carolyn West |
Carolyn Marie West[1] is associate professor of psychology (family violence and human sexuality course), at the University of Washington Tacoma,[2] and was the first holder of the Bartley Dobb Professorship for the Study and Prevention of Violence (2005-2008).[3]
West is one of the chief editors of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society.[4] She also sits on the editorial boards of Partner Abuse[5] and Women & Therapy,[6] and was previously on the editorial board of Sex Roles.[7]