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Educational Psychology
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Educational Psychology
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Champaign, IL 61820
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Research Biography

Dorothy L. Espelage, Ph.D., is a Professor of Child Development in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  She is an University Scholar and has fellow status in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.  She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Indiana University in 1997.  She has conducted research on bullying, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and dating violence for the last 18 years.  As a result, she presents regularly at regional, national, and international conferences and is author on over 90 professional publications.  She is co-editor of four published books including “Bullying in North American Schools:  A Social-Ecological Perspective on Prevention and Intervention” and “International Handbook of Bullying” published by Routledge.  She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology.  She has presented thousands of workshops and in-service training seminars for teachers, administrators, counselors, and social workers across the U.S.  Her research focuses on translating empirical findings into prevention and intervention programming.  She is currently funded by the CDC for a randomized clinical trial of a bullying prevention program in 36 middle schools.  She authored a 2011 White House Brief on bullying among LGBTQ youth and attended the White House Conference in 2011.  She is also funded by National Science Foundation to develop better methods to assess bullying among adolescents and CDC and NIJ are funding a longitudinal study of predictors of bullying and dating violence among adolescents.  Dr. Espelage has appeared on many television news and talk shows, including The Today Show; CNN; CBS Evening News; The Oprah Winfrey Show, Anderson, Anderson 360 and has been quoted in the national print press, including Time Magazine, USA Today, People, Boston Globe, and the Wall Street Journal.  Her dedicated team of undergraduate and graduate students are committed to the dissemination of the research through various mechanisms (www.espelageagainstbully.com)

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Indiana University, 1997
  • M.A., Clinical Psychology, Radford University, 1993
  • B.S., Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1991

Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007--
  • Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2007
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Counseling Psychology Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2004

Activities & Honors

  • Incoming Vice President, AERA Division E, 2010-2013
  • Fellow Status, American Psychological Association Division 17 (Society of, Society of Counseling Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2005- present
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005- present
  • University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2008
  • Secretary, Division E, American Educational Research Association, 2005-2007
  • University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005
  • Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) Fritz Linn & Kuder Early Scientist/Practitioner Career Award, American Psychological Association, 2004
  • R. Stewart Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, Unknown, 2001-2002
  • Teacher of the Year, Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society, College of Education, 2001
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Delta Sigma Omicron, College of Education, 2000
  • R. Stewart Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, College of Education, 1998-1999
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2001
  • Paul Munger Award - Outstanding Graduate Student, Indiana University, 1996

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Bullying, Sexual, and Dating Violence Trajectories from Early to Late Adolescence, National Institute of Justice, 2012
  • Co-Principal Investigator, Analyzing Partially Observable Computer-Adolescent Networks, National Science Foundation, 2010
  • Principal Investigator, Multi-site Evaluation of Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (Second Step -SSTP) in Preventing Bullying and Sexual Violence, Centers for Disease Control, 2009
  • Senior Personnel, CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research: Groupscope: Instrumenting Research on Interaction Networks in Complex Social Contexts, National Science Foundation, 2009
  • Principal Investigator, Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models, Centers for Disease Control, 2007
  • Principal Investigator, Bullying as a Peer Group Process During Early Adolescence, Campus Research Board, 1999
  • Principal Investigator, Validation of a Disease-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire for Cystic Fibrosis, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (University of Florida), 1999
  • Fellow, Faculty Fellow, Bureau of Educational Research, 1999
  • Principal Investigator, Arnold O. Beckman Award, Campus Research Board, 1998

Selected Publications

  • Swearer, S. M., & Espelage, D. L. (2011). A social-ecological framework of bullying among youth.  In D. L. Espelage, & S. M. Swearer (Eds.), Bullying in North American schools. New York: Routledge. 
  • Robinson, J.P. & Espelage, D.L. (2011).  Inequities in educational and psychological outcomes between LGBTQ and straight students in middle and high school.  Educational Researcher, 40, 315-330.   
  • Espelage, D.L., & Poteat, V.P.  (2012). School-based prevention of peer relationship problems.  In Betsy Altmaier & Jo-Ida Hansen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Counseling Psychology (pp. 703 – 722).  New York:  Oxford University Press.    
  • Espelage, D. L., & Swearer, S. M. (2010). Bullying and peer harassment. In H. Walker, M. Shinn, & G. Stoner (Eds.), Interventions for achievement and behavior in a three-tier model including RTI. New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Espelage, D. L., & Swearer, S. M. (2010). A social-ecological model for bullying prevention and intervention: Understanding the impact of adult communities children live in. In S. R. Jimerson, S. M. Swearer, & D. L. Espelage (Eds.), The handbook of bullying in schools: An international perspective (pp. 61-72). New York: Routledge.

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