Carolyn M. West
Carolyn Marie West is associate professor of psychology, at the University of Washington Tacoma, and was the first holder of the Bartley Dobb Professorship for the Study and Prevention of Violence.
West is one of the chief editors of the journal Sexualization, Media, and Society. She also sits on the editorial boards of Partner Abuse and Women & Therapy, and was previously on the editorial board of Sex Roles.
Education
West gained her degree in 1986, her masters in 1988 and her doctorate in clinical psychology in 1994. She studied for all three at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. West carried out her predoctoral internship at the University of Notre Dame Counseling Center and Oaklawn Hospital, IndianaCareer
West completed a postdoctoral research scholarship at the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory. She has also served as an expert witness in domestic violence cases involving victim-defendants and testified at Congressional Briefings in Washington, DC.Awards
- 2000 Outstanding Research Award from the University of Minnesota's Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community.
- 2004 American Psychological Association's Carolyn Payton Early Career Award.
- 2013 University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award.
Books
*Chapters in books
1995–1999- Description of "Mammy", "Sapphire", and "Jezebel".
2005–2009
2010–2014
2015 onwards
Journal articles
1990–19992000–2009
- Issue of Women & Therapy which used a Black feminist framework to investigate childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and community violence in the lives of African American women.
- West, Carolyn M.. ""My soul looks back and wonders how I made it over": battered Black women's healing journey". Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.
- West, Carolyn M.. "African immigrant women and intimate partner violence: "The Oceans and Elephants Between Us"". Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma.