James M. O'Neil
Professor

James M. O'Neil, Ph.D. is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut and a licensed psychologist in private practice in South Windsor, Connecticut. In 1975, he received his doctorate from the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland. He has taught undergraduate and graduate students for the last thirty years at three universities. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in Divisions 17, 35, 43, 51, 52. He is one of the founding members of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity (SPSMM), Division 51 of the American Psychological Association. SPSMM named him Researcher of the Year in 1997 for his 20-year research program on men's gender role conflict. His research programs relate to men and masculinity, gender role conflict, psychology of men and women, primary prevention, and violence and victimization. He is the author of the Gender Role Conflict Scale, a widely used measure of men's conflict with their gender roles. His most recent book (with Michele Harway) is What Causes Men's Violence Against Women? (Sage, 1999). In 1991, he was awarded a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to lecture in the former Soviet Union. He lectured at Moscow State Pedagogical University from February through April, 1992, on such topics as psychological counseling, psychology of gender roles, and victimization. In 1995, he was awarded Teaching Fellow status by the University of Connecticut for his outstanding excellence and dedication to the university teaching profession.

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Gentry - 413C

Phone: (860) 486-4281

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Mailing Address:
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook
U-2064
Storrs, CT 06269

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Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 56, Division of Trauma Psychology, August, 2007

Awarded Outstanding Alumni Scholar, Alumni Office, University of Maryland, College of Education, College Park, Md., November, 17, 2005

Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division 52, International Psycholoogy, August, 1998

Fulbright Teaching Award to the former Soviet Union (Russia), Fulbright Scholar Program, February-April, 1992, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Awarded Teaching Fellow Status, Teaching Institute, Provost Office, University of Connecticut, May, 1995

Areas of Expertise:

Gender Role Conflict Research

Counseling of Men and Boys

Psychology of Men

Psychology of Women and Girls

School Counseling

Violence Against Women

Primary Prevention

Psychoeducation

Racism and Other Forms of Opression

Forgiveness

Funded Research:

Gender Role Conflict Research Program