Dr. Anne E Brodsky
Professor · Tenured
About
Anne Brodsky is a community/clinical psychologist and professor. Her work focuses on risk and resilience, psychological sense of community, and how U.S. and Afghan communities create and resist societal risks and oppressions. Dr. Brodsky has served as Director of GWST (2005-2008), Associate Chair of Psychology (2008-2011), CAHSS Associate Dean for Research (2012-2016), Interim Director of MIPAR (2017-2018), and created the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship (2017-2018), and Chair of Psychology (2018-2024). She earned her A.B. from Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from UMCP. She completed her clinical internship at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School, and a Postdoc in Prevention Science at Johns Hopkins. She was a 2016-2017 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow.
Research interests
Dr. Brodsky's scholarship takes a strengths-based, largely qualitative and feminist approach to the study of risk and protective factors, resilience and empowerment, psychological sense of community, diversity and inclusion. She is the author of over 50 articles and chapters on these subjects, as well as one book, With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Routledge, 2003).
Teaching interests
Dr. Brodsky's teaching focuses on community psychology, strength-based research and intervention, qualitative methods, and diversity and inclusion in psychology.
Education
- Postdoc, Prevention Science — Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health (1997)
- Ph D, Clinical/Community Psychology — UMCP (1995)
- , APA Approved Clinical Psychology Internship — APA Accredited Clinical Internship, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School (1994)
- MA, Clinical/Community Psychology — UMCP (1992)
- BA, History & Psychology — Vassar College (1987)
Publications
- Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members: Results from a cross-national qualitative study. 2019
- Shared Communities: A Multinational Qualitative Study of Immigrant and Receiving Community Members 2018
- Bridging the Dialectic: Diversity, Psychological Sense of Community, and Inclusion 2017
- Taking a Stand: The Next 50 Years of Community Psychology 2016
- Introduction to Qualitative Methods 2016
Presentations
- Synchronous IRL/DL Technologies for Innovative Teaching 2023
- Synchronous IRL/DL Technologies for Innovative Teaching 2023
- Democracy, Voice, and Belonging: A Transnational Test of the Transtheoretical Model of Empowerment and Resilience (TMER) 2018
- M-PSOC and the acculturation process: A cross-cultural study on three different immigrant groups. 2017
- Recruitment, retention, and diversification of an excellent faculty 2016
- Promoting growth and development at Swarthmore through resilience and empowerment 2016
Research in Progress
- Hrabowski Fund for Innovation—Adaptation Grant 2020
Courses Taught
- Master's Thesis Research
- Honors Thesis Research
- Research Exper In Psych
- Master's Thesis Research
- Hum Div Rsrch & Interv
- Research Exper In Psych