Sherry L. Hamby
Research Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S., M.A., College of William and Mary; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Sherry Hamby is a Research Associate Professor of Psychology at Sewanee, the University of the South. She teaches Psychology of Gender and Psychology of Violence, and supervises student research on violence and victimization.
Research co-authored with students has recently been presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association annual conference (co-authors include Daniel McKelvey, C’09, Kaki Nix, C’10, and Lucy Taylor C’10) and the International Family Violence and Child Victimization Research Conference in New Hampshire (co-authors included Chetna Chandrasekaran, C’11, Amy Jackson C’09, Kaki Nix, C’10, and Ann Thomasson, C’09). With Amy Jackson, she has recently published an article on perceptions of dating violence (Hamby & Jackson, 2010, Sex Roles).
In addition to these activities, Dr. Hamby’s scholarship focuses on the methodological and measurement challenges of violence research and cross-cultural issues in measuring and intervening for violence.
Dr. Hamby is the Editor for a new journal, Psychology of Violence, published by the American Psychological Association.
She has served on two expert panels for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: the Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Definitions Reconciliation panel and the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Surveillance System panel.
Dr. Hamby is also the author or co-author of more than 50 publications on family violence and youth victimization, including The Conflict Tactics Scales Handbook and Sortir Ensemble et Se Respecter, the first Swiss dating violence prevention program. With Mary Beth Skupien, she conducted the first reservation-based study of intimate partner violence among American Indians.
A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Hamby has received awards from the National Register for Health Service Providers in Psychology and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
Email: sherry.hamby@sewanee.edu
