Gloria Leon

Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and the Greeks (eBook, ePUB)

A Research Psychologist on the Move

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Produktbeschreibung

The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author's career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. Throughout the memoir, the author presents short summaries of her research methods and findings; however, the focus of the book is on her personal experiences - the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation that she encountered while conducting this research.

There is an array of events, some quite unique, that are detailed in the book, starting with Academia - challenges of teaching a psychology course at an American army base in Orleans, France; completing a doctoral degree at the University of Maryland while raising a family; academic activities and a 1972 sex discrimination complaint against Rutgers University, one of the first cases in the country following the passage of the Federal Title IX civil rights law; initial research as an assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Minnesota, including studies of Holocaust survivors and their families, and Vietnam nurses; The Russian Drama - continuing research on stress and coping through four trips to the Soviet Union/Russia during a period when an entire country disappeared and a new one was formed (travel to Chernobyl only six years after the disaster, Magadan in Siberia where the major gulags were/are located) and her sometimes rather unbelievable experiences during that time; Expedition Adventures as an analog for long-duration planetary missions - studies of single and mixed gender national and international civilian and military polar expedition teams to simulate aspects of long-duration lunar and Mars missions, studied on-site in the Canadian Nunavut Territories and during three trips to Danish military stations in Greenland; Greece Disaster Connections - psychosocial training workshops for disaster response and research on the aftermath of disasters through collaboration with colleagues from Athens and Cairo. The author's activities with the NASA Human Research Program over the years also is summarized.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839982743
• Artikelnr.: 63388417

Autorenporträt

Gloria Rakita Leon is professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Minnesota. She is internationally known for her research on stress and coping in extreme environments.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Carol Amaratunga
Preface
Academia
1. University of Maryland Overseas Extension Division, Orléans, France
2. University of Maryland, College Park
3. Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Newark, New Jersey
4. University of Minnesota
The Russian Drama
5. The Beginning
6. Moscow Trip
7. Minnesota Bering Bridge Conference
8. Moscow, Archangelsk, Magadan Trip
9. Interlude
10. Moscow, Kiev, Chernobyl, St. Petersburg, Ryazan Trip
11. Interlude
12. Moscow and Minsk Trip
13. Epilogue
Expedition Adventures
14. Steger International Polar Expedition
15. Expedition Network
16. Soviet-American Bering Bridge Expedition
17. All-Women Expedition (Awe), South Pole
18. Sverdrup Centennial Expedition, Canada
19. Two-Woman Antarctic Traverse
20. Greenland Studies
21. Expedition Ice Maidens
22. Epilogue
Greece Connections
23. Athens, Peloponnese Peninsula
24. Athens, Delphi, Greek Islands
25. Athens, Corinth, Istanbul, Cappadocia
26. Interlude
27. Athens, Kephalonia
28. Athens, Temple of Poseidon, Marathon
29. Epilogue
Afterword
Selected References
Index.