Sharon Presley, Ph.D.
484 Lake Park.Avenue, No. 24
Oakland, California 94610
Office: (925) 228-0565
E-mail: presley@sharonpresley.org
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Social Psychology CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
GRADUATE CENTER
Dissertation: "Values and Attitudes of Political Resisters to
Authority"
Chairman: Stanley Milgram
M.A., Psychology SAN FRANCISCO
STATE COLLEGE
B.A., Psychology UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
March 1999 – present Lecturer
California State University, East Bay (formerly
Hayward)
Introductory Psychology
Critical Thinking
Psychology of Women
Social Psychology
Research Methods
Groups and Organizations
Social/Personality Lab
Individual Differences
Personal Growth
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Lab
June 1999 – Fall
2000 Lecturer
Diablo Valley College
Personality
Introductory Psychology
Psychology of Women
August 1987 - December
1993 Lecturer
California State University, Northridge, Fullerton
Introductory Psychology
Social Psychology (Lecture and
Lab/Seminar)
Developmental Psychology (Lecture
and Lab/Seminar)
Dynamics of Individual Behavior
(Lecture and Lab/Seminar)
Psychology of Women and Men
Introduction to Women's Studies
Introduction to Personality
Motivation
Abnormal Psychology
Directed Research
Spring, 1992 Lecturer
Los Angeles City College
Special Education Program (PacBell Adult
Education)
Introductory Psychology
February - June 1991 Lecturer
Glendale Community College
Introductory
Psychology
September - December, 1989
Adjunct Associate Professor
California School of Professional
Psychology
Los Angeles
Sex Roles
Summer 1988 Lecturer
Pacific Graduate School of Psychology
Menlo Park, California
Social Psychology
August 1984 - May
1987 (Temporary) Assistant Professor
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Social Psychology
Psychology of Women
Environmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Normal Personality
Graduate Seminar on Obedience and
Resistance to Authority
Graduate Seminar on Moral Judgment
Graduate Seminar on Critiques of
Biological Theories of
Gender-related Behavior
Directed Research
Directed Reading
Summer 1985, Spring
1986 Adjunct Professor
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa
Theories of Personality
Psychology of Women
August 1983 - May
1984 Visiting (Assistant) Professor
The College of Wooster
Wooster, Ohio
Introductory Psychology
Psychology of Women
Advanced Social Psychology
Marxism: Theory and
Critique (team teacher)
September 1982 - June
1983 Visiting (Assistant) Professor
Weber State College
Ogden, Utah
Introductory Psychology
Psychology of Women
Social Psychology
Senior Seminar on the Individual
and Authority
Directed Research
Summer, 1982
Instructor
College of San Mateo
San Mateo, California
Introductory Psychology
Summer, 1982 Instructor
John F. Kennedy University (Upper division
& graduate)
Orinda, California
Theories of Personality
TEACHING INTERESTS
Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology of Women,
Critical Thinking, Psychology of Gender, Developmental, Personality,
Personality Development, Individual Differences, the Individual and
Authority, Moral Judgment, Environmental Psychology, Research Methods
(especially field and survey), Political Behavior, Social Influence,
Women's Studies, Sex Roles,
Journal Articles
Presley, S., Weaver, J. & Weaver, B. (1985/1986). Traditional
and nontraditional Mormon women: socialization and political attitudes.
Women and Politics.
5(4), 51-77.
Presley, S. (1985). Moral judgments and
attitudes toward authority of political resisters. Journal of Research in Personality.
19, 135-151.
Conference Papers
Presley, S., Wagner, L., Hanken,A.& Vagner, I. Images of women in
music videos. Paper presented at
Western Psychological Association, 1991 convention.
Presley, S. & Zur, O. The New York vigilante dilemma: gender
comparisons in moral reasoning.
American Psychological Association, 1989 Convention.
Presley, S. Politically active and nonactive
women: attitudes toward women and authority.
Western Psychological Association, 1987 Convention.
Presley, S. (1986). Personality and social behavior.
Chair of panel at Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago.
Presley, S. (1986). Mormon feminists and traditional Mormon
women: differences in socialization.
Eastern Psychological Association, New York.
Presley, S. (1985). Attitudes of Mormon women toward authority
and social equality for women.
Western Psychological Association Convention, San
Jose, California.
Presley, S. (1984). Moral judgment and attitudes toward authority
in political resisters.
Midwest Political Science Association Convention, Chicago.
Presley, S. (1983). Mormon women: views on marriage and the
family.
Ninth Annual GLCA Women's Studies Conference, Rochester, Indiana.
Presley, S. (1983). Content bias in the defining issues test: a
critique.
Western Psychologocsl Association Convention, San Francisco.
Presley, S. (1982). Values and attitudes of political resisters
to authority.
American Psychological Association Convention, Washington, D.C.
Presley, S. (1981). Women resisters to authority.
Association for Women in Psychology Conference, Boston.
Presley, S. (1981). Resistance to authority: a psychological
perspective.
Center for Libertarian Studies, New York City.
Presley, S. (1980). Obedience and resistance to authority.
Seminar on Perceived Psychological
Freedom, Institute for Humane Studies, Toronto.
Presley, S. (1979). Psychology of rights.
Center for Libertarian Studies, New York
City.
Research Grants, Awards and Fellowships
"Survey of Women Political Activists"
Research grants,
1985-1987
Graduate College
Iowa State University
Ludwig von Mises Fellowship in the Social Sciences
Summer writing grant,
1983
Center for
Libertarian Studies
New York City
"Socialization of Mormon Feminists"
Research grant, 1982
Research and
Professional Growth Committee
Weber State College
Hayek Fund Fellowship
Travel grant to
International Society of Political Psychology Conference, 1982
Institute for Humane
Studies
Menlo Park, California
"Early 20th Century Libertarian Women"
Research grant, 1978
Center for Libertarian
Studies
New York City
Related Historical Publications about
Resistance to Authority
Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of
Voltairine de Cleyre co-edited with Crispin Sartwell, with
commentaries,
State University of New York Press, 2005. Choice (American Library
Association) Award. 2005.
Outstanding Academic Title
"John Henry Mackay: the Anarchist", new preface to the Special
Centenary Edition of The Anarchists: a
Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century,
New York: Autonomedia, 2000.
“No Authority But Oneself: The Anarchist Feminist Philosophy of
Autonomy and Freedom,” Social
Anarchism, No. 27, 1999
“Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Individualism: A Feminist Psychologist’s
Perspective”
in C. Sciabarra (ed.)
Feminist Interpretations ofAyn
Rand, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999
"Feminism in Liberty: the 'Woman Question' in the Pages of Liberty,
1881-1908," in Benjamin R. Tucker and
the Champions of Liberty: A Centenary Anthology, Coughlin
Publishers, 1987.
"Individualist Anarchist Feminists: American Women (and Men) Resisters
to Authority". Presented at
National Women's History Week, Iowa
State University, March, 1985.
"The New Freewomen: Suzanne LaFollette," Libertarian Review, January, 1981.
"Suzanne LaFollette," paper presented at the Center for Libertarian
Studies, 1980.