who i am, and what i do

I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern California, where I conducted research on the causes of aggression.  After finishing my doctorate, I trained as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of New Hampshire at the Family Research Laboratory, and then began my career in public higher education in Massachusetts.  In 1993 I started teaching as an Assistant Professor at Bridgewater State University.  I am a full Professor there today, in the Department of Psychology.

In 2004, I was awarded the first Presidential Fellowship at Bridgewater State University to found a Center to work on understanding and reducing bullying and cyberbullying.  This was the beginning of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, or "MARC," an academic Center in public higher education, committed to a public health model for bullying and cyberbullying prevention for the state of Massachusetts.    We offer some programs and services for other states as well.  Today, we have approximately forty faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, and support staff working at MARC.  And we still deliver high-quality bullying and cyberbullying prevention services to K-12 schools and other stakeholders - usually, at no cost to those within Massachusetts . 

The Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center conducts research and provides many types of programs and services to schools.  I am, at heart, a researcher, and I believe in basing the training materials I author on the research I conduct.  There's a link to the right of this paragraph, if you'd like to read some of my research papers. 

In addition to papers  that are published primarily in academic journals, I've also authored a great many other materials that you may find useful.  There are materials written for parents, teachers, and/or administrators about understanding and responding to bullying and cyberbullying.  There are bullying and cyberbullying Curricula (one for grades K-5 and one for grades 9-12).  (Both are research-based.)  

I've trained tens of thousands of teachers, counselors, and administrators, thousands of students, and have been teaching graduate and undergraduate students for almost 20 years.  I present at local and national conferences every year across the United States.  I am the author of two books: Understanding Violence, out in three editions and published by Erlbaum, and Bullying Online, Offline, and Between the Lines, currently in progress for Harvard Press.