Anne E. Brodsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Degree: Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Clinical/Community Psychology, 1995

Area: Community/Clinical Psychology

Office: MP 332 x (410) 455-2416
Lab: SS404 x (410) 455-6555
Fax: (410) 455-1055

E-mail: brodsky@umbc.edu

Website: not provided by instructor

Research Interests

Risk, Resilience and Women's Communities

Selected Publications

Brodsky, A. E. (2003). With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. New York: Routledge.

Brodsky, A.E., Rogers-Senuta, K., Weiss, C.L., Marx, C. M., Loomis, C.,Arteaga, S., Moore, H., Benhorin, R, & Casteganera, A. (accepted). When one plus one equals three: The role of relationships in community research.American Journal of Community Psychology.

Brodsky, A.E. & Ovwigho, P. C. (2002). Swimming against the tide: Connecting Low-Income Women to Living Wage Jobs. Journal of Poverty. 6(3)

Brodsky, A. E., Loomis, C., Marx, C. M. (2002). Expanding the concept of PSOC. In Fisher, A.T., Sonn, C.C., & Bishop, B. J. (Eds.). Psychological sense of community: Research, applications and implications.
Kluwer: New York.

Brodsky, A. E. (2001). More than epistemology: Relationships in applied research with under-served communities. Journal of Social Issues, 57(2), 323-335.

Graduate Mentees

Colleen Loomis
Katherine Rogers Senuta
Pam Caudill Owvigho
Shannon Gwin Mitchell
Cat Weis
Sonia Arteaga
Harriette Wimms
Nicole Yee
Rona Benhorin
Janelle Barlage
Mariana Litovich

Recent Studies/Projects

Dr. Brodsky's teaching, research and practice focuses on the resilience of women and the role of communities in resisting societal risks, including community violence, poverty, racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. Using qualitative, feminist methods, her work has explored resilient processes and the role of psychological sense of community for single mothers raising children in risky neighborhoods of Washington, DC, for low income women in a holistic job training and education program in Baltimore,MD, and non-parenting young women in communities with high rates of single and teen parenting. She is the author of 15 articles and chapters on these subjects.

The most recent extension of these interests is her work with Afghan women and RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, a 26 year-old humanitarian and political women's organization that operates clandestinely in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dr. Brodsky has been working with RAWA for over three years to support their efforts to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women under fundamentalist oppression, give voice to Afghan women's lives and concerns, and document the active resistance of RAWA and other Afghan women to the Taliban and other the other jehadi factions, including those now part of the interim government. She is the author of a book on RAWA, Afghan women's resilience, and community, entitled With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan published by Routledge (2003).

Frequently taught courses

Community Psychology (graduate and undergraduate)
Psychology of Women
Community/Social Psychology Seminar