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Michelle K. Williams

Michelle K. Williams

Title: Associate Professor and Director of Clinical

Departmental Program: Clinical

E-mail: michelle.williams@uconn.edu

Office Phone: (860) 486-2512

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-Mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Ethnic and racial identity development
  • Multicultural psychology
  • Sexual and relationship violence
  • Effects of alcohol expectancies on victimization risk

Undergraduate courses:

  • Study of Personality
  • Black Psychology
  • General Psychology II.
  • Multicultural Psychology
  • Introduction to Clinical Psychology

Graduate courses:

  • Ethnic Minority Issues in Psychology

Representative Publications:

  • Ponce, A., Williams, M., & Allen, G. (2004). Experience of maltreatment as a child and acceptance of violence in adult intimate relationships: Mediating effects of distortions in cognitive schema. Violence and Victims, 19, 1-12.
  • Hoburg, R., Klonik, J., Williams, M., & Crawford, M. (2004) Bisexuality among self identified heterosexual college students. Journal of Sexuality,4, 26-36 .
  • Williams, M., Dunlap, M., & McCandies, T. (2002) Women of color and feminist psychology: Moving from criticism and critique to integration and application. In L. Collins, M. Dunlap, and J. Chrisler (Eds.) Charting a New Course for Feminist Psychology. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp. 65-89.
  • Donovan, R., & Williams, M. K. (2002). Living at the intersection: effects of racism and sexism on Black rape survivors. Women in Therapy, 25 (3/4), 95-105.

Other:

  • Faculty Advisor: Minority Advancement Program in Psychology
  • Joint position with African American Studies Institute
  • AAUP Excellence Award for Teaching Promise, 1999