Professor Irene Hanson Frieze has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 1972. She was hired in Psychology and Women’s Studies to help develop the Women’s Studies Program. She came from UCLA in Los Angeles, where she received all her university degrees. Today, her major research areas are IPV [Intimate Partner Violence] and a cross-cultural study of changing work, family, and gender attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe and the United States. She works on several other topics too. [She finds that moving from one research area to another helps keep things more interesting]. One of her major activities now is being editor of the journal, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. She also keeps busy with the faculty Senate at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as being past-President and now co-chair of the Publications Committee for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Contact Information:
- Office: 3329 Sennot Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
- Phone: 412-624-4336
- Fax: 412-624-4428
- Email: frieze ATpitt.edu
Positions Held:
- Professor of Psychology, Business Administration, and Women's Studies
- Editor of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
- Author of Hurting the One You Love
- Co-Chair, Publication Committee of Society for the Pyschological Study of Social Issues
- Past President of University Senate
- Former Editor of Journal of Social Issues
- Chair of Senate ad hoc Committee for the Promotion of Gender Equity
- Webmaster of Researchers' Caucus, Association for Women in Psychology
