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Joan Ostrove, Associate Professor (B.A. Williams College, 1987; Certificate
in Women's Studies, University of Michigan, 1994; PhD, University of
Michigan, 1996)
Joan Ostrove's research concerns the connections between individual psychology and social structure. She is particularly interested in the ways in which our positions in the social structure (specifically with respect to gender and social class, and also with respect to disability), and at particular historical moments, shape our individual psychological experiences.
She has pursued these interests in the domains of women's midlife personality development, socioeconomic status and health, social class and the college experience, and relationships between people with disabilities and non-disabled people.
Currently, she is working on projects related to how social class background shapes people's experiences at college, on how processes of comparing ourselves to other people across the social hierarchy might be related to our physical health, and on how people build alliances across differences related to social identity, especially in the areas of disability and race.
Selected publications include (undergraduate/Macalester Alumnus co-authors indicated by *):
Ostrove, J. M., & Long, S. M.* (2007). Social class and belonging: Implications for college adjustment. The Review of Higher Education, 30, 363-389.
Ostrove, J. M., & Crawford, D.* (2006). One lady was so busy staring at me she walked into a wall: Interability relations from the perspective of women with disabilities. Disability Studies Quarterly, 26 (3).
Ostrove, J. M., & Cole., E. R. (2003). Privileging class: Toward a critical psychology of social class in the context of education. Journal of Social Issues, 59 , 677-692.
Ostrove, J. M. (2003). Belonging and wanting: Meanings of social class background for women's constructions of their college experiences. Journal of Social Issues, 59 , 771-784.
Crawford, D.*, & Ostrove, J. M. (2003). Representations of disability and the interpersonal relationships of women with disabilities. Women & Therapy, 26 , 179-194.
Stewart, A. J., Ostrove, J. M., & Helson, R. (2001). Middle aging in women: Patterns of personality change from the 30s to the 50s. Journal of Adult Development, 8 , 23-37.
Ostrove, J. M., Adler, N. E., Kuppermann, M., & Washington, E. (2000). Objective and subjective assessments of socioeconomic status and their relationship to self-rated health in an ethnically diverse sample of pregnant women. Health Psychology, 19 , 613-618.
Ostrove, J. M., Feldman, P., & Adler, N. E. (1999). Relations among socioeconomic status indicators and health for African Americans and Whites. Journal of Health Psychology, 4 , 451-463.
Ostrove, J. M., & Stewart, A. J. (1998). Representing Radcliffe: Perceptions and consequences of social class. Journal of Adult Development, 5 , 183-193.
More information on Joan Ostrove can be found at her personal website.
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