ISPP Nominees 2007
Candidate for Governing Council
Linda Valenty Shepherd
Linda Valenty Shepherd is
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Cal
Poly, San Luis Obispo, where she currently serves as founding
Director of the Master of Public Policy Program and was the creator
and first Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research.
She also served as a founding member of the task force to develop
the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State
University and was that Institute’s first Academic Director
(2000-2002).
She has been an active participant in
international organizations including the International Society of
Political Psychology and the International Political Science
Association (IPSA). She was recently elected chair of IPSA’s
Psycho-Politics Research Committee for a three-year term of office
(2006-2009), previously serving as Vice-Chair (2003-2006), Secretary
(2000-2003), and Executive Board Member (2000-current).
Dr. Shepherd holds degrees from UCLA
and UC Davis. She has authored and co-authored several journal
articles and book chapters on the subjects of political psychology,
political behavior, public policy, and research methods. She has
also edited and co-edited several books including Profiling
Political Leaders: Cross-cultural Studies of Personality and
Behavior (with Ofer Feldman; Praeger, 2002), Political
Leadership for the New Century (with Ofer Feldman; Praeger,
2003), and the World of Political Science Development of the
Discipline Series’ volume on Political Psychology entitled
Political Psychology (2006). She is the recipient of multiple
research grants and has presented her research at numerous national
and international scholarly meetings, including the 2005 NATO
Advanced Research Workshop on Social and Psychological Factors in
the Genesis of Terrorism. She specializes in teaching research
methodology from interdisciplinary perspectives.
She
has been an actively involved member of International Society of
Political Psychology since 1995. As an active member, she has
presented research annually, organized panels, and served as
discussant and/or chair for multiple panels. In 2006, she served as
Section Head of the Social Theory and Political Psychology Section
for the ISPP meeting in Barcelona. She has also edited three volumes
thus far that have organized and presented worldwide research on
political psychology, research methods in political psychology, and
research design in political psychology. She is currently working on
a fourth edited volume which will provide interdisciplinary research
on the psychology of political violence in the twenty-first century.
"If
elected to the Governing Council I will, through my work in ISPP and
my leadership in the International Political Science Association’s
Psycho-Politics Research Committee, encourage collaborative efforts
to expand and sustain dynamic international influences within the
field of political psychology. Specifically, I will assist the ISPP
in encouraging and facilitating increases in worldwide membership,
promoting and building additional funding opportunities for travel
and participation at ISPP conferences, and working towards increased
international representation in ISPP publications – including our
journal as well as edited volumes. In addition, I believe that it is
important to enhance the visibility of political psychology in
national as well as international media and will work to achieve
this objective."
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