Ellyn Kaschak

Ellyn Kaschak (born June 23, 1943), was an American clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University. She was one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which she has practiced and taught since 1972. Her many publications, including Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience (Kaschak, 1993), and Sight Unseen: Gender and Race through Blind Eyes (Kaschak, 2015), have helped define the field. for twenty years.

Education

Ellyn Kaschak was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Harpur College of the State University of New York with a B.A. in Russian language and literature (1965).

Career

Kaschak has been Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University since 1974 and is currently Professor Emerita. At San Jose State University, she has served as Chairperson of the graduate program in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling and Director of the university's Family Counseling Service. at SUNY at Binghamton.

She has served as the Chair of the Feminist Therapy Institute, the Committee on Women in Psychology and the Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity of the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a Fellow of Division 35 (the Psychology of Women), Division 12 (Clinical Psychology), Division 44 (Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues), Division 45 (Ethnic Minority Issues), and Division 52 (International Psychology) of the APA.

Awards Distinguished Career Award of the Association for Women in Psychology (2019), and the Feminist Therapy Institute Award for Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Psychology.

Select works Books

Kaschak, E. (2015), Sight Unseen: Gender and Race through Blind Eyes. Columbia University Press, New York.