Virginia Andreoli Mathie

Virginia A. Andreoli Mathie is a psychologist known for promoting active learning in undergraduate education and her work building psychology partnerships with outside organizations. From 2004 to 2008, she served as the first executive director of Psi Chi International Honors Society in Psychology.

Awards

Mathie chaired their APA Psychology Partnership Project, which aimed to better prepare students for a changing world by developing partnerships between psychology teachers across educational levels. She was honored for her service in 2004 with an APA Presidential Citation from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Mathie also received the 2002 APA Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training. Her award citation stated, "Her leadership inspires educators to recognize the possible, go after the improbable, and achieve the impossible."

Biography

Mathie grew up in Toronto, Ontario. She studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo and received her B.A./BMath in 1971. As a faculty member, Mathie was a strong proponent of expanding scholarship in psychology to include teaching and learning as well as service and administration.

Representative publications

Kahn, A. S., Mathie, V. A., & Torgler, C. (1994). Rape scripts and rape acknowledgment. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 18(1), 53–66. Mathie, V. A., Buskist, W., Carlson, J. F., Davis, S. F., Johnson, D. E., & Smith, R. A. (2004). Expanding the boundaries of scholarship in psychology through teaching, research, service, and administration. Teaching of Psychology, 31(4), 233–241. Mathie, V. A. (2002). Building academic partnerships in psychology: the Psychology Partnerships Project. American Psychologist, 57(11), 915–926.