Biography

Susan McKay, Ph.D. is a psychologist, nurse and Professor of Women's Studies and adjunct professor of International Studies and Nursing at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. For the past 15 years she has taught and researched issues focused upon women, girls, and armed conflict, women and peacebuilding, and feminist issues in peace psychology. She has published over 70 books, book chapters, and articles. Recent books include Where Are the Girls? Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique, Their Lives During and After War (2004), The Courage Our Stories Tell: The Daily Lives and Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese-American Women at Heart Mountain (2002), Raising Women's Voices for Peacebuilding: Vision, Impact, and Limitations of Media Technologies (2001) and Women and Peacebuilding (1999). She is past President of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Recent awards include the Presidential Faculty Achievement Award for Research (2000), designation as a fellow of the American Psychological Association (2002), Extraordinary Merit in Research (2003, 2006), and selection as Seibold Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Wyoming (2003-2004). She is presently working in Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Liberia on issues of girl mothers who return from armed groups with children and in a PAR study of how these girls may draw upon community resources to support their reintegration.