Desdamona Rios

CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology and Gender and Women's Studies

Spring 2012

  • Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (GWS 101B)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Gender and Women's Studies (GWS 291)

Contact Information

drios@bowdoin.edu
(207) 798-4342
Psychology
GENDER WOMENS STUDIES PROGRAM
202 Boody-Johnson House

Desdamona Rios

Education

Ph.D., Personality & Social Contexts and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010
B.A., Psychology, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, 2004

Research Interests

Diversity in higher education; socialization in academic settings; the influence of curricular content on gender and racial identity; feminist pedagogy; psychology of invisibility

Publications

Rios, D., Stewart, A.J., & Winter, D.G.(in press). “Thinking she could be the next president”: Why identifying with the curriculum matters. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Shapiro, D., Rios, D. & Stewart, A.J.(in press). Conceptualizing lesbian sexual identity development: Narrative accounts of socializing structures and individual choices. Psychology and Feminism.

Manuscripts Under Review/In Preparation

Cole, E.R., Case, K.A., Rios, D., & Curtin, N.(under review). Understanding what students bring to the classroom: Moderators of the effects of diversity themed courses on students’ attitudes.

Rios, D. & Stewart, A.J. (in preparation). Fitting In and Going With the Flow: Motives for Graduate Study and Completion of the Doctorate.

Rios, D. & Stewart, A.J.(in preparation). Race and Gender in Science and Engineering Fields: The Experiences of Faculty Outsiders-Within.

Rios, D. (in preparation). What the Global Feminisms Project can teach us about psychology of women: Absence, identity, and power.

Selected Scholarly Papers and Presentations

Rios, D. (July 2010). Women, Power and Leadership: Using the Global Feminisms Project to Teach About All Leaders. Paper presented as part of a symposium, “Global Feminisms: Comparative Study of Activists in Research and Teaching” at the International Society of Political Psychology, San Francisco, CA.

Rios, D. (June 2008). Curricular Interventions and Shifts in Political Attitudes About Women Leaders. Paper presented as part of a symposium, “Beyond the Gender Gap: Gender and Political Attitudes” at the Society for the Psychology Study of Social Issues Conference, Chicago, IL.

Rios, D. (June 2008). Exploring Women’s Leadership With the Global Feminisms Project. Paper presented as a part of a symposium, “Global Feminisms: Comparative Case Studies of Women Scholars-Activists” at the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference, Chicago, IL.

Rios, D. (November 2006). The Global Feminisms: Complicating Psychological Theory. Paper presented as a part of a symposium, “Locating Resistance: the Global Feminisms Project and Women’s Studies in Other Disciplines” at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Oakland, CA.