Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill

Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill is an American academic. She is a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University (BYU). From 1994-2010, she was the director of the BYU Women's Research Institute.

Early life and education

The daughter of Ariel S. Ballif and Artemesia Romney, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah and has a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. both from BYU.

Career

From 1966-1968, she was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. From 1968-1993 she was on the faculty of Fordham University. While there she was chair of the Division of Psychology and Educational Services. In 1994 she joined the BYU faculty as a professor of psychology and head of the Women's Research Institute.

Ballif-Spanvill is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Ballif-Spanvill's most cited work is "Preventing violence and teaching peace: A review of promising and effective antiviolence, conflict-resolution, and peace programs for elementary school children" which was co-authored with Claudia J. Clayton and Melanie D. Hunsaker. She was also an author of the article "Terrorist as Group Violence" in the Journal of Threat Assessment in 2003; "The Security of Women and the Security of States" with Valerie M. Hudson, Mary Caprioli, Rose McDermott and Chad F. Emmett published in International Security Vol. 33 issue 3 (Winter 2009). She has written multiple articles for the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and coedited with Marilyn Arnold and Kristen Tracey A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by women published by the University of Iowa Press in 2002.

Personal life

Ballif-Spanvill is married to Robert J. Spanvill.