• Health psychology and psychology of women
• Women's health
• Menstruation and menopause
• Weight and eating disorders
• Gender roles

Professor Chrisler regularly teaches courses on "Psychology of Women," "Health Psychology," "Psychology of Women's Health," and "Intimate Relationships." She is a strong believer in "writing to learn" and in connecting course concepts to everyday life experiences, popular culture, and items in the news.

Chrisler is internationally known for her research and writing on the psychology of women and gender and women's health issues, particularly on weight, eating behavior, body image, menopause, attitudes toward menstruation, and menstrual cycle-related changes.

She has published seven books and dozens of journal articles and book chapters. Her most recent books are Women over 50: Psychological Perspectives (2007, Springer), and From Menarche to Menopause: The Female Body in Feminist Therapy (2004, Haworth). Other titles include Arming Athena: Career Strategies for Women in Academe, New Directions in Feminist Psychology, Lectures on the Psychology of Women, Variations on a Theme: Diversity and the Psychology of Women, and Charting a New Course for Feminist Psychology. She is currently working on a multi-volume Handbook on Gender Research in Psychology to be published by Springer.

She has won a number of awards for her work, and has been elected to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science in recognition of her many scholarly contributions to the field. She has won the Distinguished Leader Award from APA's Committee on Women in Psychology, the Ann Voda Career Award for outstanding research from the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, the Teacher of the Year Award from the Rhode Island Teachers of Psychology, the Florence L. Denmark National Faculty Advisor Award from Psi Chi (the National Honor Society of Psychology), and a Distinguished Publication Award for her book Lectures on the Psychology of Women and the Christine Ladd-Franklin Award for contributions to feminist psychology from the Association for Women in Psychology.

She has served as President of the Association for Women in Psychology, the Society for the Psychology of Women (APA Division 35), the New England Psychological Association, the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research and the Connecticut State Conference of the American Association of University Professors. She has also served as editor of Sex Roles, an international, interdisciplinary behavioral science journal.

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