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Paul B. Pedersen, PhD, is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for 6 years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. He was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University from 1984–1988, and the University of Pittsburgh—Semester at Sea voyage around the world in the spring of 1992. Dr. Pedersen's international experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America, and Europe, and a senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University from 1999–2000. He has authored, coauthored, or edited 45 books, 100 articles, 82 chapters, and 22 monographs on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. He is a fellow in Divisions 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology), 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues), and 52 (International Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). His research activities include: serving as codirector of research for a 10 day intercultural communication laboratory for 60 Japanese and U.S. intercultural communication experts at Nihonmatsu, Japan, funded by the Lily Foundation; reentry research among LASPAU students from Brazil; director of higher education research on sex-role stereotypes in higher education on an HEW grant; director of a 3-year NIMH mental health training program; National Science Foundation 6-year grant to study the reentry adjustment of engineers returning to Taiwan after study abroad; National Institute of Education grant to develop a measure of cross-cultural counseling skill; State of New York Department of Social Services grant to develop mental health training materials on unaccompanied refugee minors; a 2-year Harvard Institute for International Development project in Indonesia to evaluate and upgrade training at Bank Rakyat Training Centers; and an Asian Foundation grant to coorganize a conference in Penang, Malaysia, on constructive conflict management in a cultural context. Dr Pedersen's professional activities have included a 3-year presidency of the 1,800 member Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research (SIETAR); senior editor of Multicultural Aspects of Counseling (MAC) series, SAGE Press; advising editor for Education and for Psychology, Greenwood Press book series; board member of "The Micronesian Institute" headquartered in Washington DC; external examiner for Universiti Putra Malaysia, University Kebangsaan, and Universiti Malaysia Sabah in psychology; senior Fulbright scholar teaching at National Taiwan University from 1999–2000; member of the Committee for International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) at APA from 2001–2003; an invitation to give a master lecture, APA, Los Angeles, CA, in August of 1994; senior fellow at the East West Center from 1975–1976 and 1978–1981; senior fulbright award to teach at National Taiwan University from 1999–2000; and election to the Committee for International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) of the APA. |
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