Edison Trickett, Ph.D.
Dr. Trickett is currently Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Community and Prevention Research Division in the Psychology Department at UIC. Here received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Ohio State University, was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, and held faculty positions at Yale University and the University of Maryland before joining the faculty at UIC in August, 2000.
Through out his career, his research has focused on the development of an ecological perspective within his field of community psychology for conducting community research and intervention. Central to this perspective are the importance of understanding the history and dynamics of community life and the importance of conducting community research in the spirit of collaborative inquiry. His empirical work has focused on how to assess the social environments of public schools and their effects on adolescent development. In the past 15 years the emphasis has been on the role of the schools in the acculturation and adaptation of immigrant and refugee adolescents and families. He has, in addition, served as consultant and/or evaluator of a number of programs in the Chicago Public Schools designed to aid in the school adaptation of immigrant and refugee adolescents recently arrived in the Chicago area. He has published over 100 books, book chapters, and scholarly papers describing this work, the most recent of which is an edited volume on an ecological perspective on HIV/AIDS interventions in urban contexts, published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. He has, in addition, been consistently active in the Society for Community research and Action (Division 27) of the American Psychological Association. He has served as President of this Division, been a recipient of its award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology, and has served as Editor of that field's primary journal, the American Journal of Community Psychology. In addition, he has been invited to present his work nationally and internationally, including conferences in Israel, Japan, Australia, and France. He recently became part of an international interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Calgary to study complex community interventions involving community health. |
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