Roderick Watts, Ph.D.
Roderick Watts is a community psychologist and a licensed clinical psychologist at Georgia State University, where he is an associate professor and jointly appointed in these two areas. He began his college education at Fisk University in Nashville and completed his Bachelors degree at Oberlin College in Ohio. Watts received his Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College. He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association and the Division of Community Psychology. As a practitioner, he has served as a program development and evaluation consultant to governmental organizations, schools, foundations, research and public-policy organizations, universities, and other nonprofit organizations on a variety of projects.
His action and research interests include sociopolitical development and activism, manhood development, human diversity, and qualitative research methodology. Watts has also held positions at DePaul University, The Consultation Center of the School of Medicine at Yale University, and the Institute for Urban Affairs and Research at Howard University. He has co-edited two books: Human Diversity, Perspectives on People in Context and Manhood Development in Urban African American Communities, and a special section on the Psychology of Liberation: Responses to Oppression. |
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