Domestic violence - Distinguished Professor

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Todd K. Shackelford received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2010, he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he is Co-Director of the Evolutionary Psychology Laboratory and Founding Director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychological Science. Shackelford led the founding in 2012 of Ph.D. and M.S. programs in psychology at Oakland University. In 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor by the Oakland University Board of Trustees. Shackelford has published nearly 400 journal articles and 30 scholarly volumes, and his work has been cited over 41,000 times. Much of Shackelford’s research addresses sexual conflict between men and women, with a focus on men’s physical, emotional, and sexual violence against their intimate partners. Since 2006, Shackelford has served as editor of the journal Evolutionary Psychology and in 2014 founded the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science as Editor-in-Chief. Shackelford is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. According to Stanford University, Shackelford is among the top 2% of academic psychologists in terms of impact on the field. He has served as an expert witness for the Supreme Court of British Columbia, for the State of Colorado, and for private firms in the State of Michigan.