Ellen Cole, Ph.D.

Dr. Cole is Professor of Psychology at Alaska Pacific University where she’s been a member of the faculty since 1995. Prior to that she held various academic positions at Prescott College, in Arizona, and Goddard College, in Vermont. Dr. Cole is an Alaska licensed psychologist and is certified as a sex therapist by the American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, she has been an active member of APA for many years, most recently serving as chair of APA’s Committee on Women in Psychology and Nominations and Elections chair for Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women. With Dr. Linda Webber, she has co-chaired AK-PA’s Ethics Committee since 1997.

For 12 years Dr. Cole co-edited the journal Women and Therapy and the Haworth Press book program, “Innovations in Feminist Studies.” She is the recipient of several professional awards, including a Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP), two awards for Jewish scholarship from AWP’s Jewish caucus, and two Faculty Merit Awards for research from Alaska Pacific University. Her most recent writing project is a co-edited book, Featuring Females: Feminist Analyses of Media, scheduled for publication by APA Books in the spring of 2005.

She enjoys hiking, tennis, working out, kayaking, skiing on the APU campus, and reading good and not-so-good fiction, especially mysteries by women. She is also a wife, a Mom of four grown kids, and a grandmother of nine.