Mary M. Brabeck

Mary M. Brabeck, PhD, has served as dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development since 2003. A leader in the field of applied psychology, Dr. Brabeck currently serves in significant posts in professional organizations that include the American Psychological Association's (APA) Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP), the Education Leadership Coalition of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), the APA Board of Directors Standing Hearing Panel of the Ethics Committee, and the Executive Committee for the Council of Academic Deans from Research Education Institutions (CADREI). She was previously a professor of counseling and developmental psychology at Boston College and served as dean of the College's Lynch School of Education from 1996–2003.

Dr. Brabeck has served on boards and councils for organizations that include the National Society for the Study of Education, the Holmes Partnership, and the Carnegie Corporation's Teachers for a New Era Research Review Committee. From 2004–2005, she was chair of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education and from 2005–2007 was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the APA Education Directorate. Dr. Bra-beck is an inaugural fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a fellow of APA, Divisions 7 (Developmental), 17 (Counseling Psychology), 35 (Psychology of Women), and 52 (International Psychology).

Dr. Brabeck's research interests include intellectual and ethical development, evidence based teacher education, values and conceptions of the moral self, human rights education, professional and feminist ethics, and interprofessional collaboration through schools. She has published more than 100 journal articles and book chapters, and her most recent edited works are Practicing Feminist Ethics in Psychology (APA Press) and Meeting at the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being, 102nd Yearbook of the National Society for Study in Education (University of Chicago Press).

Dr. Brabeck's numerous awards and recognitions include a Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Joseph's University; Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Minnesota; Alumni Award from the University of Minnesota School of Education and Human Development; APA Presidential Citation; and the Kuhmerker Award from the Association for Moral Education; Distinguished Alumni Award from St. Cloud University. She received her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.