Educational Background
• PhD, Social-Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
• MA, Psychology, Hunter College
• BA, Psychology, University of Northern Iowa
Teaching Profession
Courses regularly taught
• Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
• Practicum in Human Development
Courses taught previously
• Introduction to Psychology
• Personality Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Topics in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
• Self-defense
• Goju Karate
Current Research Interests
• Conflict
• Fear of crime
• Feminist and critical psychologies
• Moral communities, inclusion, exclusion, and difference
• Safety and risk
• Social (In)justice
• Gendered violence
Selected Publications
• Lester, N., Bertram, C., Erickson, G., Lee, E., Tchako, A., Wiggins, K.D., & Wilson, J. (2003). Writing across the curriculum: A college portrait. Urban Education, 38(1), 5-34.
• Bertram, C.C. (2001). Enduring impermanence: A neighborhood contra(counter)-versy (against verse). International Journal of Critical Psychology, 4, 123-131.
• Bertram, C.C. (2000). Fitful narratives: The textual consequences of abuse. In M. Fine & L. Weis (Eds.), Caution speed bumps ahead: Reflections on the politics and methods of qualitative work (108-111). New York: Teacher’s College Press.
• Bertram, C., Hall, J., Fine, M., & Weis, L. (2000). Where the girls (and women) are. American Journal of Community Psychology, 28(5), 731-755.
• Fine, M., & Bertram, C. (1999). Sexing the globe. In D. Epstein & J.T. Sears (Eds.), A dangerous knowing: Sexuality, pedagogy and popular culture (pp. 153-163). London: Cassell.
• Weis, L., Fine, M., Proweller, A., Bertram, C., & Marusza, J. (1998). “I've slept in clothes long enough”: Excavating the sounds of domestic violence among women in the white working class. Urban Review, 30(1), 1-27.
Other Professional Activities
• Member of American Psychological Association (Department 9, 35)
• Member of National Women’s Studies Association
• Member of Outreach & Education Committee, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Brooklyn, NY, 1997-2001
• Managing Editor, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993-1995
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Selected Recognitions
• University of Northern Iowa Merchant Scholarship for graduate education,
2000-01 and 1995-96
• Helena Rubinstein Award, The City University of New York Women's Studies
Certificate Program, 1999-2000
• Urban Student Fellowship, The City University of New York Women's Studies Certificate Program, 1996
