Bertha Holliday

Bertha Garrett Holliday is a community psychologist known for her expertise on ethnic minority issues.[1] Her work has focused on processes of child and family socialization[2] and the academic experiences and achievement of Black youth. Holliday was Senior Director of the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she led APA's efforts to increase scientific understanding of role of culture and ethnicity in human relationships and behavior.[3] She retired from the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs in 2010 after 16 years of service to the APA.[4]

Bertha Holliday
Occupation(s)Community Psychologist and Activist
Awards
  • APA Division 45 Distinguished Career Contribution to Service Award (2001)
  • Teachers College, Columbia University: Social Justice Action Award (2011)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago; Harvard University; University of Texas at Austin
Academic work
InstitutionsAmerican Psychological Association

Holliday is a Fellow of APA Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity & Race).[5] In 2001, she received the Distinguished Career Contribution to Service Award from APA Division 45.[6] In 2011, she was awarded the Social Justice Action Award from Teachers College, Columbia University.[7]

Biography

Holliday was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. As a member of a family that was continuously involved in social justice and civic engagement efforts, Holliday reported that she walked her first picket line at age 4, protesting the unacceptable conditions of her overcrowded, segregated kindergarten.[8] 

Holliday completed a BA in psychology at the University of Chicago and an EdM in Counselor Education at Harvard University,[7] and then obtained a PhD in Community Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] She subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Lifespan Development and Ecological Psychology at Cornell University from 1982 to 1919??.[7] Prior to joining the APA Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Holliday was on the faculty of the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.[9] Among her widely cited papers are several historical reports of early studies on Black youth that were conducted by the American Council on Education in the 1930–1940s.[10][11]

Since retiring from the APA, Holliday has been involved in the leadership of the Bloomingdale Civic Association in Washington, DC.[8]

References
  1. Leong, Frederick T. L.; Holliday, Bertha Garrett; Trimble, Joseph E.; Padilla, Amado M.; McCubbin, Laurie Dawn (2012-09-26), Weiner, Irving (ed.), "Ethnic Minority Psychology", Handbook of Psychology, Second Edition, Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. hop201026, doi:10.1002/9781118133880.hop201026, ISBN 978-0-470-61904-9, retrieved 2020-11-29
  2. Bernal, Guillermo., Trimble, Joseph E., Burlew, Ann Kathleen, & Leong, Frederick T. (2003). Handbook of racial & ethnic minority psychology. Sage Publications. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. ISBN 1-4129-7600-6. OCLC 431996210.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Four Questions for Bertha Holliday, PhD". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  4. "Communique | July 2012 Welcome and overview". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  5. "Division Fellows – Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race". Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  6. "Distinguished Career Contribution to Service Award, Division 45". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2020-11-29.
  7. "Privileging Indigenous Voices: Hearing the Wisdom of Generations, 3, The Future of Social Justice in Psychology: Recollections and Social-Historical ... | Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company". search.alexanderstreet.com. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  8. "Bertha Holliday for ANC 5E07". Bertha Holliday for ANC 5E07. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  9. Holliday, Bertha Garrett (1985). "Differential Effects of Children's Self-Perceptions and Teachers' Perceptions on Black Children's Academic Achievement". The Journal of Negro Education. 54 (1): 71–81. doi:10.2307/2294901. JSTOR 2294901.
  10. Holliday, B. G. (1989). Trailblazers in Black adolescent research: The American Council on Education's studies on Negro youth personality development. In R. L. Jones (Ed.), Black adolescents (p. 29–48). Cobb & Henry Publishers.
  11. Holliday, B. G. (1999). The American Council on Education's studies on Negro youth development: An historical note with lessons on research, context, and social policy. In R. L. Jones (Ed.), African American children, youth and parenting (pp. 3-30). Cobb & Henry.
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