Psychjourney Podcast

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Sharon Lamb and Dr. Mark Tappan, co-authors of Packaging Boyhood: saving our sons from superheroes, slackers, and other media stereotypes with Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown published by St. Martin's Press.

Dr. Sharon Lamb is Distinguished Professor of Mental Health at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology. She is on leave from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont where she is a Professor of Psychology.  Originally from the Chicago area, she received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her child psychology training at Mass. General Hospital in Boston. Sharon co-authored Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes with Lyn in 2006 and is thrilled to be able to continue working with Lyn and her partner Mark on Packaging Boyhood.  Sharon is author of The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do, and Sex, Therapy, and Kids: Addressing their Concerns through Talk and Play (a book for psychotherapists). 

Dr. Mark Tappan is Professor of Education and Human Development and Chair of the Education Program at Colby College.  He received his A.B. in Religion from Oberlin College, his M.A. in Education from the Ohio State University, and his Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University.  He is co-editor (with Martin Packer) of Narrative and Storytelling: Implications for Understanding Moral Development and Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development.

Mark grew up in suburban Philadelphia but he now lives in Waterville, Maine with his partner Lyn Brown, their daughter Maya, their dog Heidi, and four cats. At Colby he teaches courses on education and social justice, contemporary children and youth, and boys development and education. Students in his “Boys to Men” course also work with local elementary and middle-school boys on media literacy and leadership development. Visit their website.

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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jennifer Scanlon, author of Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown published by Oxford University Press.

Jennifer Scanlon, PhD, is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College. An award-winning teacher and scholar, she has published widely on consumer culture, popular culture, and women's history. She is the author of Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture; and editor of Significant Contemporary American Feminists and The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader. She lives in Brunswick, Maine. Visit her webpage.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., co-author of Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes by Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., and Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., published by St. Martin's Griffin.

Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., is a mom, professor, and community activist. Her acclaimed work on girls social and psychological development has consistently broken new ground and challenged old perceptions. 

 She is the co-author, with Carol Gilligan, of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development, a 1992 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that helped spark an international debate about the lives of girls and redefine our understanding of female development.  Dr. Brown has written three other acclaimed books on girls� social and psychological development: Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger, Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls, and most recently Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers Schemes (with Sharon Lamb; 2006 winner of a MS Books For A Better Life Award.

Dr. Brown received her doctorate from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology. She is Professor of Education and Human Development at Colby College in Maine and co-creator of the nonprofit Hardy Girls Healthy Women  She has also consulted for numerous film and television projects, including shows on PBS, and Fox Childrens Network. 

Dr. Brown lives in Waterville, Maine with her partner Dr. Mark Tappan and their twelve-year-old daughter, Maya. Visit her website.

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. James Baughman, author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961 published by the John Hopkins University Press.

 

James L. Baughman became Director of the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of  Wisconsin-Madison in 2003. An Ohio native, he earned his B.A.at Harvard, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. While earning his doctorate, Baughman worked for Facts on File, the Kirkus News Service and WNET-TV.

Baughman has been a member of the UW faculty since 1979,teaching the history of mass communication and news and editorial writing. He has also been a lecturer in the History Department. Baughman was awarded the UW's Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003 for his efforts in the classroom and the Wisconsin Alumni Association's Ken and Linda Ciriacks Alumni Outreach Excellence Award in 2005.

Baughman has written extensively on the history of the American news media and broadcasting. He is the author of three books, Television's Guardians: The Federal Communications Commission and the Politics of Programming; Henry R. Luce and the Rise of the Modern American News Media; and Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Broadcasting, and Filmmaking in America since 1945. He has recently published a book on the rise of television during the 1950s (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

Baughman was a member and chair of the Wisconsin Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and was chair of the Erik Barnouw Award Committee of the Organization of American Historians, which honors outstanding historical documentaries.