University Field Service

Denise Williams, Ph.D.

Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, & Peacebuilding, CSUDH, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA 90747

Phone 310-***-**** **********@*****.***

SELECTED EDUCATION

University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology, Ph.D. (1994), Dissertation: Never again will our differences convert us into enemies: An interactionist perspective on coalition negotiations in Chile.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,

Department of Sociology, M.A. (1992), thesis: Interstate conflict, mediation, and settlement.

University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology, B.A. with distinction (1986),

Global Peace and Security certificate (1986).

SELECTED EMPLOYMENT

Assistant Professor 1994-2000, and Coordinator, Behavioral Science Graduate Program, California State University Dominguez Hills, 2000-2001 (2001 leave during children’s hospitalization), continued as faculty to present in what is now the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Program, M.A. & B.A. Programs, CSUDH.

Director, Dispute Resolution Center, California State University at Dominguez Hills, January 1996-2000.

Counselor, American Field Service, New York, summer 1987.

SELECTED OF COURSES TAUGHT AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL

Campus & distance learning: Intercultural conflict resolution, Research design and interpretation, International conflict resolution and peacebuilding, Mediation (in English and Spanish). Campus only: Applied behavioral science research, Organizational administration.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Mediators need to understand how their techniques actually work. Peace and Conflict. Journal of Peace Psychology. 7:1:93-94. 2001.

Forging a successful political coalition in Chile. Pp. 115-140 in Kian M. Kwan, editor, Individuality and social control: Essays in Honor of Tamotsu Shibutani. Greenwich, CT: JAI. 1996.

Reframing reality in mediation (video). With Sara Cobb. Southern California Mediation Association. 1995.

Ecopolis of Peace: Staraya Ladoga, U.S.S.R. in Conflict Resolution Notes. 7:3:32-33. 1989.

SELECTED ELECTED AND REPRESENTATIVE POSITIONS

Chair and committee member of College of Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee (1994-1998, 2005-2006), member of University Curriculum Committee and Academic Senate (1994-2001, 2006-2007) at CSU Dominguez Hills.

SAMPLES OF GRANTS, AWARDS, AND CONTRACTS

Wrote or coauthored funded grants and contracts totaling more than $1 million to date.

California Lambda of Phi Beta Kappa, 1986.

LANGUAGES Spanish with the American Field Service in Chile, Russian with the American Institute of Foreign Study in the former USSR, and French with the Experiment in International Living in a family homestay in Switzerland.

REFERENCES

Leanor Ellias, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Spanish, Modern Languages, Westmont College, 955

La Paz Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108, 805-***-****.

John Foran, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of

California, Santa Barbara, 93106-9430, 805-***-****.

Louis Kriesberg, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Program on the Analysis and Resolution

of Conflict, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090, 315-***-****.

Lisa Gray Schellberg, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, California State University

Dominguez Hills, 1000 E. Victoria St., Carson, CA 90747, 310-***-****.

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