Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Indiana University, 1997
• M.A., Clinical Psychology, Radford University, 1993
• B.S., Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1991

Key Professional Appointments

• Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007--
• Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2007
• Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Counseling Psychology Division, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2004

Activities & Honors

• Incoming Vice President, AERA Division E, 2010-2013
• Fellow Status, American Psychological Association Division 17 (Society of, Society of Counseling Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2005- present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005- present
• University Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2008
• Secretary, Division E, American Educational Research Association, 2005-2007
• University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Off-Campus Teaching, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005
• Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) Fritz Linn & Kuder Early Scientist/Practitioner Career Award, American Psychological Association, 2004
• R. Stewart Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, Unknown, 2001-2002
• Teacher of the Year, Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society, College of Education, 2001
• Distinguished Teaching Award, Delta Sigma Omicron, College of Education, 2000
• R. Stewart Jones Award for Outstanding Teacher in Educational Psychology, College of Education, 1998-1999
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2001
• Paul Munger Award - Outstanding Graduate Student, Indiana University, 1996

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models, Centers for Disease Control, 2007
• Principal Investigator, Bullying as a Peer Group Process During Early Adolescence, Campus Research Board, 1999
• Fellow, Faculty Fellow, Bureau of Educational Research, 1999
• Principal Investigator, Arnold O. Beckman Award, Campus Research Board, 1998

Selected Publications

• Espelage, D.L., & Poteat, V.P.  (2012).  School-based prevention of peer relationship problems:  Bullying, relational aggression, and prejudice.  In Betsy Altmaier & Jo-Ida Hansen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Counseling Psychology.  New York:  Oxford University Press.    
• Espelage, D.L., & Poteat, V.P. (in press). Counseling psychologists in schools.  In Fouad, N., Carter, J., & Subich, L. (Eds.), Handbook of Counseling Psychology. Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.  
• Espelage, D., & Low, S.M. (in press). Prevention of bullying, dating violence, & sexual violence among children and adolescents. In E.M. Vera, (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Prevention in Counseling Psychology. New York:  Oxford University Press.  
• Espelage, D. L., & Swearer, S. M. (2010). Bullying and peer harassment. In H. Walker, M. Shinn, & G. Stoner (Eds.), Interventions for achievement and behavior in a three-tier model including RTI. New York: Springer Publishing.
• Espelage, D. L., & Swearer, S. M. (2010). A social-ecological model for bullying prevention and intervention: Understanding the impact of adult communities children live in. In S. R. Jimerson, S. M. Swearer, & D. L. Espelage (Eds.), The handbook of bullying in schools: An international perspective (pp. 61-72). New York: Routledge.