McKay, Susan 1942–

PERSONAL: Born 1942. Education: DePauw University, B.S., 1964; University of Colorado, M.S., 1965; University of Wyoming, Ph.D., 1978.

ADDRESSES: Office—Women's Studies Program, University of Wyoming, Ross Hall 422, Dept. 4297, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071.

CAREER: Nurse, psychologist, and educator. University of Wyoming, Laramie, professor of women's studies and nursing.

MEMBER: American Psychological Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: W.K. Kellogg National fellow, 1983–86; Rockefeller Foundation scholar in residence, Bellagio, Italy, 1996; International Federation of University Women Peace Research Fellowship, Geneva, Switzerland, 1999; American Psychological Association fellow, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Assertive Childbirth: The Future Parents' Guide to a Positive Pregnancy, foreword by Charles Mahan, illustrated by Susan Duvall, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1983.

(With Celeste R. Phillips) Family-Centered Maternity Care: Implementation Strategies, Aspen Systems (Rockville, MD), 1984.

(With Dyan E. Mazurana) Women and Peacebuilding, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Montreal, Canada), 1999.

(With Dyan E. Mazurana) Raising Women's Voices for Peacebuilding: Vision, Impact, and Limitations of Media Technologies, Women, Ink (New York, NY), 2001.

The Courage Our Stories Tell: The Daily Lives and Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese American Women at Heart Mountain, Western History Publications (Powell, WY), 2002.

(With Dyan E. Mazurana) Where Are the Girls?: Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives during and after the War, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Montreal, Canada), 2004.

SIDELIGHTS: Susan McKay has nearly two decades of experience researching topics related to women in peacebuilding and armed conflict. McKay's Women and Peacebuilding was published in 2001 and written with Dyan E. Mazurana. The book examines how women from around the world work towards resolving conflict. Diana D'Souza, writing in the Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution, praised the book's "solid contribution to conflict and peace studies." She stated: "For readers thirsty for solid information on women's peacebuilding, the material is gratifying."

McKay's 2004 publication, Where Are the Girls?: Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives during and after the War, was also written with Mazurana. In this book, the pair analyze women or girls engaged in armed conflict in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique. Shadia Abdel Rahim Mohammed, reviewing the book in the Ahfad Journal, found that the book is "written in a good and clear style" and "raises the awareness of people."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Ahfad Journal, June, 2004, Shadia Abdel Rahim Mohammed, review of Where Are the Girls?: Girls in Fighting Forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique: Their Lives during and after the War, p. 77.

ONLINE

International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development Web site, http://www.ichrdd.ca/ (February 24, 2006), author profile.

Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution Web site, http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/ (February 24, 2006), Diane D'Souza, review of Women and Peacebuilding.

University of Wyoming Web site, http://www.uwyo.edu/ (February 24, 2006), author profile.