Abbie E. Goldberg

Abbie E. Goldberg, Ph.D. is an Affiliated Scholar at the Williams Institute and a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University, where she also serves as Director of Women’s & Gender Studies. Her research examines diverse families, including LGBTQ-parent families and adoptive-parent families. She is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles and four books and is the editor of four books. She is the recipient of many awards and was recently awarded Fellow status by the National Council on Family Relations for her outstanding contributions to family science. She has received research funding from the APA, the NIH, the Spencer Foundation, and other sources. She teaches courses on diversity in contemporary families, research methods with diverse families, human sexuality, the psychology of sexual orientation, gender, and crime, and ethics in clinical psychology.