Sep 18, 2007 Horne Receives APA Award  Writer: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mdchilds@uga.edu Contact: Andy Horne, 706/542-4107, ahorne@uga.edu Sharon Horne (Ph.D. ’98), an associate professor of counseling psychology at the University of Memphis, received the Denmark-Reuder Award for International Gender Research from the Division of International Psychology at the 115th annual conference of the American Psychological Association last month. Horne, the daughter of UGA Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus Andy Horne, received the award for her work to shed light on cross-cultural factors that affect women and in furthering the condition of women across borders. Horne began working to combat domestic abuse in Russia in 1992. From 1995-97 she was a consultant to sexual assault centers in Russia that developed into the Russian Association of Crisis Centers. As part of that project, she collected data that exposed the high rate of domestic violence in Russia. She has also helped train professionals treating domestic violence and sexual assault in Hungary, Uzbekistan and Romania. For the past two years, she has been an Open Society George Soros Foundation Fellow in Kyrgyzstan, where she has helped build academic infrastructure and conducted research on domestic violence and gender attitudes. |