Bill Flack, Ph.D.

Co-Chair and Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University

Visiting Professor (Honorary), Faculty of Life & Health Sciences, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Dr. Flack trained as a clinical psychologist and have focused increasingly on critical and community psychologies. His research is aimed at understanding and eliminating sources of psychological trauma, especially campus sexual assault and other forms of gender-based violence. His teaching and research are aimed at helping students to understand the shortcomings of current psychological knowledge in order to improve it toward more socially just ends.

Dr. Flack's recent publications include:

Swartout, K. M., Flack, W. F., Cook, S. L., Olson, L. N., Smith, P. H., & White, J. W. (2019). Measuring campus sexual misconduct and its context: The Administrator-Researcher Campus Climate Consortium (ARC3) survey [published correction appears in Psychol Trauma. 2019 Oct;11(7):801]. Psychol Trauma,11(5), 495-504. DOI: 10.1037/tra0000395
Swartout, K. M., & Flack Jr., W. F. (2019). Campus sexual assault. In W. S. DeKeseredy, C. M, Rennison, & A. K. Hall-Sanchez (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of violence studies (pp. 286-295). Routledge.