Carol Lynn Martin

Carol Lynn Martin, PhD
Professor
T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University

Dr. Carol Lynn Martin is Cowden Distinguished Professor in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University. She has strong expertise related to gender development, gender segregation and integration, and peer influence and relationships, and wrote an influential theory of gender development. She has written (with Dr. Diane Ruble) two chapters outlining the state of the science of gender development for the Handbook of Child Psychology. She was an Associate Editor for Developmental Psychology and has served on editorial boards of several journals. In the past 15 years or so, her work has turned toward the study of gender in peer relationships and academics. She has published more than 100 papers, with publications appearing in top-tier journals (Science, Psychological Bulletin, Annual Review of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). Her work has been funded by NICHD, NSF, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and the T. Denny Sanford Foundation. Dr. Martin also has expertise in the translation of scientific findings related to peer relationships and classroom functioning to schools. Dr. Martin also co-organizes (with Dr. Campbell Leaper, UC-Santa Cruz) the Gender Development Research Conference in which scholars from all over the world present the latest gender-related research. She is a co-creator of the Sanford Harmony Program.