Education
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1995
Teaching Interests
Ed teaches a wide variety of courses (e.g., Personality, Child and Adolescent Development, Human Sexuality, The Narrative Self, Adult Development and Aging, Psychology and Culture, Personal Meaning in a Complex World) to a wide range of Marquette students (a Freshman Seminar; a Senior Experience; an Honors' course; two Ph.D. level courses). He loves teaching and it shows. Ed has been awarded 8 teaching grants and has delivered a dozen invited presentations regarding quality teaching. He was selected by students to the Faculty Honor Roll while at Northwestern and received three teaching awards while at Green Bay, including the University of Wisconsin System Teaching Fellow. At Marquette, Ed received the 2003 Excellence in Advising award and the 2008 Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J., Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence.
Research Interests
Trained broadly in Life Span Human Development, Dr. de St. Aubin has several intellectual interests. The one thread that weaves through most of his scholarship concerns the meaning making process. For a brief video, please see this PechaKucha presentation. This is a Japanese-initiated format wherin the speaker has 20 seconds for each of 20 slides. It results in a six minute and forty second synopsis of several years of scholarship.
Specific areas of focus have been:
- GENERATIVITY, an adult desire for symbolic immortality through investments of self into the well-being of future generations.
- PERSONAL IDEOLOGY, one’s value-based beliefs about how life should be lived and of what forces impact human living.
- TRAUMA AND MEANING-MAKING.
- THE LESBIAN SELF as a window into large questions regarding gender, identity, social stigma, and ego maturity.
- NARRATIVE as an aspect of identity and as a research method.
- CRIME DESISTANCE and psychology-based programs designed to prevent criminal behavior.
Other specific interests include psychobiography, integrating quantitative and qualitative research, family dynamics, and the embeddedness of human lives.
Campus Leadership
Dr. de St. Aubin participates in the usual committee work at the departmental, college, and university levels. Four campus leadership positions stand out regarding level of commitment and gratification:
- Director of the University Mentoring Program
- Co-Director of the Introduction to Inquiry Program
- Research Scholar, MANRESA
- Has resulted in 3 (a 4th is in progress) reports based on surveys of Marquette students
- de St. Aubin, E. & Rusch Blahnik, J. (2010). Longitudinal examination of values, vocation, and self. Manresa Project Review, 4 (1).
- de St. Aubin, E. & Rusch Blahnik, J. (2008). Profiles of Student Vocational Discernment. Manresa Project Review, 3 (1).
- de St. Aubin, E. & Chapleau, K. (2006). Empirical portraits of the Marquette student. Manresa Project Review, 2 (1).
- de St. Aubin, E. & Rusch Blahnik, J. (2010). Longitudinal examination of values, vocation, and self. Manresa Project Review, 4 (1).
- Faculty Advisor for the Student Organization – Gay Straight Alliance
Student Collaborators
Graduate Student Collaborators:
Current:
Sharon Shatil Henrie
Yulius Sunardi
Abbey Valvano
Mara Bach
Dane Whicker
Jiannan (Jay) Zhang
Former:
Dissertations Chaired :
Kim Skerven (graduated 5/06)
Peter Graskamp (5/06)
Kizzie Walker
Rosalva Orozco
Cathy Coppolillo (12/06)
Gregory Simons (12/7)
Jodi Rusch (12/7)
Terri deRoon-Cassini (12/8)
Colleen Heinkel (5/09)
Beth Shaw (5/09)
Valerie Lucas Wright (12/19/10)
Undergraduate Student Research Team Members:
Current:
Emily Urban
Angelina Ciccantelli
Lauren Caron
Meredith Kalies
Reem Youkhana
Julie Conrad
Liz Stone
Kasandra Scott
Sam Huschen
Stacia Landon (1c)
Rachael Wandrey
Danielle MacKenna
Selected Publications
de St. Aubin, E. (forthcoming - 2011). Generativity and the Meaningful Life. In Joshua Hicks and Clay Routledge (Eds.) The Experience of Meaning in Life: Perspectives from the Psychological Sciences. Springer.
de St. Aubin, E. and Shatil, S. (2009). Reclaiming science: Evidence and truth in the age of persuasion. A review of Helen Guldberg, Reclaiming childhood: Freedom and play in the age of fear (2009, Rutledge) PsycCRITIQUES, 54(4).
deRoon-Cassini, T., de St. Aubin, E. Valvano, A., Hastings, J., and Horn, P. (2009). Psychological well-being after spinal cord injury: Perception of loss and meaning making. Rehabilitation Psychology, 54(3), 306-314.
de St. Aubin, E., & Skerven, K. (2008). Homonegativity and the Lesbian Self: Portraits of the Ego as Either Transcender or Occluder of Negative Social Stereotypes. In H. Wayment and J. Bauer (Eds., Transcending self-Interst: Psychological explorations of the quiet ego (pages 211-220). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press
de St. Aubin, E. & Shaw, B. (2007). Minority sexualities and communication not common in everyday life [Review of the book Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader]. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (37).
de St. Aubin, E., Rusch Blahnik, J. & Lucas, V. (2007). Ways of Thinking about Thinking Styles [Review of The Nature of Intellectual Styles]. PsychCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (8).
Skerven, K., & de St. Aubin, E. (2006). Lesbian Self Development in Context: Cohort Analysis at Two Points in History. Research in Human Development, 3(4), 251-269.
de St. Aubin, E. Wandrei, M., Skerven, K., & Coppolillo, C. (2006). A Narrative Exploration of Personal Ideology and Identity. In D.P. McAdams, R. Josselson, and A. Lieblich (Eds.) Identity and story: Creating self in narrative (pages 223-248). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.
de St. Aubin, E., Baer, S., & Ravanelli Miller, J. (2006). Elders and end-of-life medical decisions: Legal context, psychological issues, and recommendations to attorneys serving seniors. Marquette Elder’s Advisor, 7 (2), 359-291.
de St. Aubin, E. (2006). Some Psychologists still study whole lives: Imagine that! A review of the Handbook of Psychobiography, Edited by William Todd Schultz (2005, Oxford University Press). PsycCritiques, 51 (22).
de St. Aubin, E. & Skerven, K. (2003). A Banquet of Benevolence: A review of Caring and Doing for Others: Social Responsibility in the Domains of Family, Work and Community (Alice S. Rossi [Ed.]; University of Chicago Press; 2001). Contemporary Psychology, 48 (6).
de St. Aubin, E., & Baer, S. (2003). Applied Narrative Psychology: A review of Telling the stories of life through guided autobiography groups (J. Birren and K. Cochran; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). Canadian Journal on Aging, 22 (3), 331-332.
de St. Aubin, E., McAdams, D.P., & Kim. T.C. (Eds.) (2003). The generative society: Caring for future generations. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
de St. Aubin, E. (2003). The propagation of genes and memes: Generativity through culture in Japan and the USA. In E. de St. Aubin, D.P. McAdams, & T.C. Kim (Eds.) The generative society: Caring for future generations (pages 63-82). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
de St. Aubin, E. (2001). Using the reality of myth to reduce recidivism. Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the Why of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society, 8 (2), 82-85.
de St. Aubin, E. (2001). Frank Lloyd Wright’s personal ideology expressed in his architecture . Clio’s Psyche: Understanding the Why of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society, 8 (3), 136-138.
de St. Aubin, E. (2001). Listening to the Grown-Ups: A review of A History of Geropsychology in Autobiography (Edited by James E. Birren and Johannes J.F. Schroots; 2000, APA Press) , Canadian Journal on Aging, 20(4), 599-602.
de St. Aubin, E. (1999). Personal ideology: The intersection of personality and religious beliefs. Journal of Personality, 67(6), 1105-1139.
McAdams, D.P., & de St. Aubin, E. (Eds.) (1998). Generativity and adult development: How and why we care for the next generation. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
de St. Aubin, E. (1998). Truth against the world: A psychobiographic exploration of generativity in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright. In D. McAdams & E. de St. Aubin (Eds.) Generativity and adult development: How and why we care for the next generation (pages 391-427). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
de St. Aubin, E. (1998). Exploring lives of Commitment – a review of “Common fire: Lives of commitment in a complex world” (Authors: Laurent A. Parks Daloz, Cheryl H. Keen, James P. Keen, Sharon Daloz Parks) Contemporary Psychology, 43 (1), 58-59
de St. Aubin, E. (1997). The joy and shame of intellectual probate – a review of “Exploring affect: The selected writings of Silvan S. Tomkins” (edited by Virginia Demos). Contemporary Psychology, 42 (1), 76-77.
McAdams, D.P., Diamond, A., de St. Aubin, E., & Mansfield, E. (1997). Stories of commitment: The psychosocial construction of generative lives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 678-694.
de St. Aubin, E. (1996). Personal ideology polarity: Its emotional foundation and its manifestation in individual value systems, religiosity, political orientation, and assumptions concerning human nature. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71, 152-165.
de St. Aubin, E., & McAdams, D.P. (1995). The relations of generative concern and generative action to personality traits, satisfaction/happiness with life and ego development. Journal of Adult Development, 2, 99-112.
McAdams, D.P., de St. Aubin, E., & Logan, R. (1993). Generativity among young, midlife, and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 8, 221-230.
McAdams, D. P., & de St. Aubin, E. (1992). A theory of generativity and its assessment through self-report, behavioral acts, and narrative themes in autobiography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 62, 1003-1015.
