SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Amber-Belkhir, J., Ampadu, L., BaSuray, J., Beam, R., Carroll, D., Evans, T., Garsombke, D., Gissendanner, C., Griffith, S.,Mangurian, L., Masters, B., Pilardi, J., Pulford, M., Shirley, L., Wheeler, E., & Yarnevich, M. (1996). Multiculturalism and race, gender, class in American higher education textbooks. Race, Gender & Class, 3, 147-174.

Ayers, J., Wheeler, E., Fracasso, M., Galupo, M. P., Rabin, J., & Slater, B. (1999). Reinventing the university through the teaching of diversity. Journal of Adult Development, 6, 163-173.

Belkhir, J., Ampadu, L., Evans, T., Gissendanner, C., Pilardi, J., Wheeler, E., Mangurian, L., Masters, B., Yarnevich, M., Shirley, L., Gissendanner, J., Ries, J., & Vanfossen, B. (1996). Multicultural education and race, gender, and class in the academic disciplines: Analysis of introductory textbooks in psychology, history, philosophy, modern language, literature, and race, gender, and class in mathematics and biology. Multicultural Education, Winter Issue.

Brown, M.F., Wheeler, E. A., & Riley, D.A. (1989). Evidence for a shift in the choice criterion of rats in a twelve arm radial maze. Animal Learning and Behavior, 17, 12-20.

Gomez, L.M., Egan, D.E., Wheeler, E. A., Sharma, D.K., & Gruchacz, A.M. (1983). How interface design determines who has difficulty learning to use a text editor. In Proceedings of CHI'83: Human Factors in Computing Systems (176-181). New York: Association of Computing Machinery.

Wangari, E. Ampadu, L., & Wheeler, E. (Fall, 2001) Planting seeds of activism using women of African descent: A multidisciplinary approach. Making Connections: A Journal for Teachers of Cultural Diversity, 6, No. 1-2, 3-9.

Wheeler, E. (1991). Conditions of flexible coding in a spatially oriented working memory task: Simultaneous, sequential, and cued presentation of stimuli (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1991). Dissertation Abstracts International, 1992, February, Vol. 52 (8-B) 4502.

Wheeler, E. (2002) “And, does it matter if he was racist?”: Deconstructing concepts in psychology. Race, Gender, & Class, 9, No. 4, 33-44.

Wheeler, E. (2002). Centering the views of black women : Activist pedagogy in the psychology classroom Radical Psychology.

Wheeler, E. (2004). Culture, beliefs, physical health and neurocognition. Defining Dimensions of Diversity: Conference Proceedings. Trajkovski, G. (ed). Towson University Tenth Annual Multicultural Conference.

Wheeler, E., Ampadu, L., & Wangari, E. (2002). Lifespan development revisited: African-centered spirituality throughout the life cycle. Journal of Adult Development. 9 (1): 71-78.

Wheeler, E., Ayers, J., Fracasso, M., Galupo, M. P., Rabin, J., & Slater, B. (1999). Intradisciplinary approaches to teaching diversity in the college classroom. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. 10, 79-93.

Wheeler, E., Wangari, E., &Ampadu, L. (1999). Report on a study of race, gender, and class bias in the examination for specialists in poison information. Technical report. American Association of Poison Control Centers.

BOOK CHAPTERS and ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Wheeler, E. (2007). Black feminism, womanism, and standpoint theories. In Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia, edited by B. J. Bank. New York: Greenwood Press. 15-22.

Wheeler, E. (2004). European academies, African academics: "Sistah-scholars" as a model for survival. Building Bridges for Women of Color in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Success. Battle, C. Y. and Doswell, C. M. (eds). University Press of America. 91-97.

Wheeler, E. (2002). Black feminism and womanism. Women in Higher Education: An Encyclopedia. Ana M. Martinez Aleman and Kristen A. Renn (eds.). ABC-CLIO, Inc: CA. 118-120.

BOOK REVIEWS

Wheeler, E. (2001). Animal Smarts [Review of the book Clever as a Fox: Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us About Ourselves]. American Scientist, 89, 379-380.

Wheeler, E. (2000). Verb Brains. [Review of the book Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language]. American Scientist, 88, 180.

Wheeler, E. (1999). Believing is seeing [Review of the book Visual Intelligence]. American Scientist, 87, 375-376.

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

1. (2001). Happy birth and psychological peace: Let a doula help. Natural Alternatives: An Afrikan-Centered Guide for Holistic Living, 5, 25-31.
2. (1999, November). Hurry up, Y2K!. Jubilee, p 18.
3. (1999, February). Prison life is not entertainment. Jubilee, p. 50.
4. (1997, March). Keeping romance alive in your marriage. Jive, p. 34-35.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

1. 2004 – 2005. Bimonthly column on various psychological issues written for a general audience. Baltimore Times.
2. (1998, Dec 15). Students are not the only ones who should keep a journal. Christian Science Monitor, p.13.
3. (1998, November 13). Parenting styles. Baltimore Times, p. 6.
4. (1998, October 2). Obesity and the black woman. Baltimore Times, p. 6.
5. (1998, August 28). Depression: Singing the blues. Baltimore Times, p. 6.
6. (1998, August 4). Getting beyond cramming for exams. Christian Science Monitor, p. B3.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2009      Wheeler, E. & Connors, P. (2009). Telling stories and feeling good: Language use as indication of health and thinking. Poster presented to The First World Congress of Positive Psychology, June 18-21, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

Wheeler, E., Faulkner, M. & Ayers, J. (2009). The effect of companion animals on autonomic responses after exposure to a social threat.  Poster presentation at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

2008   Faulkner, M., Wheeler, E. & Ayers, J. (2008). Do companion animals help control stress?: Physiological findings using a modified Trier Social Stress Test. 79th Annual 

           Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

2007 Ayers, J., Faulkner, M. & Wheeler, E. (2007). Trait anxiety as a predictor of physiological and subjective arousal. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, March 24, 2007.

Wheeler, E. (2007). Is it all in my head?: Finding the physiological effects of racism on black women’s bodies and brains. ITROW Conference on Intersectional Models of Women’s Health: Uniting Theory and Practice. Friday, March 9, 2007 at Towson University.

Wheeler, E. & Brooks, L. (2007). Strategic organizing: Connecting black campus constituencies into a community. Fixing the Academy: Tapping Black Excellence on White Campuses Conference, April 14, 2007 at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab.

2006 Cognitive versus physiological manifestations of test anxiety in a college sample. With colleagues Ayers and Faulkner. 77^th Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association. March 17, 2006. Baltimore, MD.

2004 Wired for faith: Religious beliefs and physical health. Tenth Annual Multicultural Conference, March 17, 2004. Towson University, MD.

Reading minds: Psychological dimensions in black women’s book clubs. With colleague Leonie J. Brooks. The Association for Women in Psychology 29^th Annual Feminist Psychology Conference. February 26-29, 2004. Philadelphia, PA.

2003 Raks noir: Empowering women of color through the ancient art of “Belly-Dance.” The Association for Women in Psychology 28^th Annual Feminist Psychology Conference. March 6-9, 2003, Jersey City, NJ.

2002 Educating ourselves about the lived experiences of Arab women: A video salon.

8^th Annual Multicultural Conference, Towson University. March 12, 2002.

2000 The role of children and mothering in the culture of African-descended women living in the United States. 25th Annual Association for Women in Psychology Conference. March 10, 2000. Salt Lake City, Utah.

1999 Using theories of feminists of color to plant seeds of activism: Interdisciplinary perspectives. Third Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Towson, Maryland. April.

Women's activism: Interlocking systems of race, gender and class. Third International Interdisciplinary Conference on Black Creativity and the State of the Race, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. April.

1998 Integrating cross-cultural, multi-ethnic, gender equity, sexual orientation and social class diversity perspectives. Second Annual Lilly Conference on College Teaching. Towson, Maryland. April.

Replacing oppression with expression: Integrating feminist, cross-cultural, multi-ethnic, and sexual orientation perspectives in the teaching of psychology courses. Association for Women in Psychology 23rd Annual Conference, March. Baltimore, MD.

1997 The outsider within: Experiences of exclusion and invisibility among African-American women. Mid-Atlantic National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Annapolis, MD. October.

Viewing black women intellectuals through the lens of race, gender, and class. 18th Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference, St. Louis, MO., June 19-22, 1997.

1996 Black women intellectuals. 30th Annual Meeting of the National Council for Black Studies, Washington, D.C. November.

Race, gender, and class in the curriculum: Report on a faculty study group. Seventh Annual National Workshop sponsored by the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN. May.

Black women intellectuals: Scholarship on the intersection of race, gender, and class. Second Annual Towson State University Multidisciplinary Conference on the Scholarship and Creativity of African-Americans, Towson, MD. April.

Multicultural psychology. Baltimore Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD. January 21.

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

· 1998. Awarded full funding from the office of Faculty Development at Towson University to attend the CIEE International Faculty Development Seminar on “Contemporary Vietnam: Recovery, Renewal, and Recognition,” in Vietnam, July 11-21.