Faculty | Susan Cloninger

Dr. Susan C. Cloninger is Professor of Psychology at The Sage Colleges, where she has taught since 1979. She teaches introductory psychology, personality, social psychology, seminar, and occasionally other courses. Dr. Cloninger has also taught at the University of Maryland extension program in Germany. She was a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and before coming to Sage, worked analyzing national survey research at the Social Action Research Center in San Rafael, California. She received her graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, specializing in personality, and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Valparaiso University in Indiana.

A former National Science Foundation fellow and National Merit scholar, Dr. Cloninger teaches in the undergraduate programs at Russell Sage College and the Junior College of Albany, in the Evening Division, and in the Graduate Division. She has published two textbooks in personality. "Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons" (published by Prentice Hall) is now in its third edition, with a 4th edition scheduled to be out in summer, 2004. It has been published in Portugese ("Teorias da Personalidade," translated by Claudia Berliner) by Martins Fontes, and also in Russian. "Personality: Description, Dynamics, and Development" (published by W. H. Freeman ) has also been published, by Flammarion, in French ("La Personnalite: Description, Dynamique, et Developpement," translated by Alice Tibi). Currently, she is writing an introductory psychology textbook.

Dr. Cloninger is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, and is active in the Sage Faculty Association.