Title
Professor and Executive Director
Institution / Organization
James Madison University and International Beliefs and Values Institute, United States
Bio
Craig N. Shealy, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (www.ibavi.org) and Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University (http://www.psyc.jmu.edu/gradpsyc/people/shealy.html). Dr. Shealy works with the IBAVI’s Executive and Advisory Boards to lead and coordinate a wide range of scholarly, educational, and service activities and partnerships with individuals and organizations in the United States and internationally, including Cultivating the Globally Sustainable Self, a multi-year, multi-institution Summit Series (https://summitx.org/); various research and applied projects from the Summit Series will be published in a forthcoming book that Dr. Shealy edits for Oxford University Press. Dr. Shealy’s research on the etiology, maintenance, and transformation of beliefs and values – explicated through Equilintegration (EI) Theory, the EI Self, and the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory (BEVI) – has been featured in a wide range of publications and scholarly forums, including Making Sense of Beliefs and Values: Theory, Research, and Practice, a recent volume with Springer Publishing (http://www.springerpub.com/media/samplechapters/9780826104526/9780826104526_chapter.pdf) as well as invited presentations in the United States and internationally (e.g., Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Bombay, India; Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Centre for the Sociology of Culture, Kazan State University, Russia; Hiroshima University, Japan). The BEVI is used in multiple settings and contexts (e.g., clinical, educational, forensic, international, leadership, organizational) as well as the six-year, multi-institution Forum BEVI Project, which assessed the processes and outcomes of international, multicultural, and transformative learning (www.forumea.org/research-bevi-project.cfm). A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Shealy is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, President (2017) of the American Psychological Association’s Division of International Psychology, recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Psychotherapy, a Madison Scholar at James Madison University, a Nehru Chair at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India, and a National Register Legacy of Excellence Psychologist.