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Michelle Albaugh

Michelle Albaugh

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Biography
Michelle Albaugh is a doctoral candidate in the Human Development & Social Policy program in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from DePaul University in music in 1994. Her research thus far has centered on the intersection of personal faith and political ideology. She has collaborated with Professor Dan McAdams, using his narrative theory of personality and associated methodologies to study how committed Christians, politically liberal and conservative, differ from each other. Her interests include religious identity, religious trends in American society and culture, charismatic/transformational leadership, leadership in religious organizations, qualitative and narrative methods, and a variety of quantitative methods.

Awards/Honors
2005 - Spencer Research Training Grant, Spencer Foundation

2004 - Human Development and Social Policy Graduate Fellowship

Research/Scholarship
Education
Year Degree Institution
2007 MA, Human Dev & Social Pol
Human Development and Social Policy 		Northwestern University
1994 Bachelor of Music DePaul University

Selected Publications
McAdams, D. P. & Albaugh, M. (In Press/Under Review). The Redemptive Self, Generativity, and American Christians at Midlife: Life Stories of Evangelical and Mainline Protestants in Belzen, J. A. & Geels, A., Autobiography and the psychological study of religious lives.

McAdams, Albaugh, Farber, Daniels, Logan, & Olson (October, 2008). Family metaphors and moral intuitions: How conservatives and liberals narrate their lives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: 978-990.

McAdams, D. & Albaugh, M. (August, 2008). What if there were no God? Politically conservative and liberal CHristians imagine their lives without faith. Journal of Research in Personality.

Selected Presentations
Albaugh, M. L., & McAdams, D. P. (February, 2008). Politically Engaged Christians Imagine Life Without Faith. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). Albuquerque, NM.

Albaugh, M. L. (January, 2007). Political Orientation and Pastoral Leadership: A Lakoff-ian View. Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). Memphis, TN.
Symposia and Workshops
Year Description
2007 Albaugh, M. L. (2007). Personality, Politics, and Personal Ideology: Right and Left Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Portland, OR.

Research Interests
My interests include religious identity, religious trends in American society and culture, charismatic/transformational leadership, leadership in religious organizations, qualitative and narrative methods, and a variety of quantitative methods.
Lab Affiliations
Foley Center for the Study of Lives
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