Sharon S. Brehm is Professor of Psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington. Born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia, she received a B.A. and a Ph.D in Psychology from Duke University, an A.M. from Harvard University, and completed a clinical psychology internship at the University of Washington Medical Center. After 15 years on the psychology faculty at the University of Kansas, she served as Dean of the Harper College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY Binghamton, Provost at Ohio University, and Chancellor of the Indiana University Bloomington campus. She was an Intra-University Professor at the