Selected Publications

Books

Brodsky, A. E. (2003). With All Our Strength: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. New York: Routledge. [Paperback edition, (2004)] Brodsky, A. (2005). Por Baixo da Burca. Sao Paulo, Brasil: A Senhora Editora [Portuguese translation]

Selected Papers and Chapters

Brodsky, A.E., Welsh, E., Carillo, A, Talwar, G., Scheibler, J.E., & Butler, T. (2011) Between synergy and conflict: Balancing the process of organizational and individual resilience in Afghan women. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Welsh, E., & Brodsky, A.E. (2010). After every darkness is light: Resilient Afghan women coping with violence and immigration. Journal of Asian American Psychology.
Brodsky, A. E. (2011). Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience. In Jennifer Heath & Ashraf Zahedi (Eds.) Women of Afghanistan in the Post-9/11 Era: Paths to Empowerment. University of California Press.
Brodsky, A.E. (2011). Violence against Afghan women: Tradition, religion, conflict and war. In Moha Ennaji & Fatima Sadiqi (Eds.) Gender and violence in the MENA region. Taylor & Francis.
Maton, K.I & Brodsky, A. E. (2011). Empowering Community Settings: Theory, Research and Action. In Aber, M., Maton, K.I., & Seidman, E. (Eds). Empowering settings and voices for social change. Oxford University Press.

Brodsky, A. E. (2009). Multiple PSOC in Afghan Context: Women in Communities of Resistance. American Journal of Community Psychology, 44, 176-187.
Brodsky, A. E. & Faryal, T. (2006). No matter how hard you try, your feet still get wet: Insider and outsider perspectives on bridging diversities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 37 (3/4), 311-320.
Loomis, C., Brodsky, A. E., Arteaga, S. S., Benhorin, R., Rogers-Senuta, K., Marx, C. M., & McLaughlin, P. (2004). What Works in Adult Educational and Employment Training? Case Study of a Community-Based Program for Women. Journal of Community Practice, 11, 27-45.
Primavera, J. & Brodsky, A. E. (2004). Introduction to the Special Issue on the Process of Community Research and Action. American Journal of Community Psychology, 33(3/4), 177-179.
Brodsky, A. E., Rogers-Senuta, K., Weiss, C.L., Marx, C. M., Loomis, C., Arteaga, S., Moore, H., Benhorin, R, & Casteganera, A. (2004). When one plus one equals three: The role of relationships in community research. American Journal of Community Psychology, 33(3/4), 229-241.

Brodsky, A. E. & Faryal, T. (2003). Afghan Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine of International Foreign Policy. In J. Evans, M. Levine, and P. Perez (Eds.) In the Twilight of Empire: Essays In Response to Occupation. Santa Monica, CA: Perceval Press.
Brodsky, A. E. & Ovwigho, P. C. (2002). Swimming Against the Tide: Connecting Low-Income Women to Living Wage Jobs. Journal of Poverty. 6(3), 63-87.
Brodsky, A. E., Loomis, C., Marx, C. M. (2002). Expanding the concept of PSOC. In Fisher, A.T., Sonn, C.C., & Bishop, B. J. (Eds.). Psychological sense of community: Research, applications and implications. Kluwer: New York.
Brodsky, A. E. (2001). More than epistemology: Relationships in applied research with under-served communities. Journal of Social Issues, 57(2), 323-335.
Brodsky, A. E. & Marx, C. M. (2001). Layers of identity: Multiple psychological senses of community within a community setting. Journal of Community Psychology, 29(2), 1-18.

Caughey, M.O, Brodsky, A. E., O'Campo, P., & Aronson, R.A (2001). Parenting in Neighborhood Context. American Journal of Community Psychology, 29(5), 679-700.
Brodsky, A. E. (2000). The role of spirituality in the resilience of urban, African-American, single mothers. Journal of Community Psychology, 28(2), 199-220.
Brodsky, A. E. & DeVet K.A. (2000). Planful parenting: Parenting goals and discipline strategies of resilient, urban, African American single mothers. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 29(1/2), 159-178.
Brodsky, A. E. ( 1999). Making it: The components and process of resilience in urban African-American single mothers. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69(2), 148-160.
Brodsky, A. E., O'Campo, P., Aronson, R.A. (1999) PSOC in community context: Multi-level correlates of a measure of psychological sense of community in low-income, urban neighborhoods. Journal of Community Psychology, 27(6), 659-680.
Caughey, M.O, O'Campo, P., & Brodsky, A. E. (1999). Neighborhoods, families, and children: Implications for policy and practice. Journal of Community Psychology, 27(5), 615-633.
Lorion, R.P., Brodsky, A. E. & Cooley-Quille, M. (1999). Exposure to violence. In Biegel, D.E. & Blum, A.(Eds.) Innovations in Practice and Service Delivery Across the Lifespan. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brodsky, A. E. (1996) Resilient single mothers in risky neighborhoods: Negative psychological sense of community. Journal of Community Psychology, 24(4), 347-363.

Selected Trade Articles and Technical Reports

Brodsky, A. E. (2007, July 29). Lessons in a King's Death. Baltimore Sun, p. A21. Reprinted in Arab News & The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
Brodsky, A. E. (2006, October 13) Where the rhetoric doesn't match the reality: Return to Afghanistan. Counterpunch. Available on-line.
Brodsky, A. E. (2005, Summer) Beyond Vassar: With All Our Strength. Vassar Quarterly, Vol 101, Issue 3, p. 45.
Brodsky, A. E. (2004, September 14). Leapfrog: America is playing a dangerous game with Afghanistan / Whither Afghanistan. The Gadflyer & alternet.org.
Brodsky, A. E. (2003, September 20). New Saddlebags, Old Donkey: Return to Afghanistan. Counterpunch.
Brodsky, A. E. (2003). Liner Notes. "Azadi: A benefit compilation for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan". Fire Museum Records , San Francisco, CA.
Brodsky, A. E. (2002, September 30). Hollow Victory: Afghanistan struggles out of the rubble. In These Times, p. 5.
Brodsky, A. E. (2002, July 29). Inside Pakistan and Afghanistan with RAWA. Counterpunch.
Brodsky, A. E. (2002, April. 22). Expand Peace Force in Afghanistan. [Letter to the Editor]. New York Times, p. A30.
Brodsky, A. E. (2001, September 24). The Taliban's Victims. The Washington Post, p. A19.

Selected Professional Presentations

Brodsky, A. E. (2008, October). Risk and resilience in cross cultural settings: Exploring women's mental health struggles and successes in poor U.S. neighborhoods and in Afghanistan. Continuing Education lecture. Sheppard Pratt, Baltimore, MD.
Brodsky, A. E. (2008, June). Advances in the Measurement of Sense of Community across contexts and cultures. Discussant in panel organized by David Chavis at the 2nd International Conference on Community Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Brodsky, A. E. (2007, Dec). Tradition, Conflict and War: Violence Against Afghan Women and the Failures of Chivalrous Liberation. In Women in the War on Terror. Rutgers University, Radigals. New Bruswick, NJ.
Brodsky, A. E. (2007, June). Documenting Risk and Resilience Among Afghan Women: Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research In An International Setting. Paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research. Washington, DC.
Brodsky, A. E. (2006, June). Multiple PSOC in Afghan Context: Women in Communities of Resistance. In Arcidiacono, C. and Fisher, A. Sense of community and its international conceptualizations. Paper presented at the First International Conference of Community Psychology. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Brodsky, A. E. (2006, February). Risk and Resilience: The Psychological Needs of Women in Afghanistan. Invited Paper delivered at Mental Health in Humanity Aid: Psychological Care and International Support. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Community Presentations

Brodsky, A. E. (2008). An Introduction to the Lives of Afghan Women. Talk to senior English students at Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, MD. (May)
Brodsky, A. E. (2008). What if you lived in Afghanistan: The lives of young people in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Teach in for Peace and Justice. The Park School of Baltimore, MD. (April).
Brodsky, A. E. (2008). The Resilience of Afghan Women: Pre and Post Taliban. Invited lecture Charlestown Retirement Community, Catonsville, MD. (March)
Brodsky, A. E. (2008). With All Our Strength: Telling a Story of Afghan Women, Community and Resilience. Invited talk to senior English students at Carver Center for Arts and Technology, Towson, MD (Feb)
Brodsky, A. E. (2007). Report from Afghanistan. Panel Discussion on Afghanistan. Baltimore Chapter Afghans for Civil Society (with Qayum Karzai and Fahima Vorgetts). Baltimore, MD. (July).

Selected Press Coverage

MWC.News, October 3, 2006. A Discussion with Anne Brodsky.
Azizah: The Voice of Muslim Women, Vol. 3, Issue 3. Book Club, p. 22.
Women and Environments International, Spring/Summer 2004. Book Review. p. 56.
EurasiaNet. September 26, 2003. New Book Examines A Clandestine Group's 26-Year Effort To Improve Conditions For Afghan Women .
The News, Pakistan. September 14, 2003. These Women Have A Dream. [Review].
Baltimore Sun, September 11, 2003. An American Voice for Afghan Women. p. C.1.
The Daily Subh, Peshawar Pakistan. July 1, 2003 [Urdu].
Daily Khabrain, Peshawar Pakistan. July 1, 2003 [Urdu].
Daily Mashriq, Peshawar Pakistan. July 1, 2003 [Urdu].
The Statesman, Peshawar Pakistan. July 1, 2003. Writer's praise for RAWA.
The Daily Times, Peshawar, Pakistan. July 1, 2003. US professor launches book on RAWA.
Arab Women's E News, May 19, 2003. [Arabic].
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Mar. 2, 2003. Book Shows Afghan Women's Covert Struggle.
American Psychological Association The Monitor, January 2002. Snakes, scorpions and trauma: The refugee plight. Baltimore Sun, Nov 25, 2001. The struggle continues.