Caryl Rivers

-Author, journalist, media critic and professor of Journalism at Boston University

-New blog for Psycholoigy Today (with Dr. Barnett) titled A Woman's Place, where they keep track of new research on women.

-One book (with Dr. Rosalind Barnett of Brandeis) :The New Soft War on Women. (Tarcher/Penguin). Research on New Bias against women and how it works. (An Oprah Top Ten pick.)

-A new book coming out in August, with co-author, Dr. Rosalind Barnett of Brandeis University: "The Age of Longevity: Reimagining the Future For Our New Long Lives." It will be published in August by Rowman and Littlefield.

-Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women. University Press of New England.

-Other research-based books about gender, families and work with Dr. Barnett: Same Difference, (Basic) The Truth about Girls and Boys (Columbia) She Works, He Works (Harper Collins) Lifeprints (McGraw-Hill). The Sloan Foundation cited Lifeprints as a "classic book" from the work-family canon that has made "a significant contribution and stood the test of time." The book (about women’s lives) was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

-Articles have appeared in the New York Times magazine, Daily Beast, Huffington post, Salon, The Nation, Saturday Review, Ms., Mother Jones, Dissent, McCalls, Glamour, Redbook, Rolling Stone, Ladies Home Journal and many others. Frequent commentary for the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post and Womensenews.

-In 2007, awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. She is the author of four novels and ten works of non-fiction, all critically acclaimed. Her books have been selections of the Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club and Troll Book club.

-Awards: Goldsmith Research Grant, from the Shorenstein Center at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, for research on gender and media issue.; Casey medal for distinguished journalism about children and families; special citation from the National Education Writers association. Gannett Freedom Forum grant, for research on gender and media.