Dr. Susan C. Cloninger is Professor of Psychology at The Sage Colleges, where she has taught since 1979. She teaches on both the Troy and Albany campuses, and is Coordinator of the School of Professional and Continuing Education psychology program. Her courses include Introductory Psychology, Personality Theory, Social Psychology, Senior Seminar, and Great Ideas in Psychology. Before coming to Sage, Dr. Cloninger taught at the University of Maryland extension program in Germany; was a post-doctoral fellow in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley; and worked analyzing national survey research at the Social Action Research Center in San Rafael, California. She received her graduate degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, specializing in personality, and her undergraduate degree in psychology from Valparaiso University in Indiana.
A former National Science Foundation fellow and National Merit scholar, Dr. Cloninger has published two textbooks in personality. "Theories of Personality: Understanding Persons" (published by Prentice Hall) is now in its fifth edition. It has been published in Portugese ("Teorias da Personalidade," translated by Claudia Berliner) by Martins Fontes, and also in Russian. "Personality: Description, Dynamics, and Development" (published by W. H. Freeman ) has also been published, by Flammarion, in French ("La Personnalite: Description, Dynamique, et Developpement," translated by Alice Tibi). On and off, as time permits, she is writing an introductory psychology textbook. Dr. Cloninger is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society.