Associate Professor, Fordham University
Shellae Versey is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Fordham University. Her research focuses on aging in place, neighborhoods, and housing. Shellae's work engages themes of research and advocacy, exploring how older adults aging in place experience neighborhood change. One of her current projects includes the Fighting Displacement Study, a nationwide study examining drivers of displacement (e.g., eviction) among precariously housed women. Shellae graduated from the University of Michigan with a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Epidemiology. Her teaching now focuses on social psychology, issues of intersectionality, housing, and environmental justice.
Keywords
lifespan development, aging in place, displacement, space and place attachment, neighborhood characteristics, housing instability, intersectionality, mixed methods, community-based participatory research (CBPR), women's health, work-family conflict