Dr. Amy Wolfson Bio

Dr. Wolfson is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross, where she has taught since the fall of 1992. She grew up in Connecticut and earned her bachelor’s degree at Harvard and Radcliffe in 1982. Dr. Wolfson completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Washington University (St. Louis) in 1987, and then spent two years at Stanford University doing post-doctoral work on women and depression. Her past research looked at infant sleep and parent stress levels, children’s coping strategies, women’s sleep, and the sleep/wake patterns of young children. Since 1994, she has devoted her research and consulting to adolescents’ (middle and high school age) sleep and daytime functioning such as, academic performance. Some of her recent work has focused on women’s sleep during pregnancy and the postpartum months. Over the last two years, Dr. Wolfson has worked on developing and evaluating a sleep hygiene program for middle school-age adolescents, the Sleep-Smart Pacesetter Program. In addition, her first book was published in 2001, The Woman’s Book of Sleep: A Complete Resource Guide. Dr. Wolfson has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Self, Woman’s Day, Working Mother and many other magazines and newspapers across the nation. In addition to her print experience, she has been featured on national television and radio programs and has contributed articles to high-profile Web sites such as About.com, Parent-Teen.com, She Knows, among others.

She has also been involved with numerous grants, awards and honors including two Howard Hughes Summer Research Fellowship Awards, two Hewlett Mellon Faculty Fellowships, the Arthur J. O’Leary Faculty Recognition Award, Fisher Summer Research Fellowship Award, and grants from the Marshall Memorial Fund, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the National Institutes of Health.

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