as an Interim professor in the Department of Counselor Education at McGill University (1974-1975) before moving to Boston University where she was a Clinical Professor in the Counseling Psychology Program (1975-1986). After four years as the Director of the Counseling Psychology Program at Tufts University (1986-1990), Espín moved to the Department of Women's Studies, San Diego State University, where she remained until her retirement in 2007 while also working part-time as Professor at the California School of Professional Psychology. In San Diego, Espin was part of a writers' group that included Lillian Faderman, Carolyn Marsden, and Abigail Padgett who encouraged her to write about memory and language. Other important colleagues who influenced her writing were Ellyn Kaschak and Natalie Porter. Books Cole, E., Rothblum, E. D., & Espín, O. M. (Eds.) (1992). Refugee women and their mental health: Shattered societies, shattered lives. Haworth Press. Espín, O. M. (Ed.) (1997). Latina realities: Essays on healing, migration, and sexuality . Westview Press. Espín, O. M. (1999). Women crossing boundaries: A psychology of immigration and transformations of sexuality. Routledge. Espín, O.M. (2020). My native land is memory: Stories of a Cuban childhood. San Diego: San Diego State University Press. Espín, O. M. (2020). Women, sainthood, and power: A feminist psychology of cultural constructions. Lexington Books. Espín, O. M. & Dottolo, A. L. (2015). Gendered journeys: Women, migration and feminist psychology . Palgrave MacMillan. Kawahara, D. M., & Espín, O. M. (Eds.). (2007). Feminist reflections on growth and transformation: Asian American women in therapy . Haworth Press. Kawahara, D. M., & Espín, O. M. (Eds.). (2013). Feminist therapy with Latina women: Personal and social voices . Routledge. References External links Faculty Homepage Psychology's Feminist Voices Profile Oliva M. Espin, Ph.D., APA Featured Psychologist Cuban women psychologists American clinical psychologists Cuban feminists Cuban psychologists University of Florida alumni Boston University faculty San Diego State University faculty American people of Cuban descent 1938 births Living people