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= Rose Olver = Rose Olver taught at Amherst College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, for 50 years in the Departments of Psychology and Gender Studies (later named The Department of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies - SWAGS).

Olver was the first female professor at Amherst College. and the L. Stanton Williams '41 Professor of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies. She graduated from Swarthmore College and earned her doctorate from Radcliffe College. In 1962, Olver became the first full-time woman on the faculty in a tenure-track position.

In 1968, she became the chair of the Psychology Department. In 1970, Olver became the first woman to chair any academic department at Amherst.

In an Amherst biography Olver is considered "a leading expert in the psychology of self."