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Ben Harris <bh5@unh.edu> University of New Hampshire |
| Secondary Phone: | 603-862-4107 |
| Web Page: | http://www.unh.edu/psychology/faculty/fac_harris.htm |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-HOAC |
| Interests: | American History / Studies Labor History / Studies Political History / Studies |
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Bio: BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE Benjamin Harris ACADEMIC POSITION Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampsire, 2001-present EDUCATION Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1975 Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts B.A., Social Science, 1971 AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND ACADEMIC HONORS Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1989-1990 Elected Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1989 Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1989 SERVICE TO SCHOLARLY ORGANIZATIONS Executive Officer, Cheiron (the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences) 1996-2002 Consulting Editor, History of Psychology, 1996-present Advisory Editor, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 2000-2002 Advisory Editor, Isis, 1999-2001 Member, Central Committee, Historians of American Communism, 1998-present Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, 1991-1998 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Harris, B. (2000). Psychology. In A. Hassenbruch (Ed.), Reader's Guide to the History of Science (pp. 607-608). London: Fitzroy Dearborn. Harris, B. (1999). J. F. Brown; Margaret Wooster Curti; Otto Fenichel; Arnold Gesell; George W. Hartmann; Otto Klineberg; Goodwin Watson; John B. Watson. In J. A. Garraty and M. C. Carnes (Eds.), American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. Harris, B. (1998). Psychiatry and Psychology. In M. J. Buhle, P. Buhle and D. Georgakas (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the American Left (2nd edition) (pp. 644-647). New York: Oxford. Harris, B. (1998). The perils of a public intellectual. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 79-118. Harris, B. & Nicholson, I. A. M., (1998). Toward a history of psychological expertise. Journal of Social Issues, 54, 1-6. Harris, B. (1997). Repoliticizing the history of psychology. In D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical psychology: An introductory handbook. London: Sage. Harris, B. (1996). Psychology and Marxist politics in America. In I. Parker & R. Spears (Eds.), Psychology and society: Radical theory and practice (pp. 64-78). London: Pluto Press. Harris, B. (1995). History of Psychiatry. [Review of Discovering the History of Psychiatry, edited by Mark S. Micale and Roy Porter]. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 987-988. Harris, B. (1995). The Benjamin Rush Society and Marxist psychiatry in the United States, 1944-1951. History of Psychiatry, 6, 309-331. Harris, B. (1993). 'Don't be unconscious, join our ranks': Psychology, politics and communist education. Rethinking Marxism, 6 (1), 44-76. Harris, B., & Brock, A. (1992). Freudian psychopolitics: The rivalry of Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel, 1930-1935. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 66, 577-611. Harris, B., & Brock, A. (1991). Otto Fenichel and the left opposition in psychoanalysis. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 27, 157-165. Harris, B. (1990, March 13). Hollywood blacklist's psychohistory. [Review of the film Fellow Traveller]. In These Times, 15. Harris, B. (1988). Key words: a history of 'debriefing' in social psychology. In J. G. Morawski (Ed.), The rise of experimentation in American psychology (pp. 188-212). New Haven: Yale University Press. Harris, B., Unger, R., & Stagner, R., (eds.), (1986). Fifty years of the psychology of social issues. Journal of Social Issues, 42 (1). Harris, B. (1980). The FBI's files on APA and SPSSI: Description and implications. American Psychologist, 35, 1141-1144. Harris, B. (1979). Whatever happened to Little Albert? American Psychologist, 34, 151-160. |
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