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The Historical, Theoretical, and Disquisitional Studies of Psychology Program is i of only a few graduate psychology programs in Canada and internationally available to students wishing to conduct specialized research on historical topics in psychology, in psychological theory and metatheory, and in critical psychology.

Students in the program apply a broad range of research methods, including the estimation of primary texts, the collection and interpretation of archival material, the conduct and use of oral history, soapbox analysis, thematic analysis, and digital history methods such as network assay.

Main and adjunct kinesthesia members with interests in a wide range of areas including: psychologies of race/ethnicity and gender, sexuality, cognitive psychology, behavioral psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, digital history, statistics and methodology, and philosophical psychology are available to human activity as supervisors and committee members.

Kinesthesia members in the program are actively engaged in grant-funded research and serve in leadership roles beyond a number of national and international organizations devoted to the history and theory of the social and behavioral sciences. A monthly colloquium series draws on the rich array of expertise in history/theory/critique of psychology, science and engineering science studies, and history and philosophy of science available in the York University customs, the greater Toronto area, and internationally.

Applicants should take a solid grounding in psychology (usually a BA or BSc in Psychology), as well as some experience in the behave of psychological research. Every bit part of their programme of study, students are strongly encouraged to have advantage of opportunities to railroad train in teaching and pedagogy through the Instruction Commons, and to establish competence in the content area of psychology that is complementary to their historical/ theoretical/critical interests. Our graduates have successfully procured postdoctoral fellowships and tenure-runway academic appointments in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

Faculty members in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology stand in solidarity with the protests confronting anti-Blackness, systematic racism, and police brutality. We are committed to examining and changing our own practices in light of psychology's historic and current function in perpetuating anti-black racism and racist scientific discipline. We are working to ensure that the HTC plan curriculum (course syllabi, reading lists, etc.), at both undergraduate and graduate levels, incorporates anti-racist and decolonial scholarship and critically interrogates the racist and colonial foundations on which institutional Psychology is based. As a small start, we are building bibliographies of relevant history of psychology literature that can be fatigued on to facilitate these goals. A draft of the first bibliography, on race and racism in the history of psychology, is available hither. Work on these resources is ongoing. Nosotros welcome suggestions.

For questions about the program, please contact the Expanse Coordinator Dr. Alexandra Rutherford. For admissions queries, please east-mail gradpsyc@yorku.ca.

To apply online, delight visit How to Apply.

Additional Plan Information

  • Bilal Afsin
  • Arlie Belliveau
  • David Berman
  • Mariya Bezgrebelna
  • Stephan Bonfield
  • Ian Davidson
  • Tal Davidson
  • Shayna Pull a fast one on Lee
  • Tony Miller
  • Susannah Mulvale
  • Eric Oosenbrug
  • Patric Plesa
  • Kashmala Qasim
  • Michael Ruderman
  • Raha Sheivari
  • Volodymyr Slyvka
  • Kelli Vaughan-Johnson

These offshoot faculty have appointments external to York just are available to serve equally reading course and practicum supervisors and committee members.

  • Jeremy Trevelyan Burman is a tenure-rail assistant professor at the University of Groningen in kingdom of the netherlands, where he teaches more often than not in their theory and history of psychology graduate plan. His research has ii main foci: archival studies related to Jean Piaget, and the use of digital methods as formal tools for reflecting on psychology (particularly in terms of internationalization, indigenization, and meaning-change). (Email: j.t.burman@carpeting.nl)
  • Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi completed his post doctoral studies in psychology at Harvard University, and having  served in  academic positions and having published with Springer, Wiley, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Printing, Templeton Press, Palgrave McMillan, Lexington, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, and Routlege, works on disquisitional and Langerian mindfulness, clinical psychology and critical psychology, cultural psychology and Philosophical psychology, psychotherapy and creativity, critical social psychology, psychology of film and linguistic communication. (E-mail: smfatemi@hotmail.com)
  • Cathy Faye is the Assistant Director of the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. She works on the history of American social psychology, feminism and museums, and the history of women in psychology. (E-mail: cfaye@uakron.edu)
  • Angela Febbraro is a senior research scientist at Defence force Enquiry and Evolution Canada. She works on sexual harassment in the military, gender and radicalization, and gender and armed forces psychology. (Email: Angela.Febbraro@drdc-rddc.gc.ca)
  • Edwin Hersch is a psychiatrist and philosopher who works on phenomenological models for psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. (Email: edwinhersch@bellnet.ca)
  • Wade Pickren is a historian of psychology who works on culture, race/ethnicity, indigenization, decoloniality, and health psychology. He has too published on the history of clinical psychology and psychological organizations, especially in the mail-WWII United states. (Email: wpar29@gmail.com)

The program runs a monthly colloquium series in which graduate students workshop their projects and local and international speakers are invited to present. Please visit HT Talks for more information.

Given annually to an outstanding graduate student in the program, this award was established by 1 of the program's founders, Dr. Raymond E. Fancher, and includes a prize of $1000. For more than information including how to donate, please visit Raymond Due east. Fancher Award.

Past Winners

  • Zhipeng Gao - 2017
  • Ian J. Davidson - 2018

The programme has hosted a variety of international visiting scholars who enrich the intellectual life of the program and often become collaborators. Here is a partial list of current and recent visitors:

  • Bo Wang - Nanjing University, Prc
  • Nora Ruck - Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
  • Gisele Toassa - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
  • Adriana Kaulino - Diego Portales University of Santiago-Republic of chile
  • Neelam Kumar - National Institute of Scientific discipline, Technology & Evolution Studies, New Delhi