EDUCATION

Ph.D., Boston College
M.Div., Harvard University

EXPERTISE/INTERESTS

Psychosocial effects of state-sponsored terror and organized violence; human rights policy and mental health interventions; participatory action research and community-based strategies for change; immigration and effects of deportation on families and communities; gender, culture, and theories of the self

HONORS/PUBLICATIONS/ PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

International Humanitarian Award, American Psychological Association (APA) 2013

Ignacio Martin-Baro Lifetime Peace Practitioner Award, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence, (Division 48-Peace Psychology) American Psychological Association, 2012

Distinguished Publication Award, Association of Women in Psychology, 2010

Marion Langer Award for Distinction in Social Advocacy & the Pursuit of Human Rights, American Orthopsychiatric Association, 2007

Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Lewis & Clark College, June, 2005

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lykes, M.B., Brabeck, K.M. & Hunter, C. (2013). Exploring Parent-Child Communication in the Context of Threat:  Mixed-status families facing detention and deportation in post 9/11 USA.  Community, Work and Family.

Scheib,H. & Lykes, M.B. (2013). African American and Latina Community Health Workers engage PhotoPAR as a resource in a post-disaster context: Katrina at 5 years.  Journal of Health Psychology, 18.

Hershberg, R.M. & Lykes, M.B. (2012).  Redefining familly:  Transnational girls narrate experiences of parental migration, detention, and deportation. FQS: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Research, 14(1), Art. 5, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130157

Lykes, M.B.(2012) One legacy among many:  The Ignacio Martin-Baro Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights at 21.  Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 18(1).

Lykes, M.B. & Hershberg, R. (2012) Participatory Action Relearch and Feminisms: Social Inequalities and Transformative Praxis.  In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (Ed.) Handbook of Feminist Research II:  Theory and Praxis.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  SAGE, pp. 331-367.

Crosby, A. & Lykes, M.B.. (2011).  Mayan women survivors speak:  The gendered relations of truth-telling in postwar Guatemala.  International Journal of Transitional Justice 5(3).

Brabeck, K. B., Lykes, M.B., & Hershberg, R. (2011). Framing immigration to and deportation from the United States: Guatemalan and Salvadoran families make meaning of their experiences. Community, Work and Family, 14(3), 275-296.  first published on 25 March 2011.  Doi: 10/1080/13668803.2010.520840.

Lykes, M. B. (2010) Silence(ing), memory(ies) and voice(s):Feminist participatory action research and photo-narratives in the wake of gross violations of human rights. Visual Studies, 25 (3), 238-254.

Lykes, M.B. & Moane, G. (2009). Feminist Liberation Psychology:  Special Issue.  Feminism & Psychology, 19(3). Entire Issue.

Lykes, M. B., Beristain, C. M., & Cabrera Pérez-Armiñan, M. L. (2007). Political violence, impunity, and emotional climate in Maya communities. Journal of Social Issues, 63(2), 369-385.

Costanzo, M., Gerrity, E. & Lykes , M.B. (2006). Psychologists and the use of torture in interrogations. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (ASAP), 6(1), 1-14.

Women of PhotoVoice/ADMI & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. Guatemala: Magna Terra. Texts in Spanish and English, with a methodology chapter by Lykes.