M. Brinton Lykes

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Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

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
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

Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College

Selected Recent Publications

Lykes, M.B. & Moane, G. (2009).  Whither feminist liberation psychology? Critical exploration of feminist and liberation psychologies for a globalizing world.  Feminism & Psychology, 19(3), 283-298.  In Feminist Liberation Psychology, Feminism & Psychology, 19(3). Entire Issue Ed. by Lykes & Moane.

Lykes, M. B. & Mallona, A. (2008). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action Research II. Thousand Oaks , CA : SAGE, pp. 260-292.

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. 

Lykes, M.B. & Mersky, M. (2006).  Reparations and mental health:  Psychosocial interventions towards healing, human agency, and rethreading social realities.  In Pablo de Greiff (Ed.). The Handbook of Reparations.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ngonyamaka Sigogo, T., Hooper, M., Long, C., Lykes, M.B.,Wilson, K. & Zietkiewicz, E. (2004). Chasing rainbow notions: Enacting community psychology in the classroom and beyond in post-1994 South Africa. American Journal of Community Psychology 33(1/2), 77-89. 
  
Lykes, M.B., TerreBlanche, M. & Hamber, B. (2003). Narrating survival and change in Guatemala and South Africa: The politics of representation and a liberatory community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology 31(1/2), 79-90.

Women of PhotoVoice & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul. Guatemala: Magna Terra.

Comas-Díaz, L., Lykes, M. B., Alarcón, R. (1998). Ethnic conflict and the psychology of liberation in Guatemala, Perú, and Puerto Rico. American Psychologist, 53(7), 778-792.

Lykes, M. B., Banuazizi, A., Liem, R., & Morris, M. (Eds.). (1996). Myths about the powerless: Contesting social inequalities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.