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 PUBLICATIONS

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. (2010). No easy road to freedom: Engendering and enculturating forced migration. In D.Hollenbach, SJ (Ed.), Driven from Home:  Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, pp. 71-93.

Lykes, M.B., Coquillon, E.D., & Rabenstein, K. L. (2010).  Theoretical and methodological challenges in participatory community-based research.  In H. Landrine & N.F. Russo (Eds.), Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology.  New York:  Spring Publishing, pp. 55-82.

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

Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E.D. (2009).  Psychosocial trauma, poverty, and human rights in communities emerging from war.  In D. fox, I. Prilleltensky, & S. Austin, *Eds.), Critical Psychology II.  London: SAGE, pp. 285-299.

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.

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, pp. 589-622.

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.