Campion Hall Room 341
Telephone: 617-552-0670
Email: brinton.lykes@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-6772-8413
Anti-racist feminist activist scholarship incorporating the creative arts and onto-epistemologies of original peoples to focus on: (1) rethreading life in the wake of racialized and gendered violence during armed conflict and in post-genocide transitions and (2) migration and post-deportation human rights violations, transnational families, and resistance.
Dr. Lykes is not currently accepting Ph.D. students.
M. Brinton Lykes, Ph.D., is professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College. She has published extensively in refereed journals and edited volumes, co-edited four books, co-authored four others, and is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.
She received the Ignacio Martín-Baró Lifetime Peace Practitioner Award, the American Psychological Association’s International Humanitarian Award, the Florence L. Denmark and Mary E. Reuder Award for Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender, the Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action, and the 2021 Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide.
Lykes is also a co-founder and board member on several NGOs including Women’s Rights International, Impunity Watch, and Ignacio Martín-Baró Initiative of Wellbeing and Human Rights at Grassroots International.
Lykes, M. B. & Lindorfer, S. (2023). Feminist praxis towards liberating psychology in the 21st century: Knowledge constructed with Mayan and Rwandan Survivor-Protagonists. Medical Research Archives, European Society of Medicine. 11(9). doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i9.4353
Bianco, M.E. & Lykes, M. B. (2023). Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: Dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers. Journal of Global Ethics, 19(2), 150-169. doi: 10.1080/17449626.2023.2211080
Moura, James Ferreira, Negreiros, D.J., Lykes, M. B., Oliveira, J.S., Lima, L.B.P., & Barros, J.P.P. (2023). Racialized and gendered impoverishment and violence in Ceará, Brazil: Narratives of surviving mothers and sisters of murdered Black women. Journal of Poverty, DOI: 10.1080/10875549.2023.2173707
Lykes, M. B., *Távara, G., & *Rey-Guerra, C. (2022). Making meaning of women's persistence and protagonism in the wake of genocidal violence: Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala [Mujeres Maya Ixil y K’iche’ de Chajul, Guatemala:construyendo significado desde la persistencia y el protagonismo de las mujeres tras la violencia genocida]. Feminism and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/09593535221118428
Lykes, M. B., Crosby, A. & Álvarez Medrano, S. B. (2021). Redressing Historical Injustice, Reframing Resilience: Mayan Women's Persistence and Protagonism as Resistance. In J.N. Clark & M. Ungar (Eds.) Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence. (pp. 210-233). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Lykes, M. B. & McGillen, G. (2021). Re/membering Ignacio Martín-Baró: Provocations and Insights for Liberating Psychology in the 21st Century. In Stevens, G. & Sonn, C. (Eds.) Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice in Contemporary Community Psychology. (pp. 79-99). Springer.
Lykes, M. B. (2021). Living Lives of Protest in Multiple Registers: Dialogic Co-Constructions of Narratives in the Wake of Genocidal Violence. In C. Squire (Ed.). Stories Changing Lives: Narratives and Paths toward Social Change. (pp. 121-143). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Lykes, M. B., Bianco, M. E., & Távara, G. (2021) Contributions and Limitations of Diverse Qualitative Methods to Feminist Participatory and Action Research with Women in the Wake of Gross Violations of Human Rights. Methods in Psychology, 4. DOI: 10.1016/j.metip.2020.100043
Lykes, M. B., Távara, G., Sibley, E. & Ferreira van Leer, K. (2020). Maya K’iche’ Families and Intergenerational Migration within and across Borders: An Exploratory mixed-methods study. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 6(1), 52-73.
Kim, S., Kirk, G. & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (2020). Unsettling Debates: Women and Peace Making. Special Issue, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order, 46(1) (Issue 155). This SI includes two original co-authored articles by the co-editors, an Introduction (pp. 1-11) and an Epilogue (pp. 119-127).
Crosby, A. & Lykes, M. B. (2019). Beyond repair? Mayan women’s protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Spanish translation: Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida. (Megan Thomas, trans.). Guatemala City, Guatemala: Cholsamaj.
2021: Interamerican Psychological Association Award “Judith Gibbons”
2021: Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide,
2018: International White Dove Award, Rochester Committee on Latin America
2017: Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action (Division 27) American Psychological Association
2014: The Florence L. Denmark & Mary E. Reuder Award, Outstanding International Contributions to the Psychology of Women and Gender (Division 52) American Psychological Association
2013: International Humanitarian Award, American Psychological Association (APA)
Lykes, M.B., Supporting Mental Health and Human Rights: The Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund. 2010–2016
Lykes, M. B., with D. Hollenbach, S.J., and D. Kanstroom, Esq. Initiative on Research and Education on Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees. 2009– 2016
Lykes, M.B., with A. Crosby. Focusing on the Creative Arts as a Resource for Women’s Empowerment in Guatemala. Sub-Contract from IDRC/U of Ulster, Trauma, Development and Peacebuilding: Towards an Integrated Psychosocial Approach. 2011