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EDUCATION
1978-1984 Boston College Chestnut Hill,
MA. Community/Social Psychology Ph.D.
Thesis topic: Autonomous individualism vs. social individuality:
Towards an alternative understanding of the self.
1970-1973 Harvard Divinity School Cambridge, MA.
Applied Theology/Psychology & Religion
M.Div. Honors.
1966-1970 Hollins College Virginia. Philosophy &
Religion
B.A. Honors.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Marion Langer Award for Distinction in Social
Advocacy & the Pursuit of Human Rights, American Orthopsychiatric Association,
2007
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris cuasa, Lewis & Clark College,
June, 2005
Honoree, Qualitative Methods in Psychology, First Annual Conference, CUNY
Graduate Center, 1997
Rev. John Trazaska Faculty Advisor Award, Boston College, 1996
Jesuit Institute, Visiting Scholar Fellowship, 1991-1992
Faculty Research Grant, Rhode Island College, 1986 1987; 1988 1989
Faculty Scholars Award, Rhode Island College, summer, 1986; 1989
Boston College Teaching Excellence Award, 1984
Alpha Sigma Nu, National Jesuit Honor Society, 1981
University Fellowship, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1980; 1982
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Grant, Cambridge, MA, l974
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, Hollins College, Hollins, VA, 1970
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Psychological Association
(Divisions 9, 27, 35, 48), Fellow, Divisions 27, 35, 48
Guatemala Scholars Network
InterAmerican Psychological Association
Latin American Studies Association
New England Council on Latin America
EDITORIAL
BOARDS
2006-present, Associate Editor, Journal of Transitional Justice
2001-present, Associate Editor, Action Research Journal
1994-present, Associate Editor, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology
POSITIONS HELD
2005-present
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice,
Boston College
1997-present Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology, Department of
Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Boston College,
School of Education, on leave 1999-2001
2003-2007 Associate Dean, Boston College, Lynch School of Education
1999-2001 Chair of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Coordinator of
MA in Community-Counseling Psychology, Associate
Chairperson, Department of Psychology with portfolios in Staffing, Research
& Equity
1997-1998 Acting Associate Dean, Boston College, School of Education.
1996-1997 Department Chair, Department of Counseling, Developmental and
Educational Psychology and Research Methods, Boston College,
School of Education.
1992-1997 Associate Professor and Coordinator: Human Development Program,
Boston College, School of Education. Courses taught: Personality Theories;
Psychology of Adolescence; Culture and Psychology; Participatory Action
Research: Gender, Race, and Power; Child and Society; Alternative Strategies
for Working with Children in Contexts of Organized Violence; Psychology
of Women.
1991-1992 Visiting Scholar, Jesuit Institute, Boston College.
1989-1990 Research leave. Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental, Buenos
Aires, Argentina & Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de
Salud, Guatemala. Research/training workshops: Talleres creativos para
el trabajo con niños afectados por el terror de Estado [Creative
workshops for working with children affected by state terror].
1988-1991 Associate Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College,
Providence. Courses taught: Social Psychology; Psychology of Women; Psychology
of Race & Class; Women and Men: Psychological Perspectives on Gender;
Adolescent Psychology.
1984-1988 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Rhode Island College, Providence.
Summer, 1988 Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud. Chimaltenango,
Guatemala. Seminario/Taller: Estrategias de prevención y rol de
los promotores en salud mental [Prevention and the role of mental health
promoters], with J.J. Fariña and Rosa Maciel.
1983-1984 Instructor, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts,
Boston. Course taught: Psychology and Women.
1981-1984 Instructor, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA. Courses taught: Viewpoints on Insanity, with William Ryan; Women
and Men: Understanding the Self in Social Context; Idea of Insanity.
1980-1981 Research Intern, Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe
College, Cambridge, MA. Development of coding systems for coding social
psychological and personality variables from TATs and open-ended interview
data. Specific statistical experience: anova, regression, factor analysis
using SPSS, and Datatext.
1979-1980 Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA. Course: Major Themes in Psychological Thought.
1978-1978 Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Boston College, Chestnut
Hill, MA. Experimental research in social psychology. Skills include research
design, use of video equipment, and data analysis, using SPSS and BMD.
1977-1978 Consultant and clinical intern. Advisory Resource Center, Boston
University, MA.
1977-1978 Instructor. Community Mental Health Program, Laselle Junior
College. Course taught: Community Resources.
1975-1976 Faculty-Staff. Seminary Quarter at Grailville, Loveland, OH.
Summers.
1973-1977 Coordinator of Women's Programs and Instructor in Applied Theology.
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA. Courses taught: Ministry and Human
Sexuality; Ministry: Women Working with Women.
PUBLICATIONS
Lykes, M. B.
& Mallona, A. (2007). Towards transformational liberation: Participatory
action research and activist praxis. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.),
The SAGE Handbook of Action Research II. London: SAGE Publications
Ltd., pp. 260-292.
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.
Lykes, M.B. & Coquillon, E. (2007). Participatory and Action Research
and Feminisms: Towards Transformative Praxis. In Sharlene Hesse-Biber
(Ed.).Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis. Thousand
Oaks, CA: SAGE, pp. 297-326.
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. & Lazarus, S. (2006) Indigenous and Euro-American Psychologies:
Resources and Barriers for Generating Knowledge and Practice. International
Psychology Bulletin, 10 (3).
Lykes, M.B. (2006). Forward. In Carlos Martín Beristain. Humanitarian
Aid Work: A Critical Approach. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press.
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.
Durand, T. M.
& Lykes, M.B. (2006). Think globally, act locally: A global perspective
on mobilizing adults for positive youth development. In Gil Clary and
Jean E. Rhodes (Eds.). Mobilizing Adults for Positive Youth Development:
Strategies for Closing the Gap between Beliefs and Behaviors (The
Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society).
New York, NY: Springer. pp. 233-254.
Qin, D. &
Lykes, M. B. (2006). Reweaving a fragmented web of self: A grounded theory
of self-understanding among Chinese women students in USA . International
Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, 19(2), 177-200.
Lykes, M. B.
(2004). Virtues and vocation: Community psychology and social change.
In Geoffrey Nelson & Isaac Prilleltensky (Eds.). Community psychology:
In pursuit of liberation and well-being. London : Palgrave MacMillan.
De Jesus, Maria
& Lykes, M. B. (2004). Racism and “whiteness” in transitions
to peace:Indigenous peoples, human rights, and the struggle for justice
. In Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell and April Burns (Eds.). (2
nd ed.). Off White: Readings in power, privilege, and resistance.
Taylor & Francis. pp. 331-344.
Ngonyama ka 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.
McIntyre, A
& Lykes, M.B. (2004). Weaving words and pictures in/through feminist
participatory action research. In Mary Brydon-Miller, Patricia Maguire
& Alice McIntyre (Eds.). Traveling Companions: Feminisms and Participatory
Action Research. pp. 82-111.
Lykes, M. B.
(Fall,2003). Developing an activist liberatory community psychology: One
step at a time. The Community Psychologist, 36(4), 39-42.
Williams, J.W.
& Lykes, M. B. (2003). Bridging theory and practice: Using reflexive
cycles in feminist PAR. Feminism and Psychology, 13(3), 287-294.
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.
Lykes, M.B.
(2001) A critical re-reading of PTSD from a cross-cultural/community perspective.
In Derek Hook and Gillian Eagle (Eds.), Psychopathology and social
prejudice. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press/JUTA, pp. 92-108.
Lykes, M.B.
& Qin, D. (2001). Individualism and collectivism. Encyclopedia
of Gender. Editor in Chief: Judith Worrell. San Diego, CA: Academic
Press, pp. 625-631.
Lykes, M.B.
(2001) Activist participatory research and the arts with rural Maya women:
Interculturality and situated meaning making. In Deborah L. Tolman and
Mary Brydon-Miller (Eds.), From Subjects to Subjectivities: A Handbook
of Interpretive and Participatory Methods. New York: New York University
Press, pp. 183-199.
Lykes, M. B.
(2001). Human rights violations as structural violence. In D.J. Christie,
R.V. Wagner & D. DuN. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict and violence:
Peace psychology for the 21st century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, pp. 158-167.
Lykes, M. B.
(2001). Creative arts and photography in participatory action research
in Guatemala. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of Action
Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage pp. 363-371.
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.
Lykes, M.B.
(2000) Possible contributions of a psychology of liberation: Whither health
and human rights? Journal of Health Psychology 5(3), 383-397.
Haney, W. &
Lykes, M. B. (2000). Practice, participatory research and creative research
designs: The continuing evolution of ethical guidelines for research.
In F. Sherman & B. Torbert (Eds.), Transforming social inquiry,
transforming social action: New paradigms for crossing the theory/practice
divide in universities and communities. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Michel Faría,
J.J. & Lykes, M.B. (2000). Cuestiones éticas y epistemológicas
ante la experimentación psicológica con niños [Ethical
and epistemological questions in psychological experiments with children].
En J. J. Michel Faría & Carlos Guiti?rrez (Eds.), La encrucijada
de la filiación: Technologías reproductivas y restitución
de niños [Childhood at the crossroads: Reproductive technologies
and the restitucion of children]. Buenos Aires-Mexico: Grupo Editorial
Lumen. pp. 25-31. An earlier version of this text was included in the
Actas del Congreso Nacional de Ética. Asociación
Argentina de Investigaciones Éticas [Proceedings from the National
Ethics Congress. Argentine Association of Ethics in Research]. Buenos
Aires: Universidad de Argentina.
Lykes, M. B.
(1999), in collaboration with A. Caba Mateo, J. Chávez Anay, I.
A. Laynez Caba, U. Ruiz and Joan W.Williams. Telling stories & rethreading
lives: Community education, women's development and social change among
the Maya Ixil. International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory
and Practice, 2(3), 207-227.
Lykes, M. B.
(1999). Doing psychology at the periphery: Constructing just alternatives
to war and peace. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology,
5(1), 27-36.
McIntyre, A.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1998). Who's the boss? Confronting whiteness and power
differences within a feminist mentoring relationship in participatory
action research. Feminism and Psychology, 8(4), 427-444.
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.
Arditti, R &
Lykes, M.B. (1997). La labor de las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The work
of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. En Restitución de
niños: Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [Restitution of children:
The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]. Buenos Aires, AR: Editorial
Universitaria de Buenos Aires, pp. 109-132.
Lykes, M. B.
(1997). Activist participatory research among the Maya of Guatemala: Constructing
meanings from situated knowledge. Journal of Social Issues, 53(4),
725-746.
Brabeck, M.
M., et al., including Lykes, M. B. (1997). Changing the culture of the
university to engage in outreach scholarship. In R. M. Lerner & L.
K. Simon (Eds.), Creating the new outreach university for America's
youth and families: Building university-community collaborations for the
twenty-first century. New York: Garland Publishing.
Lykes, M. B.
(1997). Cross-cultural and transnational responses to human rights and
mental health [Review of the book Pain and survival: Human rights
violations and mental health]. Peace and Conflict: Journal of
Peace Psychology, 3(1), 105-107.
Lykes, M. B.,
Banuazizi, A., Liem, R., & Morris, M. (Eds.). (1996). Myths about
the powerless: Contesting social inequalities. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press. This volume includes an introductory chapter by the
four editors and the following original chapters:
Lykes, M.
B. Meaning making in a context of genocide and silencing.
Lykes, M.
B. Conversation with William Ryan.
Lykes, M. B.,
& Mallona, A. (1996). Surfacing our-selves: ?Gringa, white - mestiza,
brown? In M. Fine, M. Wong, L. Weis, & M. Powell (Eds.), Off-white.
New York: Routledge.
Lykes, M. B.
(1995). La voluntad de resistir: La conservacion del "self"
y la cultura guatemalteca [The will to resist: Preservation of self and
culture in Guatemala]. Psique y Sociedad, 2(1,2).
Lykes, M. B.
(1994). The psychosocial effects of war on children. In A study guide
for If the mango tree could speak. Washington, DC: Network
Educators of America.
Lykes, M. B.
(1994). [Review of the book Women and human rights]. Journal
of Moral Education, 23(3), 364-366.
Lykes, M. B.
(1994). Speaking against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return.
In C. E. Franz & A. J. Stewart (Eds.), Women creating lives: Identities,
resilience, and resistance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Lykes, M. B.
(1994). Terror, silencing, and children: International multidisciplinary
collaboration with Guatemalan Maya communities. Social Science and
Medicine, 38(4), 543-552.
Lykes, M. B.,
& multiple co-authors. (1994). Trauma psicosocial y adolescentes
Latinoamericanos: Formas de accion grupal. [Psychosocial trauma
and Latin American youth: Forms of group action]. Santiago, Chile:
ILAS.
Lykes, M. B.
(1994). I. Whose meeting at which crossroads? A Response to Brown and
Gilligan. Feminism and Psychology, 4(3), 345-349.
Arditti, R.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1993). The disappeared children of Argentina: The
work of the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving
beyond fear: Women, children, and human rights in Latin America (pp.
168-175). Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press.
Lykes, M. B.
(1993). "Children in the storm": Psychosocial trauma in Latin
America. In M. Agosin (Ed.), Surviving beyond fear: Women, children,
and human rights in Latin America (pp. 152-161). Fredonia, NY: White
Pine Press.
Lykes, M. B.
(1993). Niños y violencia política: Dossier temético
de acceso bibliográfico [Children and political violence: Review
essay and annotated bibliography]. Buenos Aires: CEDDI.
Lykes, M. B.
(1993). [Review of the book Gender constructs and social issues].
Contemporary Psychology, 38(8), 868-869.
Lykes, M. B.,
Brabeck, M., Ferns, T., & Radan, A. (1993). Human rights and mental
health among Latin American women in situations of state sponsored violence:
Bibliographic resources. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 17(4),
525-544.
Lykes, M.B.(1993).
Community research crosses national boundaries: Multiple meanings of long-term
residence in particular spaces. American Journal of Community Psychology,
21(4), 487-493.
Arditti, R.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1992). "Recovering identity": The work of
the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Women's Studies International
Forum, 15(4), 461-471.
Lykes, M. B.
(1992, Julio-Agosto). Talleres creativos para un trabajo con niños
[Creative workshops for working with children]. ASECSA. El Informador
Comunitario, 144, 6-8.
Melville, M.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1992). Guatemalan Indian children and the sociocultural
effects of government-sponsored terrorism. Social Science and Medicine,
34(5), 533-548.
Arditti, R.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1991). Las abuelas de Plaza de Mayo [The grandmothers
of the Plaza de Mayo]. In X. Bunster (Ed.), La mujer ausente: Derechos
humanos en el mundo [The absent woman: Human rights in the world]
(pp. 135-144). ISIS Internacional, Ediciones de las Mujeres, No. 15, Santiago,
Chile.
Lykes, M.B.(1991).
Children in the storm: Communities respond through action-research. The
Community Psychologist, 25 (1), 11-13.
Lykes, M. B.
(1991). Perspectives on gender: Difference, disadvantage, or dominance?
[Review of the books Making a difference and Theoretical
perspectives on sexual difference]. Contemporary Psychology,
36(12), 1072-1073.
Lykes, M. B.,
Maciel, R., Iborra, M., Suardi, L., & Costa, E. (1991). Jugando a
recrear nuestra historia [Playing to recreate our history]. In E. G. Mendez
& M. del Carmen Bianchi (Eds.), Ser niño en America Latina
[To be a child in Latin America] (pp. 369-373). Buenos Aires:
UNICEF.
Lykes, M. B.
(1990, Octubre-Diciembre). Ignacio Martín-baró: Un hombre
para/dentro de otros: Reflexiones en homenaje a un amigo, colega, y mentor
[Ignacio Martín-baró: A man with/for others]. Revista
de Psicología de El Salvador, 38, 370-375.
Lykes, M. B.
(1990, October). War tears at children's emotions. Response Magazine,
United Methodist Church, 25-29.
Lykes, M. B.,
& Liem, R. (1990). Human rights and mental health work in the United
States: Lessons from Latin America. Journal of Social Issues, 46(3),
151-165.
Arditti, R.,
& Lykes, M. B. (1989). The missing children of Argentina. Sojourner:
The Women's Forum, 14(5), 17-18.
Lykes, M. B.
(1989). The caring self: Social experiences of power and powerlessness.
In M. Brabeck (Ed.), Who cares? Theoretical and ethical perspectives
(pp. 164-179). New York: Praeger.
Lykes, M. B.
(1989). Dialogue with Guatemalan Indian women: Critical perspectives on
constructing collaborative research. In R. Unger (Ed.), Representations:
Social constructions of gender (pp. 167-185). Amityville, NY: Baywood.
[Reprinted in Gergen, M., & Davis, S. (Eds.). (1996). Toward a
new psychology of gender: A reader. New York: Routledge.]
Lykes, M. B.,
& Faría, J. J. (1989). Can the unofficial story have a happy
ending? The restitution of children in Argentina. LINKS: Central America
Health Report, 6(1), 10-11.
Lykes, M. B.,
& Hellstedt, J. C. (1987). Field training in community social psychology:
A competency based self directed learning model. Journal of Community
Psychology, 15, 417 428.
Lykes, M. B.,
& Stewart, A. J. (1986). Evaluating the feminist challenge in personality
and social psychology: 1963 1983. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 10(4),
393-412.
Stewart, A.
J., & Lykes, M. B. (Eds.). (1985). Gender and personality.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Originally published as a special issue
of the Journal of Personality, 53(2), with two original chapters:
Stewart, A.
J., & Lykes, M. B. Conceptualizing gender in personality theory
and research: An introduction.
Lykes, M.
B. Gender and individualistic versus collectivist notions about the
self.
Lykes, M. B.
(1983). Discrimination and coping in the lives of Black women: Analyses
of oral history data. Journal of Social Issues, 39(3), 79 100.
Stewart, A.
J., Lykes, M. B., & LaFrance, M. (1982). Educated women's career patterns:
Separating social and developmental changes. Journal of Social Issues,
38(1), 97 117.
Cornwall Collective
(Lykes, M. B., & others, Eds.). (1980). Your daughters shall prophesy:
Feminist alternatives in theological education. New York: Pilgrim
Press. This volume includes the following original chapters:
Bosquet, J.,
Lykes, M. B., & Smith-Penniman, A. (1980). Constituency: What we
learn is shaped by those with whom we learn.
Lykes, M.
B., & Martin, J. (1980). Still making the road as we go.
SCORING MANUAL, TRAINING MATERIALS AND FINAL REPORTS
Lykes, M. B. (1991). Consultant to Patricia
Goudvis, professional filmmaker, in preparation of training video,
Trabajando para un futuro mejor: Talleres creativos con niños [Working for a
better future: Creative workshops with children], with Guatemalan health
promoters.
Lykes, M. B., & Maciel, R. in collaboration with
Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud. (1991). Preparation of three
popular education pamphlets: El dibujo [drawing]; El juego y la creatividad
[play and creativity] ; El duelo [loss and mourning].
Lykes, M. B. & Suardi, L., in collaboration with
the Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental and the Asociación de Servicios
Comunitarios de Salud, Chimaltenango, Guatemala. (1991).Training materials
for work with Guatemalan health promoters, "Taller creativo para el trabajo
con niños: Una prevención en salud [Creative workshops for children: A
mental health prevention]."
Lykes, M. B. with Baker, S., Mishler, E., &
Steinitz, V. (1989). Threatened lives: Undocumented Central American
refugees. Final report for Centro Presente, Cambridge, MA.
Lykes, M. B. (1984). Scoring manual for social
apperception. Boston College.
Lykes, M. B. (1981). Practicum program community-social
psychology -- Masters program. University of Lowell, Lowell, MA.
Lykes, M. B. (1980). Scoring manual for orientations to control. Henry A. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College.
Listed in Health Instrument File, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED
September,
2007
Montréal, Canada |
Latin American Studies Association. Gender and Psychosocial
Approaches to Reparations Processes in Post-Conflict |
August,
2007
San Francisco, CA |
American
Psychological Association Annual Convention
Critical Explorations of Participation and Performance:
Visually-infused Feminist/Activist Research
What are the Effects of Psychological Torture and Abuse? Invited address:
Ethics and Interrogations: Confronting the Challenge Program
Multicultural-feminist community research in global perspective:
Challenges to transformational praxis. With Kelly Rabenstein, Poster. |
March
2007
Amherst, MA |
Feminist-infused
participatory action research and universal human rights: Challenges
from field work in rural Guatemala and urban USA. Psychology of Peace
& Prevention of Violence/Department Colloquium, University of
Massachusetts/Amherst |
October,
2006
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Racism,
Resilience, and Refugees: Contributions of a human rights framework
to community-based organizing, activism, and rebuilding in Post-Katrina
New Orleans, with Erzulie Coquillon. Diversity Challenge 2006: Do
Immigrants Catch or Carry Race and Culture? Boston College |
August,
2006
New Orleans, LA |
American Psychological
Association Annual Convention
Liberation psychology challenges U.S. psychologists: Ethics, torture,
and Guantánamo, with Joan Huser Liem. INVITED PRESENTATION,
2006, Symposium: Human Rights, Torture, and Professional Responsibility
Human
Rights Discourse, Liberation Psychology, and U.S.-based
Activism, with Erzulie Coquillon. Poster.
|
June, 2006
Buenos Aires, AR |
Arte y Catastrophe: Las mujeres Maya Ixil de Chajul: Sufrimiento social
pos-guerra y FotoVoz. International Society of Traumatic Stress
and World Psychiatric Congress: Section on Disaster Intervention |
June, 2006
Buenos Aires, AR |
Prevencion, Intervencion y Reconstruccion en desastres: Reconstruccion
y Salud Mental: Intervenciones psicosociales para la elaboracion del
trauma politico, la generacion de sujetos activos y nuevo entramado
de realidades sociales. . International Society of Traumatic Stress
and World Psychiatric Congress: Section on Disaster Intervention |
March 2006
Cambridge, MA |
Keynote Invited Speaker: Narrating survival, representing
gender: Interrogating the politics and praxis of feminist-infused
participatory action research. 1st Annual Graduate Consortium Womenfs
Studies Conference: Shifting Gender Identities in the Face of War,
Globalization, and Natural Disaster |
March 2006
Middletown, CT |
Critical community praxis and feminist-infused participatory action
research: Surviving war, crossing cultures, re-telling lives
Psychology Department Colloquium, Wesleyan University |
March, 2006
Hollins, VA |
Invited Address: Hollins University, Founders Day
Looking for activists in unlikely places: One white Southern womanfs
journey |
August, 2005
Washington , DC |
American
Psychological Association
Lykes, M.B. & Lazarus, S. Indigenous and Euro-American psychologies:
Resources and barriers for generating knowledge and practice. Paper
presented in symposium: The globalization of psychology: Implications
of the 2004 APA resolution on culture and gender awareness
Assessing cultures of peace: The case of Guatemala . Roundtable presentation
and discussion |
July, 2005
Philadelphia |
Human
Rights and Psychosocial Work; Case Examples from the Field
2005 Summer Institute, Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical
Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
|
June, 2005
Champaign-Urbana |
Keynote
Invited Speaker: Narratives and representations of survival:
The politics and praxis of action research and liberatory community
psychology in a post-9/11 world; and, Discussant on Symposium: School
Change and Participatory Action Research: Challenges and Encouragement.
Society for Community Research and Action |
October 2004
Boston , MA |
Diversity
Challenge 2004: Making Race and Culture Matter in Community-focused
Interventions
Invited Speaker: Critical issues in community-based
collaborations: The politics and praxis of “crossing cultures”
in participatory action research
Workshop presenter: Haitian women in action: Focus groups as a resource
for developing women’s leadership, with Carline Desiré,
Ruth Dube, Christie Menager, Rebecca Johnson |
October 2004
Guatemala |
1er Congreso Regional de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología.
Taller/Workshop: Investigación acción participativa
con mujeres en comunidades de pos-guerra: Una experiencia multicultural
[Participatory action research with community women in post-war contexts],
con Ana Caba Mateo y Gaspar Ijom Pacheco |
August 2004
Honolulu, Hawaii |
American Psychological Association.
Liberation Psychology as Praxis: Innovative Responses to Human Rights
Abuses, with Ramsay Liem & Maria de Jesus, Poster Narrating the
future, negotiating the past: Maya women’s storytelling and
community survival. Paper presented in Symposium: Narrating war, re-storying
lives: Korean and Guatemalan war survivors story the future |
October, 2003
Lewiston, Maine |
Las mujeres Maya
Ixiles: Trabajando para un futuro mejor [Maya Ixil Women: Working
for a better future]; Human rights,war, and post-war reconstruction
in local communities. Invited presentations. Bates College. |
October, 2003
Bellagio, Italy |
Reparations in
Post-war contexts: Reparations and Mental Health. Invited participant
and presenter, International Centre for Transitional Justice, NYC,
Bellagio Seminar. |
October, 2003
Washington, DC |
War's violence
against women and humanitarian aid: Ethical dilemmas from the field.
Rethinking Gender and War, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
Conference. |
October, 2003
Belfast, N. Ireland |
Reweaving community
in 'post-war' Guatemala: Mayan Ixil women, survival, and change. Invited
presentation: Towards a Better Future Building Healthy Communities,
North and West Belfast Health & Social Services Trust and the
Eastern Health & Social Services Board. |
August, 2003
Toronto, Canada
|
American Psychological
Association
Presentation: Participatory Action Research and Cultural Psychology:Internationalizing
Psychological Praxis in the 21st Century.
Interactive Symposium:
Participant/Discussant. Towards a critical and liberatory psychology
for a new millenium: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean.
With Wanda Rodríguez Arocho
Chair and discussant:
Psychology in the age of identity: One or many psychologies? With
James Statman |
July, 2003
Philadelphia |
Local Women's Initiatives
and Action Research: Workshop 2003 Summer Institute, Solomon Asch
Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict , University of Pennsylvania
|
April, 2003
Cambridge, MA |
'Because of my
participation, I am not like I was before': PAR, post-war, and local
communities. Invited presentation: Children, Families and Trauma:
The World After 9-11. Sponsored by Harvard Children's Initiative:
Children's Global Mental Health Working Group |
March, 2003
Washington, DC |
Constructing a
Shared Social Meaning and Response to Terror-ism: Lessons from Ignacio
Martín-baró's Liberation Psychology, with Maria De Jesus
& Ramsay Liem. Twentieth Anniversary Conference on Social Responsibility
in the Twenty-First Century. Psychologists for Social Responsibility.
|
January, 2003
Ann Arbor, MI |
Crossing cultures/building
bridges/contesting power: Maya women of Chajul in post-war Guatemala.
Invited address: Symposium: Women in the Aftermath of War: Disruption,
Displacement, and Refugees. Institute for Research on Women and Gender,
University of Michigan. |
October, 2002
Guatemala |
Taller/Workshop.
Desarrollando respuestas a los efectos psicosocial de guerra: Capacitación
de promotores de salud mental [Developing responses to the psychosocial
effects of war: Training for Mental Health Promoters]. GTZ-ECAP-USAC
|
August, 2002
Chicago, IL |
Truth and Reconciliation:
Re-threading Community in Trauma's WakePaper presented at the American
Psychological Association Meeting.
Discussant
for invited address: Purification and power: The psycho-political
roots of religious terrorism, by Richard Rubenstein
Discussant for
Moderated Poster Discussion Session: Global Perspectives in Social
Justice and Terrorism |
July, 2002
Chestnut Hill, MA
|
Multicultural education:
Lessons from war zones. For the University of the Middle East ? Boston
College, July 2002. Invited presenter |
July, 2002
Orono, Maine |
Conference on Personal
and Community Reconstruction, Resilience, and Empowerment in times
of Ethnopolitical Violence. Psychologist for Social Responsibility.
Participant and presenter. |
July, 2002
Guatemala |
Reconfiguraciócn
psicosocial [Psychosocial reconstruction]. Quinto Encuentro (3 días).
Maestria: Psicología social y violencia política [Lectures
for 3 days in MA: Social psychology and political violence] Universidad
de San Carlos y ECAP |
July, 2002
Guatemala |
Taller . Enfrentando
los efectos psicosocial de guerra: Capacitación de promotores
de salud mental [Workshop: Confronting the psychosocial effects of
war: Training for Mental Health Promoters]. GTZ |
June, 2002
Toronto, Canada |
(De)constructing
terror-isms: Toward a theory and practice informed by Ignacio Martín-baró's
liberation psychology. With Maria De Jesus and M. Brinton Lykes. 4th
Conference of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
(SPSSI): Understanding and Addressing Disparities: International Approaches
|
June, 2002
Johannesburg |
Participatory Action
Research: An introductory workshop ? 1 week. University of the Witwatersrand,
CHESP program |
June, 2002
Johannesburg |
Community Psychology
Workshop ? 1 week. MA Program, University of Witwatersrand, School
of Human and Community Development |
May, 2002
Madrid |
Niños/as
en situaciones de violencia política: Psicología comunitaria
Diploma en Salud Mental en situaciones de violencia política
y catástrofes [Children in situations of political violence:
Community psychology. Two day workshop in Mental Health in Situations
of Political Violence and Catastrophe Diploma Program]. |
November, 2001
Johannesburg |
Creativity as a
Resource in Community-based Work: Experiences of War, and Peacemaking
in Guatemala. Healing through Creative Arts, EED and South Africa
CSVR. Invited address. |
October, 2001
New Orleans, LA |
Bridges to Justice:
Building Community in a Global World. Academy of the Sacred Heart,
Invited address. |
September, 2001
San Sebastián,
Donastia, Euskadi |
La experiencia
de Suráfrica e Irlanda del Norte: Un enfoque psicosocial. [South
Africa and the North of Ireland: A psychosocial analysis]. Violencia,Apoyo
a las Víctimas y Reconstrucción Social. Experiencias
Internacionales y el desaf?o vasco [Violence, Victim Support, and
Social Reconstruction: International experiences and the Basque challenge].
Ponencia invitada [Invited address] Universidad del Pais Vasco. |
October, 2000
Kleinmond, South Africa |
Convenor: Workshops
on Participatory Action Research and on Community Psychology in South-South
Dialogue, 10 day workshop/conference. Best practices in confronting
globalization and state-sponsored political violence. 40 participants
from Asia, Africa & Latin America. |
|
September, 2000
Buenos Aires, AR |
Fronteras, territorios
y límites de la identidad [Frontiers, territories and limits
of identity]. Ponencia principal. Taller Regional sobre ?El Derecho
a la Identidad de Niños y Adolescentes? en el MERCOSUR, Implicancias
y Recomendaciones [Invited keynote address, Regional workshop on ?Children's
and Adolescents? Rights to Identity? in the MERCOSUR, Implications
and Recommendations]. |
|
September, 2000
Guatemala, Guatemala |
Reflexiones sobre
los procesos de crear Voces e imágenes: Mujeres Mayas Ixiles
de Chajul/Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of Chajul [Reflecions
on the proceses of creating Voices and images: Mayan Ixil women of
Chajul]. Invited presentation at book presentation/launching. |
|
May, 2000 Johannesburg,
SA |
Participatory Action
Research as a Resource in Reconciliation Processes Lenasia Social
and Health Sciences Seminar Series, Centre for Peace Action, UNISA |
March, 2000 Johannesburg,
South Africa |
Moving beyond counselling:
Challenges in dealing with the impact of large scale political trauma
- Guatemala. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
|
September, 1999
Johannesburg,
South Africa |
A critical re-reading
of PTSD from a cross-cultural/community perspective. Fifth Annual
Qualitative Research Conference: Normality and pathology in late 20th
century South Africa. |
|
August, 1999 Boston,
MA |
Social class, subjectivity,
and activism: Challenges to Psychological Practice, Co-organizer of
Symposium, Chair & Discussant. American Psychological Association
Annual Meeting. |
July, 1999
St. John's Newfoundland, Canada |
Possible contributions
of a psychology of liberation: Whither health and human rights. Invited
Keynote Address. Reconstructing Health Psychology: International
Conference on Critical and Qualitative Approaches to Health Psychology |
|
June, 1999 Portadown,
Northern Ireland |
Creative workshop:
Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community,
III, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland & the Residents' Association,
Portadown, with Deahdra Butler- Henderson |
March, 1999
Boston, MA |
Urban Migrant/Immigrant
Youth as Action Researchers: Building Participatory Responses Through
Collaboration, with Angela Shartrand, Faustino Cruz, Bethy Joana Verano,
Clara Ruiz. Boston Symposium on Youth Development |
March, 1999
Boston, MA |
Participatory Action
Research & Community Photography: Cross Border Collaborations
for a Better Future among Maya Ixil Women, with Ana Caba Mateo and
Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. UMA/Boston; Boston College |
March, 1999
Storrs, CT |
Rethreading community
among Maya Ixil Women: Collaborative Re-presentations of Survival
and Change. Invited Keynote Address, with Ana Caba
Mateo and Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. University of Connecticut, Women
and Gender Conference. |
March, 1999
New York, NY |
Participatory Photography
and Action Research: Cross Border Collaborations in Post-War Guatemala,
with Ana Caba Mateo and Isabel Ana Laynez Caba. The Graduate School
and University Center, City University of New York. |
August, 1998
San Francisco, CA |
Recrafting stories:
Collaborative Representations of Survival as Ixil women, II. Paper
presented at the American Psychological Association.
With Lisa R. Jackson,
Bridgitte de la Cruz, Faustino Cruz, Angela Shartrand, and Kalina
Brabeck. Diversifying Participatory Action Research Teams: Implications
for the Research Process. Paper presented at the American Psychological
Association. |
|
June 22, 1998 Johannesburg,
South Africa |
Re-membering Bodies,
Re-threading Lives: Culture and Creativity in Trauma's Wake. University
of Witwatersrand. |
|
May 19-20, 1998
Boston, MA |
Creative Resources
for Working with Survivors of Organized Violence and Oppression in
a Context of Ongoing Fear, Training Workshop with members of WAVE
Trauma Center. PeaceWatch Ireland and Boston College, with Deahdra
Butler-Henderson. |
January 26-30,
1998
Portadown, Northern Ireland |
Creative workshop:
Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community,
II, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland, AISLING, and the Residents'
Association, Portadown, with Deahdra Butler-Henderson. |
|
December 15, 1997
Brookline, MA |
Anthropological
and cultural perspectives on the adaptation to trauma, Trauma Center
Lecture Series, Arbour-HRI Hospital. |
August, 1997
Chicago, IL |
Recrafting stories:
Collaborative re-presentations of survival among Ixil women, I. Paper
presented at the American Psychological Association.
Women
and peacebuilding ? Global, cultural, and gender perspectives. Discussant,
American Psychological Association.
With Faustino Cruz,
Alice McIntyre & Angela Shartrand. Engaging in participatory action
research: Being both insider and outsider. Paper presented at the
American Psychological Association.
Constructing selves
in transition ? Women crossing economic and geographic borders. Chair,
American Psychological Association. |
|
April 1-6, 1997
Portadown, Northern Ireland |
Creative workshop:
Grief and trauma with community leaders of the Drumcree community,
I, Coordinated with Peace Watch Ireland and AISLING, and the Residents'
Association, Portadown, with Deahdra Butler-Henderson. |
|
March 21, 1997
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Culture, ethnicity
and violence: Mayan threads for weaving meanings of war and survival.
Boston Area Culture Workshop, Boston College. |
|
November, 1996
Worcester, MA |
Recovering memory
and re-constructing community: Peacemaking in Guatemala. Invited public
lecture, Violence, Non-Violence, and Conflict Resolution Program,
Assumption College. |
|
June/July, 1996
Guatemala |
Taller sobre salud
mental desde una perspectiva multicultural. [Workshop on mental health
from a multicultural perspective], Redd Barna, Hotel Conquistador
Ramada. |
June, 1996
Guatemala |
Taller sobre el
manejo del stress en el proceso de paz [Workshop on stress in the
peace process for NGO workers], Redd Barna. Hotel Conquistador Ramada. |
May, 1996
Cambridge, MA |
Truth commissions
in the process of peace making and democratization. Harvard Law School--Human
Rights Program of World Peace Foundation. Invited participant
of working symposium. Proceedings published. |
April, 1996
New York |
Lykes, M. B. with
Alice McIntyre & Pat Calderwood. Participatory action research
and the university: Democratizing teaching and learning, AERA Annual
Meeting. |
|
December, 1995
Boston, MA |
Boston College
Baccalaureate Address. |
|
November, 1995
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Thinking
culturally about children in contexts of state-sponsored violence
and war. Invited presenter, Developmental and Behavioral Advocacy
Seminar, Boston City Hospital. |
October, 1995
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Reflections
on Anti-racist teaching in the Boston College environment. Presentation,
Interdisciplinary Studies Potluck Supper, Boston College. |
August, 1995
New York |
Lykes, M. B. Contrasting
images, contrasting realities: Violence, youth and identity. Chair,
organizer and discussant, American Psychological Association. |
August, 1995
New York |
Lykes, M. B. Speaking
against the silence: One Maya woman's exile
and return. Invited presenter, American Psychological
Association. |
August, 1995
New York |
Lykes, M. B. International
dialogue on gender, race, ethnicity and coping. Invited discussant,
American Psychological Association. |
March, 1995
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Guatemala:
Mayan reality in an ongoing struggle. Community Church Center, with
Gregorio Tum. |
February, 1995
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Cultural
perspectives on the construction of self. Symposium discussant, Boston
Area Cultural Psychology Forum and Boston College Psychology Department
Forum. |
|
October, 1994 Boston,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. Community-based
interventions for child survivors of war. National Center for Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder, Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. |
|
September, 1993
Germany |
Lykes, M. B. Continuities
and discontinuities in war against the Maya: Terror and voice among
child survivors. Invited co-speaker, keynote address.
Congress on Children, War, and Persecution. |
|
August, 1993 Toronto,
Canada |
Lykes, M. B. Speaking
against the silence: One Maya woman's exile and return, American Psychological
Association. |
|
August, 1993 Toronto,
Canada |
Lykes, M. B. Human
rights and refugee issues. Invited participant, Conversation
Hour, American Psychological Association. |
|
August, 1993 Toronto,
Canada |
Lykes, M. B. Religious
identity and community in adaptation to political violence. Invited
discussant, American Psychological Association. |
July, 1993
Santiago, Chile |
Lykes, M. B. Effects
of war on children in Central America. Invited keynote address,
InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXIV Congress. |
July, 1993
Santiago, Chile |
Lykes, M. B. Consecuencias
psicológicas y sociales de la represión política
y la guerra en niños y jóvenes de cuatro países
Latinoamericanos [Psychological and social consequences of political
repression and war in children and youth of four Latin American countries].
InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXIV Congress. |
July, 1993
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Relaciones
de poder y género en la generación de testimonios y
narraciones: Perspectivas de una científica social [Relations
of power and gender in testimonies and narratives: A social scientist's
perspective]. C?tedra de Psicología Política y el Seminario
de Ética y Derechos Humanos. Invited address, Faculty of Psychology,
University of Buenos Aires. |
April, 1993
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Children
and war: The effects of state violence on our world's youth. Faculty/Student
Discussion. Amnesty International, Boston College. |
March, 1993
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Participatory
action research with Maya children and youth in Guatemala. Invited
address, Adult Education Series, Boston University. |
|
October, 1992 Chestnut
Hill, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Children
and violence. 40th Anniversary Celebration School of Education, Boston
College. |
|
September, 1992
Los Angeles, CA |
Lykes, M. B. Red
de derechos humanos y salud mental: Una experiencia de colaboración
entre profesionales de ciencias sociales de America Latina y USA:
Intercambio científico y solidaridad activa [Networks in human
rights and mental health - A collaboration between Latin American
and U.S. social scientists: Scientific exchange and solidarity]. Latin
American Studies Association, XVI International Congress. |
|
August, 1992 Washington,
DC |
Lykes, M. B. Thinking
through ethnicity and gender: Crafting community amidst structural
violence. American Psychological Association Centennial Convention. |
|
May, 1992 Washington,
DC |
Lykes, M. B. The
ethics and politics of treatment of war-traumatized children. Invited
address, Coalition of Children-in-War and Communal Violence. |
April, 1992
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Play,
creativity, and human rights: Developing work with children in situations
of organized violence, with Luciano Suardi. School of Education, Boston
College. |
April, 1992
Chestnut Hill, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Justice
for children at risk: Training mental health workers in a context
of state-sponsored violence, Annual Conference, Jesuit Institute,
Boston College. |
April, 1992
Ann Arbor, MI |
Lykes, M. B. State-sponsored
terror and women's rights: Voices from Latin America. Invited address:
Celebrating 20 years of Women's Studies at Michigan, University of
Michigan. |
April, 1992
Corpus Christi, TX |
Lykes, M. B. Terror,
silence, and voice: Participatory action research with Maya children
and youth in Guatemala. Invited keynote address, Psi Chi: The National
Honor Society in Psychology, Southwestern Psychological Association
Annual Convention. |
January, 1992
San Salvador, ES |
Lykes, M. B. Psicología
comunitaria: Perspectivas alternativas para la práctica de
la psicología hacia la paz [Community psychology: Alternative
strategies for the practice of psychology in the process of peace].
Workshop, Department of Psychology, Central American University, José
Simeón Cañas. |
|
December, 1991
Bronx, NY |
Lykes, M. B. Children
and war in Guatemala, Invited address followed by workshop,
Fordham University, Campus Ministry. |
|
November, 1991
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Cuestiones
Éticas en la investigación psicológica: Algunos
interrogantes sobre las relaciones entre la ciencia y la política
[Ethical questions and psychological research: Exploring relations
between science and politics]. Faculty of Psychology, University of
Buenos Aires. |
|
November, 1991
Santiago, Chile |
Lykes, M. B. Trabajando
para un futuro mejor: Talleres creativos con niños en una situación
de guerra [Working for a better future: Creative workshops for children
in contexts of war]. International Conference on Centres, Institutions
and Individuals concerned with the Care of Victims of Organized Violence:
Mental Health, Political Repression, and Human Rights. |
June, 1991
Tempe, AZ |
Lykes, M. B. Community
approaches to mental health care for children of war: International,
multidisciplinary collaboration in action-research. Invited keynote
address, Third Biennial Conference on Community Research and Action,
Division 27, American Psychological Association. |
|
November, 1990
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Reflections
commemorating the continuing struggle of the Salvadoran people. November,
16, 1990. Invited address, Boston College. Searching the Silence:
In Commemoration of the November 16 Assassinations at the University
of Central America, San Salvador, 1989. |
|
October, 1990 Boston,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. Caring
for Guatemalan Indian children of war: Mental health
strategies. Invited address, Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College.
|
|
October, 1990 Kingston,
RI |
Lykes, M. B. Children
of war: Some examples from Latin America. Invited address, University
of Rhode Island's 1990 Honors Colloquium lecture series, Defining
Human Rights and Responsibilities. |
|
August, 1990 Boston,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. Community
approaches to mental health care for children of war: Guatemalan Indian
children. American Psychological Association. |
|
August, 1990 Boston,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. Psychology
in active conflict situations: A tribute to Ignacio Martín-baró.
American Psychological Association. |
|
March/April, 1990
|
Lykes, M. B. &
Gustavo Esteban Costa. National speaking USA tour in universities,
health clinics, research centers, and solidarity groups in Washington,
DC; Amherst and Boston, MA; Ann Arbor, MI; Minneapolis, MN; Bay Area,
CA; Los Angeles, CA, and Austin, TX. Organized by the Mental Health
Committee of the Boston Committee for Health Rights in Central America
and local faculty and students. Presentations included: Mental Health
and Human Rights: Terror and the Practice of Psychology in Latin America;
Guatemalan Indian Children of War: International, Multidisciplinary
Collaboration in Action-Research in Psychology. |
November, 1989
San Jose, CR |
Lykes, M. B. El
bocón y el azul: Niños guatemaltecos y la prevención
en salud mental [Guatemalan children and preventative mental health].
International Conference of Centres, Institutions, and Individuals
Concerned with the Care of Victims of Organized Violence: Mental Health,
Political Repression and Human Rights. |
November, 1989
San José, CR |
Lykes, M. B. Red
comunitaria en salud mental y derechos humanos. [Community-based networks
in mental health and human rights]. International Conference of Centres,
Institutions, and Individuals Concerned with the Care of Victims of
Organized Violence: Mental Health, Political Repression and Human
Rights. |
October, 1989
Wellesley, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Children
of war: Guatemala and Argentina. Invited address,
Symposium: Enlightened Collaboration: Technology and Human Rights,
Wellesley College. |
|
September, 1989
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. &
Juan Jorge Faría, J. J. Experimentación con niños:
Cuestiones Éticas y psicolócgicas relativas al cambio
e identidad y a la parentalización forzada [Experimentation
with children: Ethical and psychological issues surrounding identity
within the context of forced adoptions]. Simposio Ética para
La Situación Contemporánea, Centro de Estudios Avanzados,
University of Buenos Aires. |
June, 1989
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. El
género y las bases colectivas o individualistas para la construcción
de la noción del self [Gender and collectivist and individualist
bases for the construction of notions of the self]. InterAmerican
Psychological Association, XXII Congress. |
June, 1989
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Los
niños y la familia guatemalteca ante la guerra [Children and
the Guatemalan family in contexts of war]. InterAmerican Psychological
Association, XXII Congress. |
June, 1989
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Construyendo
una Red de salud mental y derechos humanos: Análisis y respuesta
a las consecuencias del terrorismo de Estado [Building a network in
mental health and human rights: Responding to state-sponsored terror].
InterAmerican Psychological Association, XXII Congress. |
April, 1989
Kingston, RI |
Lykes, M. B. Psychosocial
trauma in a situation of war: Guatemalan Indian children (and North
American psychology), Invited address, University of Rhode Island. |
January, 1989
San Francisco, CA |
Lykes, M. B. Creating
an international Network in Mental Health and Human Rights, co hosted
with the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, Office
of Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. Coordinator and presenter.
|
|
November, 1988
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Violence
and psychosocial trauma in Guatemala. American Public Health Association
Annual Meetings. |
August, 1988
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Desarrollo
en la investigación de identidad femenina [Research on gender
and identity: A review of the literature]. Invited address, Faculty
of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires. |
August, 1988
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Violencia
y subjetividad en mujeres guatemaltecas [Violence and subjectivity
in Guatemalan women]. Invited address in series: Ciclo de charlas
sobre la violencia, Movimiento Solidario de Salud Mental.
|
August, 1988
Buenos Aires, AR |
Lykes, M. B. Charla:
Identidad femenina [Gender and identity]. Invited address.
Lugar de Mujer. |
March, 1988
New York, NY |
Lykes, M. B. Conceptualizing
women's sense of self: Theoretical and methodological issues in cross
cultural research. Invited address, New School for
Social Research. |
March, 1988
New Orleans, LA |
Lykes, M. B. Guatemalan
Indian children of war, Latin American Studies Association, XIV International
Congress. |
January, 1988
Paris, France |
Lykes, M. B. Mental
health issues in the context of war: Perspectives from Central America.
Institut Sant? et Developpement, Universit? de Paris. |
October, 1987
S. Hadley, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Psychological
perspectives on stereotyping. Invited address, Mt.
Holyoke College. |
July, 1987
Habana, Cuba |
Lykes, M. B. Intentionality
and survival among Guatemalan Indian women refugees. InterAmerican
Psychological Association, XXI Congress. |
June, 1987
New York, NY |
Lykes, M. B. Perspectives
on mental health issues in Central America: Experiences of Guatemalan
Indian women refugees. National Central America Health Rights Network
Annual Meeting. |
June, 1987
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Victimization
and resistance: Challenges to cross cultural collaborative research.
Working Conference, Mental Health Committee, Boston Committee for
Health Rights in Central America. |
October, 1986
Lowell, MA |
Liem, R. &
Lykes, M. B. Roundtable: Theoretical and methodological
issues in community psychology: Perspectives gained from collaboration
with Latin American psychologists. Northeast Regional Community Psychology
Conference. |
October, 1986
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Issues
of self and community among Guatemalan Indian refugees. New England
Psychological Association. |
October, 1986
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. The
will to resist: Preservation of self and culture in Guatemala. Latin
American Studies Association. |
August, 1986
Washington, DC |
Lykes, M. B. The
preservation of culture and intentionality among Guatemalan refugees.
American Psychological Association. |
April, 1986
Amherst, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Individuality
and sociality in conceptions of the self. New England Psychological
Association, University of Massachusetts. |
November, 1985
Newton, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Collective
bases for notions of the self. Feminist Ethics Consultation. |
August, 1985
Los Angeles, CA |
Liem, R. &
Lykes, M. B. I. Psychology in Latin America: Responding to current
realities; II. Dialogue with Latin American psychologists. Coordinator
of invited symposium and chair of dialogue. American Psychological
Association. |
March, 1985
Boston, MA |
Amaro, H., Espin,
O., Fearey, M., Lykes, M. B., Mulvey, A., Obler, L.,
Reinharz, S. Feminist research group: Theory and practice in action.
Eastern Psychological Association. |
March, 1985
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B. Autonomous
individualism and social individuality: Alternative understandings
of the self. Eastern Psychological Association. |
|
August, 1984 Toronto,
Canada |
Lykes, M. B. Collective
action and the development of social individuality in women. American
Psychological Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education,
#ED 251 729. |
|
August, 1983 Anaheim,
CA |
Lykes, M. B. &
Stewart, A.J. Evaluating the feminist challenge in psychology: 1963
1983. American Psychological Association. |
|
April, 1983 Philadelphia,
PA |
Lykes, M. B. Discrimination
in the lives of older Black women. Eastern Psychological Association.
Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 244 168. |
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April, 1983 Philadelphia,
PA |
Ryan, W., Lykes,
M. B., & Bertner, B. Assessing ideology: The influence of fundamental
belief systems on social and political opinions. Eastern Psychological
Association. Reprinted in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 241 399.
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March, 1983 Cambridge,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. Racism
and sexism in the lives of Black women: A social science analysis
using oral history data. Presented in symposium: Documenting the lives
of older Black women: The use of oral history and a social science
analysis. Radcliffe College. |
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August, 1982 Washington,
DC |
Lykes, M. B. &
Stewart, A.J. Studying the effects of early experience on women's
career achievement. American Psychological Association. Reprinted
in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 225 072. |
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March, 1982 Durham,
NH |
Lykes, M. B. &
Smith, A. Black women in social context: New directions. Colloquium,
New England Social Psychological Association, University of New Hampshire.
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May, 1981 Cambridge,
MA |
Lykes, M. B. &
Stewart, A. J. Educated women's career patterns: Separating developmental
and social change. Colloquium at the Henry A. Murray Center, Radcliffe
College. |
April, 1981
New York, NY |
Lykes, M. B., Stewart,
A. J. & LaFrance, M. Control and aspirations in adolescents: A
comparison by race and sex. Eastern Psychological Association. Reprinted
in ERIC, Resources in Education, #ED 212 948. |
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February, 1981
Boston, MA |
Lykes, M. B., Martin,
J., & Richardson, N. D. Racism and alternative women's educational
programs: Developing feminist and anti-racist programs. New England
Women's Studies Association. |
GRANTS RECEIVED
Lykes, M.B. Adult
Education, Social Justice and Reflexive Praxis: One Response to Inequality
Teaching, Advising and Mentoring Grant, Boston College, June 2003-April 2004
TOTAL: $15,000
Lykes, M.B., in
collaboration with the Grail/Cape Town: South-South Dialogue,
10 day workshop/working dialogue in Kleinmond, South Africa, October, 2000.
Partial support for dialogue among grassroots women's organizations from
Latin America, Asia and Africa, sharing best practices in response to state
organized and/or sponsored violence and the violence of international
economic policies, towards the development of networks or support and
resistance and two books ? one a report on the workshop and description of
'best practices' and the second for a wider public and university audience
AND subsequent exchange program among Guatemalans and various groups in
Johannesburg.
SOROS Foundation Guatemala/Fundación Soros Guatemala: $14,787
Open Society Institute/New York: $11,140
TOTAL: $25,927
Lykes, M.B., with
Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak? saq? eb? al [Association of Maya Ixil
Women ? New Dawn], Chajul, Guatemala. Mental Health and Human Rights among
Women of Rural Guatemala: Photovoice as a Tool for Community Organizing and
Social Change. Two year grant funded by the Open Society Institute/SOROS
Foundation ?
Fundación Soros Guatemala.
TOTAL BUDGET FOR TWO YEARS: 763,150 Quetzales = $121,475
(Exchange at time of grant's approval: 6.2 Q = $ 1 US)
Lykes, M. B., with ASECSA,
Guatemala and MSSM, Argentina, ILAS, Chile, UCA, El Salvador. Las
Consecuencias de la Violencia Institucionalizada en los Niños de Cuatro
Países de America Latina: Investigación, Terapia, y Prevención/Educación [The
Consequences of Institutionalized Violence in Children in Four Countries of
Latin America: Research, Therapy and Prevention/Education], Médico
Internacional, Germany.
Two year project, 1991-1993, extended for 6 months, through March, 1994.
This grant was coordinated by David Becker, ILAS, Chile. The project was
originally developed with Ignacio Martín-baró, S.J. in the winter of
1988-1989.
TOTAL BUDGET FOR TWO
YEARS: 438,000 DM = $ 243,333 (approx.)
(Exchange at time of grant's approval: 1.8 DM = $ 1 US)
Lykes, M. B. Justice for
Children at Risk: Training Mental Health Workers in a Context of State-sponsored
Violence. Jesuit Institute, Boston College, 1991-1992.
TOTAL: $ 31,000
Lykes, M. B., with Juan Jorge Faría. Bibliografía en Salud Mental y
Derechos Humanos: Acceso Cualificado a los Materiales [Bibliography in
Mental Health and Human Rights: A Qualitative Analysis of Materials], Médico
Internacional, Germany, 1991-1992.
TOTAL: $ 13,250
Lykes, M. B., with ASECSA,
Guatemala, and MSSM, Argentina. Proyecto de Talleres Psicoasistenciales en
Guatemala, 1990-1991 [Project of Psychosocial Assistance Workshops in
Guatemala, 1990-1991], UNICEF.
TOTAL: $ 32,294.22
Lykes, M. B. Psychosocial
effects of State-Sponsored Violence: A Research-Action Project, 1989.
Supported by:
Rhode Island College, Faculty Development Fund, $1,000.
Rhode Island College Study Leave, 1989-1990 (without pay, with benefits)
Travel Grant, American Psychological Association, 1989, $450.
TOTAL: $ 1,450
Lykes, M. B. Guatemalan
Indian Children of War: An Action-Research Project, 1988.
Supported by:
Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues, Division 9, American Psychological
Association, Grants-in Aid, $1,000.
W. H. and C. B. Ferry Fund, $1,000.
Rhode Island College,
Faculty Research Grant, $1,000; Faculty Scholars Award, $3,000.
Center for Democratic Education, $2,000.
TOTAL: $ 8,000
Lykes, M.B. Perspectives
on Self and Culture in Life Stories of Indian Women of Guatemala, 1986,
Rhode Island College, Faculty Research Grant, $1,252; Faculty award, $2,000.
TOTAL: $ 3,252
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Partial listing)
Professional committees:
2007
- present External Expert, London School of Economics and Political Science,
Institute of Social Psychology
2007 External Examiner, University of British Colombia, Faculty of Graduate
Studies
2006 - present Associate Editor and Reviewer, Journal of Transitional
Justice
2001 - 2004 Committee on International Relations in Psychology, Chairperson,
2004, American Psychological Association.
2002 University of
Pennsylvania Press, Manuscript Reviewer
2001 - present Editor,
Action Research Journal
1999-2001 UNISA, Critical
Reference Group in Community Psychology
1999-2004
Reviewer. Psychology in Society (PINS), South Africa
1998 - present Cadre of
Experts, Initiative on Ethnopolitical Warfare: Origins,
Intervention, and Prevention, American and Canadian Psychological
Associations.
1994-present Reviewer.
Feminism and Psychology.
1994-present Member,
Editorial Board, and Reviewer. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace
Psychology.
1992-present Reviewer.
American Journal of Community Psychology.
1998-present Member, Editorial Board
1993-1997 Reviewer.
Social Science and Medicine.
1992-1995 Manuscripts
reviewer. McGraw Hill Haworth Press.
1991-1997 Member, Task
Force on Human Rights and Academic Freedom, Latin American Studies
Association.
1989 present Reviewer.
Psychology of Women Quarterly.
1989 1993 Reviewer.
Journal of Social Issues.
1986 Manuscripts reviewer.
Temple University Press.
1985 Reviewer. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology.
1983 1985 Reviewer.
Journal of Personality.
1983 1984 Member of
Program Review Committee, Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues, Division 9.
1982 Review of
applications for the Research Scholars Program, Henry A. Murray Center,
Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
Professional working groups:
2002-2004
Member, Border Crossings, Boston area women academics & activists
1994-present Member, New
England Narratives Study Group.
1991-1999 Member,
Children in War & Communal Violence Int'l Working Group.
Consultant on institutional racism:
1988 Confronting the isms on the college campus. Staff training, Rhode
Island College, Providence, RI.
1987 Racism in the
college classroom. Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
1981 Identifying and
Combating Institutional Racism, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.
1979 Executive Staff
Conference, Church Women United, Malvern, PA. Consultation on Feminism &
Racism.
Consultant on
feminist issues/women's studies:
1992-2003
Bi-annual workshops on sense of self, women's creative responses to the
psychosocial effects of war and state-violence. Asociación de la
Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak? saq? eb? al [Association of Maya Ixil Women ? New
Dawn], Chajul, Guatemala ? see below and above.
1982 Feminist Theological
Institute, Cambridge, MA.
1982 Boston Sisters
Senate, Boston, MA.
1981-1988
Women's Theological Center, Boston, MA.
1980 Resource Staff,
National Conference, National Assembly of Women Religious, Reflecting on
Women's Work Lives, Milwaukee, WI.
1977 Feminist Studies in Theological Education, National Consultation,
Center for Women and Religion, Berkeley, CA.
1976 Consultation on
Human Sexuality, Commission on Women in Church and Society, United Church of
Christ.
Consultant on organizational development/community
psychology:
2003-2006
Consultant, AFAB: Association of Haitian Women in Boston, Design and
carrying out of Focus Group training program, towards development of leadership
development program, with Rebecca Johnson
1999
Consultant, Juvenile Offender Project, Centre for the Study of Violence
and Reconciliation, Johannesburg, South Africa
1994-2000 Staff
development and training and program resource consultant with Asociación de
la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak? saq? eb? al [Association of Maya Ixil Women ? New
Dawn], Chajul, Guatemala ? see below.
1987 Staff development
and program resource consultant, Women's Theological Center, Boston, MA.
1985 Workshop on Skills
Development. Boston Women's Fund.
1981 Center for
Educational & Pastoral Ministry, Emmanual College, Boston, MA. Program
evaluator.
1981 University of Lowell,
Department of Psychology. Designed and developed Field Training component of
Masters Program in Community/Social Psychology.
1980 Workshop on
Administrative Decision making, Conference on Career Development for
Undergraduate Women, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.
1977 1978 Advisory
Resource Center, Boston University, Boston, MA. Consultant to student
organizations.
1973 1976 Women's
Counseling and Resource Center, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Administrator, staff,
and fundraiser.
1971 1972 Cambridge
Clergy Consultation, Cambridge, MA. Needs assessment, interview construction,
interviewing, data analysis and final report: "Pastoral Care in Cambridge,
MA: A Survey of Cambridge Clergy, 1972."
Consultant on/with children, families, and war:
2006-
present Consultant to InterPares, Canada/Guatemala. Workshop on Psychosocial
Accompaniment, Sexual Violence against Women in War in Guatemala, Peru,
and Colombia.
2003, May Consultant to Psychosocial Working Group Annual Forum on Children
in War. Sponsored by: Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh &
Refugee Studies Program, Oxford U., New York, NY
2001-
2004 Consultant to GTZ on designing and evaluating training programs for
rural promoters providing psychosocial, community-based accompaniment
to communities surviving from war and state-violence.
1998-1999 Consultant to
Comisión para el esclarecimiento Histórico [Commission for Historical
Clarification] UNOPS, United Nations ?Collaboration in preparation of
sections of final report on Psychosocial Effects of War and Recommendations
for Reparation Process
1995-2000 Consultant to
non-governmental organizations in Guatemala, coordinating workshops with
mental health workers and NGO staff on issues of war repression and
community mental health in a multicultural context.
1994-2000 Consultant to
Asociación de la Mujer Maya Ixil - Ak? saq? eb? al [Association of Maya Ixil
Women ? New Dawn]. Work with Ixil women in rural Guatemala who coordinate
programs with Maya women and children in mental health and community self-determination
including: A corn mill to raise income for widows and their children, a
mental health and educational program for children ages 6-12, and women's
health action research project/center.
1991-1993 Consultant to
Patricia Goudvis, professional filmmaker, in production of film: Si el Arbol
de Mango Pudiera Hablar [If the Mango Tree Could Speak].
1991-1992 Consultant to
Funding Exchange, NY. Publication of Guatemala Funders' Guide, with John
Ruthrauff.
1991 Consultant to
Christian Children's Fund, Richmond, VA. Presentation on responses to
children in situations of organized violence.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2000-2001 Advisory Team,
Life Skills and HIV/AIDS Education and Training for the Early Childhood
Development Program, Johannesburg, South Africa
1997-2000 Member, Peace
Watch Ireland, Boston , MA.
1995-present Advisory
Committee. Women's Rights International.
1996-1999 Board Member,
National Coordinating Office for the Refugees and Displaced of Guatemala (NCOORD),Washington, DC.
1993-1996 Co-founder and
Board of Directors, Guatemala Partners, Washington, DC. Member, Outreach/Education
Committee and Fundraising Committee.
1992-1995 Advisory
Committee. Physicians for Human Rights-Women's Project.
1991-1995 Advisory Panel, Griots of Roxbury, Oral History Center, Cambridge,
MA.
1990-present Co-Developer
and Coordinator, Ignacio Martín-baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights,
Funding Exchange, NY.
1989-1992 Board of
Directors, Children's Rights International, Philadelphia, PA.
1988 1998 Advisor, Latin
America Committee of the Overseas Committee, Oxfam America, Boston, MA.
1987 present Co developer,
Network of Communication and Scientific Documentation in Mental Health and
Human Rights, Boston, MA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Hamburg, Germany.
1987 1989 Fundraising and
Long Range Planning Committee, National Central America Health Rights
Network, New York.
1986 1993 Board of
Directors, Guatemala Health Rights Support Project,Washington, DC. With
particular work on women's issues and mental health issues.
1986 1990 Board of
Directors & Program Committee, P.E.A.C.E. for Guatemala (Program for
Emergency Assistance, Cooperation and Education), PA..
1985 1995 Boston
Committee for Health Rights in Central America. Co organizer of Mental
Health Committee, Boston, MA.
1981 1988 Co organizer
and Board of Directors, Boston Women's Fund, MA.
1976 1978 Member, Board
of Directors, and co developer, Vocational Training Educational Program for
Adults, Agassiz Community School, Jamaica Plain, MA.
1975 1978 President,
Board of Directors, Boston Cambridge Ministry to Higher Education, Boston,
MA.
1972-1975 Secretary,
Board of Directors, North Cambridge Health and Social Service Center,
Cambridge, MA |
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