Harold Takooshian
Harold Takooshian is an American academic and psychologist perhaps best known as an expert on the Kitty Genovese case, having spent many years studying the subject and the role that the "bystander effect" played therein.[1][2][3]
Biograpghy
Takooshian graduated from City University of New York in 1979 with a PhD. At CUNY Takooshian was a student of the famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram known for his controversial experiments on obedience. In the 1985 Hollywood film "Experimenter" starting Peter Sarsgaard as Milgram, Takooshian acted as a science advisor to the feature's director, Michael Almereyda, as well as performing on screen in a small role as a "familiar stranger".[4][5] He also appeared with Daniel Bruhl, the actor who potrays the role of the titular character (The Alienist/Dr. Kreiezker) in the TNT series The Alienist adapted from the novel by Caleb Carr of the same name, in the Alienst: The Birth of Physchology" a historical short produced by the cable channel to accompany the feature program.[6]
He has been a member of the Fordham University faculty since 1975. Takooshian is a widely published essayist having written articles for periodicals including; the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless,[7] International Psychology Bulletin and The Counseling Psychologist, among many other publications.[8]
Takooshian is currently a professor of psychology and of Urban Studies at Fordham University.[9] He is a past President of Psi Chi the worlds' largest psychology honors society and was the 2009-10 recipient of the organization's Florence L. Denmark Faculty Advisor Award. [10][11] He is also a past President and the current secretary of the Manhattan Physchological Association.[12]
Takooshian has hosted a number of symposiums on the Genovese case, including; "Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: A public forum" to mark the fortieth anniversary of the event. Among the participants on the panel were the New York Times executive editor and columnist A.M. Rosenthal (1922-2006), who was so moved by the case that he went on to write "Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case",[13] which brought worldwide attention to the incident, Charles Skoller, the prosecutor of the crime and author of "Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese and Barbara Kralik Murder Trials", and several other experts in fields germane to the story.
He has also written at length on subjects relating to his own Armenian heritage, Armenia, and Armenian Americans.[14]
In 1987-88 he was a Fulbright scholar to the USSR and then In 2013-14 he was the recipient of a second Fulbright Scholarship, this time to lecture in the since his prior visit reconstituted nation of Russia under the aegis a project entitled "Social Psychology of City Life Across Cultures". Subsequent to this second scholarly visit the article "On the Russian-American Cooperation in Social Psychology (Professor H. Takooshian's Visit to Russia in September–December 2013)'", co-authored by Takooshian and Alexander Voronov was published by the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.[15]
Takooshian also contributed several entries in Kenneth T. Jackson's The Encyclopedia of New York City published by Yale University Press.[16] Among his most recent publications is the article "Internationalizing Undergraduate Psychology Education: Trends, Techniques, and Technologies" in American Psychologist co-authored with Scott Plous, Grant Rich and Uwe P. Gielen. He is often consulted by media sources on a variety of other current subjects; including in different instances; Donald Trump and political correctness, the Brian Williams embellishment of the truth uproar[17] and the U.S. Federal sentencing of the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.[18]
References
- ^ Colangelo, Lisa L. "Kitty Genovese continues to fascinate scholars 50 years after her shocking murder in Queens". nydailynews.com.
- ^ "It's true: Cities are meaner". Salon. March 24, 2012.
- ^ "Harold Takooshian on Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect". SoundCloud.
- ^ "Eye For Film: Interview with Harold Takooshian about Stanley Milgram and Experimenter". www.eyeforfilm.co.uk.
- ^ "Harold Takooshian". IMDb.
- ^ "Birth Of Psychology". www.tntdrama.com.
- ^ Giardino, Joseph; Black, Natasha; Donald, Hillary; Bhalla, Rukmini; Takooshian, Harold (January 1, 2011). "Public attitudes toward the ethics of organ donation". Psychology Faculty Publications.
- ^ Takooshian, Harold (July 1, 2003). "Counseling Psychology's Wide New Horizons". The Counseling Psychologist. 31 (4): 420–426. doi:10.1177/0011000003031004005 – via SAGE Journals.
- ^ N, Miah Md. "Harold Takooshian". www.fordham.edu.
- ^ "Eye on Psi Chi: Spring 1999 - Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology". www.psichi.org.
- ^ "Psi Beta Newsletter". psibeta.org.
- ^ "MPA Board News Archives".
- ^ https://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Eight-Witnesses-Genovese-Melville-Journalism/dp/1933633298
- ^ Zake, I. (May 25, 2009). "Anti-Communist Minorities in the U.S.: Political Activism of Ethnic Refugees". Springer – via Google Books.
- ^ H, Takooshian; A.Ya, Voronov (July 26, 2014). "On the Russian-American Cooperation in Social Psychology (Professor H. Takooshian's Visit to Russia in September-December, 2013)". Social Psychology and Society.
- ^ Jackson, Kenneth T.; Keller, Lisa; Flood, Nancy (December 1, 2010). "The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition". Yale University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "Brian Williams suspended for it, but everybody embellishes". nydailynews.com.
- ^ "Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri sentenced to life for 1998 hostage taking". CGTN America. January 10, 2015.
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