Harold Takooshian

Harold Takooshian is an American psychologist and academic perhaps best known as a premier authority on the Kitty Genovese case, having spent many years studying the subject.[1] Takooshian graduated from City University of New York in 1979 with a PhD.[2] He has been a member of the Fordham University faculty from 1975 on.[3] Takooshian is a widely published essayist having penned articles for periodicals including; the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless,[4] International Psychology Bulletin[5] and The Counseling Psychologist, among many other publications.[6] Takooshian is currently a professor of psychology and Urban Studies at Fordham.[2] He is a past President of Psi Chi the worlds' largest psychology honors society.[7]

Tarkooshian has hosted a number of symposiums on the Genovese case,[8] 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",[9] 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.[10]

He has also written at length on subjects relating to his own Armenian heritage, Armenia and Armenian Americans.[11][12]

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".[13] 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.[14]

Takooshian also authored several entries in Kenneth T. Jackson's The Encyclopedia of New York City published by Yale University Press.[15]

He is often consulted by media sources on a variety of other current subjects; including in different instances; Donald Trump and political correctness,[16] the Brian Williams embellishment of the truth imbroglio[17] and the U.S. Federal sentencing of the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.[18]

References

  1. ↑ LISA L. COLANGELO (5 March 2014). "Conference examines Kitty Genovese murder 50 years later". NY Daily News. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Harold Takooshian". Fordham University. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Harold Takooshian". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ↑ ""Public attitudes toward the ethics of organ donation" by Joseph C. Giardino, Natasha N. Black et al.". Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Harold Takooshian, Ph.D. - Fordham University Psychology Department". Fordham University. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Counseling Psychology's Wide New Horizons". The Counseling Psychologist, Sage Publications. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov04/psichi.aspx
  8. ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/13/did-really-do-nothing-murder-kitty-genovese.html
  9. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Thirty-Eight-Witnesses-Genovese-Melville-Journalism/dp/1933633298
  10. ↑ http://fordham.bepress.com/psych_facultypubs/267/
  11. ↑ http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Armenian-Americans.html
  12. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=4e1aaXd0skQC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=takooshian+armenia&source=bl&ots=pnb2q6DpVw&sig=DVZ-o70gmtOVu4w6meK1lWuz1Hk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxqpfskJPKAhXEbj4KHXcfBpYQ6AEIKTAC#v=onepage&q=takooshian%20armenia&f=false
  13. ↑ http://www.cies.org/grantee/harold-takooshian
  14. ↑ http://psyjournals.ru/en/social_psy/2014/n1/67192.shtml
  15. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=lI5ERUmHf3YC&pg=PT343&dq=harold+takooshian+the+encyclopedia+of+new+york+city&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4robqmaXKAhUHnRoKHa1_B_EQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=harold%20takooshian%20the%20encyclopedia%20of%20new%20york%20city&f=false
  16. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/12/09/donald-trump-says-were-all-too-politically-correct-but-is-that-also-a-way-to-limit-speech/
  17. ↑ http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/brian-williams-suspended-embellishes-article-1.2114764
  18. ↑ http://www.cctv-america.com/2015/01/09/radical-cleric-abu-hamza-al-masri-sentenced-to-life-for-1998-hostage-taking

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