Lessons Learned From Political Violence and Genocide in Teaching a Psychology of Peace: An Interview With Linda Woolf

Tasha R. Howe got her BA in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her MA and PhD in developmental psychology from the University of California, Riverside. After doing an NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship in developmental psychopathology at Vanderbilt University, she served as assistant professor of psychology at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Currently as assistant professor of psychology at Humboldt State University in California, Dr. Howe specializes in child abuse, family violence, developmental psychopathology, community violence, and ecological factors affecting normal and atypical child development. She teaches a wide variety of courses, including human development, the history of psychology, family violence, assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect, children's cognitive development, and developmental psychopathology. She is married and has two sons, ages 6 and 1.Linda M. Woolf is the Coordinator of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Professor of Psychology at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her MS and PhD in applied-experimental psychology from Saint Louis University. She currently serves as Review Editor for the e-journal H-Genocide, secretary for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2, APA), and an executive committee member for the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence (Division 48, APA). In addition to her courses on the Holocaust, genocide, peace and conflict, and women and global human rights, Dr. Woolf also teaches a wide variety of courses such as women's intellectual contributions to the study of mind and society, the history and systems of psychology, social psychology, adult development and aging, and introductory psychology. She loves baseball, Star Trek, and her dogs and cats!