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Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., is a teaching associate professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches Psychology of Race and Ethnicity and courses on restorative justice. Since 2009, Mikhail has been studying and working with conflict, particularly via Restorative Circles (a restorative practice developed in Brazil by Dominic Barter and associates) and other restorative responses to conflict. Together with Elaine Shpungin, he now supports schools, organizations, and workplaces in developing restorative strategies for engaging conflict, building conflict facilitation skills and evaluating the outcomes associated with restorative responses via Conflict 180. In addition to conflict and restorative practices, Mikhail also has a long-standing interest (going back about 20 years) in race and racial dynamics and regularly explores these themes in his Psychology Today blog Between the Lines., as well as in contributions to a variety of anthologies on popular culture, ranging from Harry Potter to vampires to superheroes. In addition to OpEdNews, Mikhail's commentary has also appeared in a many other online publications, including Buzzflash, Jewcy, Colors, Race-Talk, Truthout, Tikkun, Alternet and The Huffington Post, and he has been a guest on a variety of radio programs, including Illinois Public Media and Wisconsin Public Radio. Mikhail's academic work includes several book chapters and more than a dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as racial identity, undocumented immigration, and restorative justice. Mikhail also recently co-edited an academic textbook: Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Age and, in 2006, co-authored a book on the Russian-Jewish diaspora: Building a Diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany, and the United States. All material on this site published under his byline remains the property of Mikhail Lyubansky, copyright 2008-2016. Permission is granted to repost and distribute, with proper attribution. Follow Mikhail on Twitter. labs.psychology.illinois.edu/~lyubansk/ OpEd News Member for 822 week(s) and 5 day(s) 87 Articles, 42 Quick Links, 346 Comments, 3 Diaries, 1 Polls
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Saturday, July 6, 2013The Health Outcomes of a Racist Society Residential segregation and other societal racist structures increases health risks and mortality. David Williams and other scholars empirically illustrate the problem...and the potential interventions.
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Sunday, January 13, 2013Three Recommendations for Joe Biden's Gun Task Force It's easy to point the finger at the mentally ill and media but solutions lie elsewhere. Here are three empirically-based recommendations for reducing violence: 
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Sunday, January 13, 2013Confronting the Violence That Betrays Young Lives Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) statement on mass killings
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Thursday, April 26, 2012Studies of Unconscious Bias Suggest Racism Not Necessarily Perpetrated By Racists Research shows that when people hold a negative stereotype about a group and meet someone from that group, they often treat that person differently and honestly don't even realize it.
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Monday, February 27, 2012Ten Things Everyone Should Know About White Privilege Today Understanding privilege can help us make sense of our relationships, connect across differences, and make the world better in the process.
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Monday, February 6, 2012How Super is Superhero Justice? Like speculative fiction in general, superhero stories are ultimately about ourselves. The fictional universes allow the writers to manipulate the circumstances to better examine the most complex aspects of the human experience, none more so than the issues of morality and justice
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Thursday, December 22, 2011The Cost of Vengeance: The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Part 2 Nietzsche observed (about those who fight monsters), "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Is Lisbeth Salander really safer as a result of taking vengeance? Are the rest of us?
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011The Cost of Justice: The Psychology of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Part 1 Lisbeth Salander's anger is righteous. Her violence apparently justified. After all, we neither mourn for the monsters that heroes kill, nor question their choice to kill them. But is there anything she might have done that might have served both her and society better? 
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011Are stereotypes unfairly stereotyped? Think you know what stereotypes are? If you're relying on definitions from mainstream dictionaries, you're probably, well...guilty of stereotyping. But don't worry. That might not be a bad thing
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Saturday, October 1, 2011"No Wedding No Womb" Might Save Lives--Are We Content With That? Is there a cost to promoting marriage and two-parent families?
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Thursday, September 22, 2011The Racial Scoop on NYPD Officers' Dirty Dancing White men "keeping order and control" over Black women's bodies, while at the same time using those same bodies for their own sexual gratification has a long and painful history in this country. Are the women and police officers in this video aware that they are playing out the slavery script?
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011Twenty Tweets About Troy Davis and the Death Penalty With Davis's execution just hours away, it is time to not only take immediate action to save his life (see last tweet) but to examine the system of capital punishment more broadly, a system that is racially biased beyond a reasonable doubt. 
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Monday, September 5, 2011Come Learn about Restorative Circles: A Community Response to Conflict and Injustice Internationally-known restorative-justice practitioner/teacher Dominic Barter will lead a 5-day learning event in Champaign, IL October 12-16.
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Thursday, June 9, 2011Kids On Color: New Site Helps Parents and Kids Talk About Race Sometimes the conversations we shy away from having with our kids are exactly the ones we most need to have. Professor of media, culture, and communication, Charlton McIlwain, hopes his new website, Kids on Color, helps families do just that.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011Study Finds Smiling Men are Less Attractive to Women A new study suggests that smiling is seen as sexually attractive on women but not on men. The findings explain some enduring widely-believed phenomena and raise interesting questions about inter-racial attraction.
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Monday, June 6, 2011The Racial Politics of X-Men The X-Men franchise draws deliberate parallels between the oppression of mutants and that of other marginalized groups. What does it have to teach us about our own culture's racial history and prejudices?
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Sunday, June 5, 2011Ethical Lessons from Kanazawa: Recommendations for Writers and Editors Professional degrees give Psychologists and other scientists presumed trust and an assumption of competence, but as uncle Ben told Peter Parker when he first became Spiderman, "with great power comes great responsibility" 
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Saturday, June 4, 2011Want to know what "race" is or isn't? Don't ask the dictionary! Dictionaries do a lousy job defining race. A new study suggests that the social cost of this may be higher than we thought, but there is also reason for optimism. 
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011Beauty May Be In Eye of Beholder But Eyes See What Culture Socializes Kanazawa's claims aside, there is no single "objective" standard of beauty. The adage that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" is incomplete. Sure, there are individual differences. The point is that there are also group differences, not in attractiveness (as Kanazawa claims), but in cultural messages about what is and is not attractive. 
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011Japan's "civilized" response to the earthquake and tsunami has inspired all the wrong questions Japan can use all the support it can get. Too bad so much of it has come bundled with racist assumptions about cultural superiority. |
