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GINA PHILOGÈNE
Social Psychology

Education:

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France); Ph.D. in Social Psychology: "From Black to African American: The making of a new social representation." Mention trés honorable avec félicitations du jury (Summa Cum Laude), March 2, 1996.

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Université de Paris, Paris; D.E.A. in Social Psychology, September 1991.

New School for Social Research, New York; M.A. in Psychology, May 1989.

Hofstra University, Hempstead (New York); B.A. in Psychology, May 1985.

Teaching:

Historical Evolution of Psychology - Seminar (F 1998); Lecture (F 2000; S 2002).

Exploring the Social Dimensions of Human Life - Year Course (1998-1999; 1999-2000; 2002-2003).

Introduction to the Theory of Social Representations - Seminar (S 1999; S 2001; S 2003).

First-Year Studies: The Realities of Groups - Year Course (1999-2000).

The Psychology of the Future - Seminar (F 1999).

The Psychology of Groups - Seminar (S 2001).

Social Thinking - Seminar (F 2001).

Representations of the Social - Year Course (2001-2002).

Advanced Seminar in the History of Psychology: The Dialectics of Social and Cognitive Psychologies - (F 2002).

Research:

Social Representations of the Future, March 1999 - present.
Empirical study of anticipatory representations through the theoretical analysis of beliefs and models of social thinking about the future, and empirical evidences of the Y2K phenomenon..

The Immigrants in Film, October 2000 - present.
In collaboration with Kay Deaux (CUNY) and Xenia Chryssochoou (University of Surrey). Investigation of the images of immigrants in film, their impact on the viewers as well as the culture at large.

Group Polarization, February 1997 - present.
Theoretical analyses and empirical interpretations of group polarization, through people's attitudes about cloning.
Design of an historical website on group polarization

The Social Psychology of Human Rights, December 1994 - June 1999.
Based on the international project directed by Willem Doise (University of Geneva), this study focuses on the dissonant nature of human rights in the U.S.

Publications:

1- Books:

The Future on Our Mind: The Anticipation of Things to Come, (book manuscript in preparation).

Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark. American Psychological Association (forthcoming 2003).

With Kay Deaux (Eds.), The Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Perspectives. New York: Basil Blackwell (2001).

From Black to African American: A New Social Representation. Westport, CT: Greenwood-Praeger (1999).

2- Articles:

"The Idealized Past: Homesickness, Nostalgia, and Immigrants in Transition" (in preparation for Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology).

"Conceptualizing the Future: Magical and scientific thinking about the year 2000 (Y2K) phenomenon" (to be submitted to Psychological Sciences).

Choosing a name as filter for group identity," in Gina Philogene (Ed.), Racial Identity in Context: The Legacy of Kenneth B. Clark. American Psychological Association (forthcoming 2003).

With Serge Moscovici, Enquetes et Sondages. In Serge Moscovici et Fabrice Buschini (Eds.). La recherche en sciences sociales. Paris: PUF.

Systems of beliefs and the future: The anticipation of things to come. Psychologie et société, Numéro 5, Aix-en-Provence, Fall (2002).

"Stereotype Fissure: Katz & Braly Revisited," Social Science Information, 40(3), 411-432, (2001).

"From Race to Culture: The Emergence of African American," in Kay Deaux and Gina Philogène (Eds.), The Representation of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell, (2001).

"Culture, Communication and Change: A new context for social representations in North America,"
http://www.europhd.psi.uniroma1.it/main/main_didactic.htm, (2000)

"Blacks as 'Serviceable Other'," Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 10, 391-401, (2000)

"Social Representation," in A. Kazdin (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Psychology, American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press: New York, (2000).

"African American as a New Social Representation." Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 24 (2), 89-109, (1994).

Organization of Conferences:

"Race and Identity: Perspectives on American Society," Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY, October 2001. Sponsored by the American Psychological Association and Sarah Lawrence College.

Symposium: "Human Rights in the United States," American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 1999. Sponsored by Marilyn Simpson Support Grant.

(with Kay Deaux), "Social Representations and Social Psychology in the United States," CUNY Graduate Center, New York NY, October 1998. Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

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