Nationality American | Alma mater CCNY | |
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Introduction dr harold takooshian part 1
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. Takooshian graduated from City University of New York in 1979 with a PhD. He has been a member of the Fordham University faculty since 1975. Takooshian is a widely published essayist having penned articles for periodicals including; the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, International Psychology Bulletin and The Counseling Psychologist, among many other publications. Takooshian is currently a professor of psychology and Urban Studies at Fordham. He is a past President of Psi Chi the worlds' largest psychology honors society.
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Tarkooshian 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", 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.
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.
Takooshian also authored several entries in Kenneth T. Jackson's The Encyclopedia of New York City published by Yale University Press.
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 imbroglio and the U.S. Federal sentencing of the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.