Contributors
- Contributors
Diana Baumrind is a research scientist at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, where for more than fifty years she has directed a longitudinal study of parenting effects on youth. Baumrind is a leading authority on parenting effects, in particular, how contrasting child-rearing patterns influence the development of character and competence in youth. Her work on parenting and children’s well-being has been continuously supported by grants from numerous public and private agencies. Baumrind received her bachelor’s degree from Hunter College, majoring in philosophy and social psychology, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Although enrolled in the clinical program at Berkeley, her focal interests were in social and moral development. Her published work, consisting of more than sixty-five primarily single-authored pieces, includes an influential set of critical essays on professional ethics.
Augustine Brannigan completed doctoral training in sociology at the University of Toronto in 1977, and taught for two years at the University of Western Ontario. In 1979 he joined the faculty of social science at the University of Calgary, where he taught criminology, social psychology, and social theory until his retirement in 2012. His classic contribution to science studies, The Social Basis of Scientific Discoveries (1981), was re-released in 2010. He published a critique of the misuse of experimentation in The Rise and Fall of Social Psychology (2004). His study of genocide, Beyond the Banality of Evil, was published in 2013. It is based in part on field work in post-genocidal Rwanda in 2004 and 2005. Professor Brannigan is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary and continues to research and write on a variety of subjects on crime and justice. [End Page 143]
Ed Erdos received his master’s in psychology from the New School and his PhD in philosophy from New York University. He was an adjunct professor for a number of years at the New York Institute of Technology. He published a first formulation of “The Milgram Trap” (“Die Milgram-Falle”) in the German journal Psychosozial in 2010. He has done extensive research with the assistance of dean emeritus Stuart Levine of Bard College with ongoing appearances at his Milgram seminar there. He is a participant and contributor to conferences and lectures and is actively continuing his scholarship and writing.
Frank Jankunis is a PhD student in the philosophy department at the University of Calgary and a part-time instructor of philosophy at various universities, including the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, and the University of Lethbridge. His research interests are primarily environmental philosophy and ethics, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of religion. His PhD thesis examines the ethical implications of biologist Richard Lewontin’s work on the relation between gene, organism, and environment.
Sara R. Jordan is currently a visiting assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Miami. She recently returned to the United States after working for the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include applied ethics, specifically research ethics; public policy, including research and development regulation; and social science research methods. Her work can be found in Accountability in Research, Developing World Bioethics, and Journal of Academic Ethics.
Arthur G. Miller is professor emeritus of psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his doctorate in social psychology from Indiana University in 1967 and spent 1979–80 at Princeton University on an nimh fellowship, studying with Ned Jones. He is the author of The Obedience Experiments: A Case Study of Controversy in Social Science (1986). He (with Diana Brief and Barry Collins) coedited a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues in 1995 (“Perspectives on Obedience to Authority: The Legacy of the Milgram Experiments”), and he recently coedited (with Alex Haslam and Steve Reicher) another issue of that journal (in press) [End Page 144] devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of Milgram’s initial (1963) publication on obedience. In 1999 he edited a special issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review (“Harming Other People: Perspectives on Evil and Violence”), and in 2004 he edited The Social Psychology of Good and Evil. He is currently working on a second edition of...
