Flynn, Michael
- Overview
- Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Degree Institution Field Dates PhD Duquesne University Psychology 2000 MA Duquesne University Psychology 1988 BA College of Idaho Psychology/English 1985 Full-Time Academic Experience
Institution Rank Field Dates York College Assistant Professor Psychology 2000-2006 York College Associate Professor Psychology 2007- Part-Time Academic Experience
Institution Rank Field Dates College of Staten Island Adjunct Lecturer Psychology 1992-1996 York College Adjunct Lecturer/Full-Time Substitute Lecturer Psychology 1994-2000 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Assistant Professor MA -level Psychology 2003-2007 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Adjunct Lecturer Sociology 1999 John Jay College of Criminal Justice Adjunct Lecturer History 1997 Duquesne University Instructor Psychology 1998-1991 Community College of Allegheny County Instructor Psychology 1990-1991 Non Academic Experience
Place of Employment Title Date Citizen's Committee for the Abolition of Ultimate Weapons Coordinator 1998-2002 Consortium on Youth and Violence Founder and Co-Director 1997-2000 Citizens's Committee on Bosnia-Herzegovina Coordinator 1990-1991 Pittsburgh Alliance for Peace Co-founder and Director 1989-1990 Employment Record At This Institution
Publications In Field Of Expertise
- Books:
Flynn, M.& Fernandez-Salek, F.. Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 336.
Flynn, M.& Brotherton, D.. Globalizing the Streets:Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control and Empowerment in the New Millennuim. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 334.
Strozier, C. & Flynn, M.. The Year 2000: Essays in the End. New York: NYU Press, 1997. 432.
Strozier, C. & Flynn, M.. Genocide, War, and Human Survival. Lanham, MD: Roman&Littlefield, 1996. 360.
Strozier, C. & Flynn, M.. Trauma and Self. Lanham, MD.: Roman&Littlefield, 1996. 320.
Flynn, M. & Fernandez-Salek, F.. submitted proposal for Screening Terror: Cinematic Representations of Terrorism and State Terror. : Columbia University Press, . .
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Flynn, M.. "Torture as a Response to the 'War on Terror' in America and Turkey." Criminal Justice Matters. 4 2008: 4.
Lifton, R.J., & Flynn, M.. "Mass Death, Mourning, and the Quest for Psychological Meaning: A Conversation with Robert Jay Lifton." International Journal of Group Tensions. 2004: .
Flynn, M.. "Walker Percy, the Bimillennium, and the Quests of the Apocalyptic Self." The Psychohistory Review. 2 1998: 3-15.
Flynn. M.. "Coming to Violence's Terms: A Review of All God's Children." The Psychohistory Review. 1 1996: 106-109.
Flynn, M.. "Psychotherapy and Political Resistance." The Psychohistory Review. 1 1995: 1-13.
Flynn, M.. "The Bimillennium and the Urge to Destroy: Comments on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Civil Wars." The Psychohistory Review. 1995: .
Strozier, C. & Flynn, M.. "Lifton's Method.." The Psychohistory Review. 2 1992: 131-145.
Edited Two editions of The Psychohistory Review. "." . : .
Flynn, M.. "The Self at 2000." The Psychohistory Review. Fall, 1998: .
Flynn, M.. "The Politics of Psychotherapy." The Psychohistory Review. Fall, 1995: .
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Flynn, M. & Fernandez-Salek, F.. "Its a Perfect World: Torture, Confession and Sacrifice.." In Flynn, M. & Fernandez- Salek, F. Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination. 2012: .
Flynn, M. & Fernandez-Salek, F.. "Screening Torture." In Flynn, M. & Fernandez- Salek, F. Screening Torture: Media Representations of State Terror and Political Domination. 2012: .
Flynn, M. & Brotherton, D.. "Globalizing the Streets." In M. Flynn and D. Brotherton (Eds.) Globalizing the Streets: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Youth Social Control and Empowerment. 2007: .
Flynn, M.. "Cause Fightin' is Fightin': Caucasian Youth, Violence, and Social Exclusion in a Globalized Age." In M. Flynn and D. Brotherton (Eds.) Globalizing the Streets: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Youth Social Control and Empowerment. 2007: .
Daza, A., Brotherton, D., & Flynn, M.. "Children of The Land, Fruit of the Ghetto." In M. Flynn and D. Brotherton (Eds.) Globalizing the Streets: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Youth Social Control and Empowerment. 2007: .
Flynn, M.. "Searching for Alternatives: Autobiography and Masculinity at the Bimillennium." In C. Strozier & M. Flynn (Eds.), The Year 2000: Essays on the End. 1997: 239-249.
Flynn, M.. "Hiroshima and the Silence of Poetry." In C. Strozier & M. Flynn (Eds.), Genocide, War, and Human Survival. Lanham. 1996: .
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Presented Papers, Lectures, And Exhibitions And Performances
"Caribbean Female Immigrants in New York: Reasons and Disillusions" 2012: Eastern Sociological Conference, NY, NY.
"Borrowing From Horror Flicks: The Migration of Torture and Violence from Horror to Action Films" 2011: School of Visual Arts Conference, NY, NY.
"Occupy New York: Lessons in Resistance and Domination." 2011: Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"A Slow or Fast Elevator? General Education Reform and the Question of Social Mobility" 2011: CUNY General Education Conference. Jamaica, NY.
"Dr. Goodard's Eugenics, Dr. Huntington's Nativism" 2011: National Ethnic Studies Conference. Claremont, CA.
"Caribbean Immigration and the American Dream" 2011: Eastern Sociological Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
"Hiroshima and the Writer" 2010: Wisdom of the Survivor Conference. NY, NY.
"Immigration, Nativism, and the American Dream" 2010: Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"Jesus' Body: Religious and Secular Images of Torture in Contemporary Film" 2010: Macauley Honors College Conference, NY, NY.
"Immigration and the Bulimic Society" 2009: Between the NIghtmare and the Dream: Immigration, The Bulimic Society and the Criminal Justice System Conference. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY.
"Documenting U. S. Torture during the "War on Terror.'" 2009: School of Visual Arts Conference. NY, NY.
"Reading 1984 in the Age of 'Inverted Totalitariansim:' Why Orwell Still Matters and Why, Perhaps, He Doesn't. Surveillance Societies: What Price Security?" 2009: MaCauley Honors College Conference. NY, NY.
"The National Security Demon and the Question of Nuclear Abolition. Nuclear Weapons after Bush: The Question of Abolition" 2009: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. NY, NY.
"Torture and the Psychologist as Terror -Warrior. The Interrogation and Torture Controversy: A Crises in Psychology" 2008: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. NY, NY.
"The Melodramatic Torturer: Paranoia, the Imagination of the Terror-Warrior, and the Destruction of Hope" 2008: International Human Science Research Conference. Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ.
"The War in Iraq: Four Years Later." 2007: Iraq War Teach- In. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, NY.
"Destroying Colin Powell" 2007: Presented at Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"No One Left to Torture... and the White Man Dancing: Leonard Cohen, Sadism and the Neoconservatives in the War on Terror" 2007: Presented at the On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other conference. NY, NY.
"Fighting to Get In: American Youth, Violence and Social Exclusion" 2004: International Human Science Research Conference, St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada.
"Returning to the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and Peace Education in an Age of Terror" 2003: Presented at the Peace and Justice Studies Association Annual Conference. Olympia, WA.
"Transcending Hysteria, Reimagining Patriotism: An Agenda for Higher Education" 2003: Presented at the Urban Hazards Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. NY, NY.
"Did September 11th Change Everything? Reflections on Violence and Agency" 2002: Presented at the International Human Science Research Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Revisiting the Question of Violence" 2002: Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Atlanta, GA.
"The World Trade Center Disaster, Survivor Guilt, and the Pursuit of Agency" 2001: Presented at the Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"Making Monsters Next Door and Across Town: Media, Social Scientists and the Production of Paranoia" 2001: Presented at the Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment Conference. The City University of New York.
"Monsters, Deviants, and the Boy Next Door: The Psychopolitics of the Fear of Youth in America" 2000: Presented at the Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"Youth Violence and the Questions of Selfhood" 2000: Presented at the International Human Science Research Conference, Long Island University.
"Nuclear Psychology and the Quest for Peace at the Millennium" 1999: Presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Division 48. Boston, MA.
"Youth and the Call of Violence" 1999: Presented at the Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"Moral Poverty or Threatened Self: An Inquiry into Youth Violence" 1998: Presented at the International Conference of Research on Aggression, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ.
"Violence and the Embedded Self" 1997: Presented at the Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change. George Washington University. Washington. D.C.
"Masculine Hope and the Apocalyptic" 1995: Presented at the Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History. Wellfleet, MA.
"Hiroshima and the Predicaments of Memory" 1995: Presented at Hiroshima Revisited Conference. CUNY Graduate Center, NY, NY.
"Hiroshima, Poetry, and Moral Responsibility" 1994: Presented at the Wellfleet Meetings on Psychology and History.
"Levinas, Bearing Witness, and Psychological Research" 1994: Presented at the International Human Science Research Conference, Hartford, CT.
"History and Psychological Research" 1992: Presented at the International Human Science Research Conference, Oakland, MI.
"The Male Incest Offender: A Self and Family Systems View" 1992: Presented at the Young Scholar's Colloquium, John Jay College/CUNY.
"French Feminism and Masculinity" 1991: Presented at National Men's Studies Conference, Tucson, AZ.
"Treatment Issues with Male Adolescent Victims of Sexual Abuse" 1990: Presented at the National Sexual Abuse Education and Prevention Conference, Indiana, PA.
"Invited Lectures" : .
"Screening Torture" 2011: Center on Terrorism, John Jay Colllege.
"Immigrant Women's Empowerment" 2010: Provost's Lecture Series, York College/CUNY.
"Democracy and Torture" 2008: London Southbank University.
"Itching to Torture" 2007: Sociology Department, John Jay College.
"Democracy and Terrorism: Lessons from the 'War on Terror'" 2007: Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Security, Istanbul, Turkey.
"Coping with Trauma and 9/11" 2007: Molloy College.
"Hiroshima and the Question of Nuclear Terrorism" 2005: International Peace Exchange, Ritsumeikan University. Kyoto, Japan.
"Nuclear Weapons and Cruelty and the War on Terror" 2005: International Peace Exchange, Nagasaki, Japan.
"Some Thoughts on Hope and Despair during the 'War on Terror'" 2005: International Conference on Family Therapy, Washington D.C..
"After 9/11, After 11/2: An Educational Agenda for the Second Nuclear Age" 2004: CUNY Graduate Center, NY, NY.
"Nuclear Weapons and the 'New Terrorism"" 2004: Charting a New Course for U.S. Nuclear Policy, Santa Barbara, CA..
"From Ignorance to Cautious Hope: Teaching an Antinuclear Curriculm" 2000: CUNY Graduate School, NY, NY.
"Violence and the Possibility of a Decent Society" 2000: Stop the Violence: Creating a Safer Community Forum, Queens Public Library.
"Kids and Art: Some Thoughts on Maintaining Discipline and Facilitating Creativity" 2000: Guggenheim/SOHO, NY, NY.
"Monsters Next Door or Troubled Teens? Some Thoughts on Youth Violence" 2000: Conference on Re-imagining Politics and Society, The Riverside Church.
"Youth and School Violence" 1999: Partnerships in Preventing School Violence. Teacher's Colllege.
"Teaching Art and the Hyperactive Child" 1999: Guggenheim Museum/SOHO, NY, NY.
"The Apocalyptic at 1000 and 2000" 1997: Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ.
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Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships
Grants-In-Aid
Japan Foundation Center, Wisdom of the Survivor Conference. May 2010: 7,500.
Pedro Cautrecasas Family Fund, Wisdom of the Survivor Conference. May 2010: 2, 500.
Pedro Cuatrecasas Family Fund, Torture after 9/11 Conference. Oct. 2003: 2,500.
W. Alton Jones Fellowship, Teach course related to Nuclear Weapons. 2001-2002: 2,500.
Institutional Service
- Service to the Department
Departmental Curriculm Committee: 2000-2003.
- Service to the School
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- Service to the College
Deputy Chair: 2010-2012.
Faculty Senate & Caucus: 2009-2011.
College Curriculm Committee: 2005-2008.
Aviation Institute: 2000-2004.
Film Festival (Short and Savory: A Film Festival of Short Films by Women Directors): 2010.
- Service to the Graduate Center
The Surviving Self: Spring 1994.
Trauma and Resilience: The Contemporary Self: Spring 1996.
- Service to the University
Associate Director, Center on Terrorism- John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 2001-2012.
Associate Director, Center on Violence and Human Survival, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 1991-2001.
Conferences (sponsored by York College and the Center on Terrorism, John Jay College): .
Torture after 9/11: 2003.
The Second Nuclear Age: 2004.
Al Queda: The New Face of Global Terrorism: 2004.
Shield New York against Nuclear and Bio-terrorism: A Call to Action: 2005.
Terrorism and the University: 2006.
Interrogation and Torture Controversy: Crises in Psychology: 2008.
Between the NIghtmare and the Dream: Immigration, The Bulimic Society, and the Criminal Justice System: 2009.
The Wisdom of the Survivor: 2010.
9/11 after 10 Years: Cultural, Personal, and Historical Perspectives: 2011.
- Service to the Department
Offices Held In Professional Societies
Other Professional Activities And Public Service
Guest Instructor: International Peace Exchange, "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Beyond" (Visited Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kyoto - sponsored by American University and Ritsumeikan University).
Psychotherapist: Private Practice (1994-2012).
Psychotherapist: Concourse House (Homeless Shelter for Woman and Children) (1998-2002).
Psychotherapist: Washington Square Institute (1992-1996).
Psychotherapist: Family Resources (1998-1991).
Director: Fresh Air Camp.
Psychotherapist: Northern Southwest Communities Mental Health (1989-1990).
Teaching Activities At This Institution
- Courses Taught (List)
Psych 102 Introductory Psychology Psych 215 Human Development 1 Psych 216 Human Developement 2 Psych 334 Personality Psych 401 History of Psychology Psych 332 Social Psychology Psych 338 Abnormal Psychology Psych 239 Psychology of Women Psych 283 Psychology of Death and Dying Psych 290-295 Field Work Psych 342 Group Dynamics Psych 353 Approaches to Psychotherapy Psych 370 Psychology of Consciousness Psych 217 Psychology for Parenting Psych 319 Human Cognition Psych 332 Psychological Assessment Phil 241 Philosophical Psychology Phil 202 Major Ideas and Issues in Education Psych 219 Psychology of Terrorism - New courses/programs developed (list):
Psych 200, Psychology of Evil.
Psych 200, Psychology of War and Violence in the Second Nuclear Age.
Psych 200, The Psychopolitics of Terrorism.
- Courses Taught (List)
