Our Valuable Team Members
Edward Dunbar, EdD is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California Los Angeles and a practicing psychologist in metropolitan Los Angeles. His clinical work addresses the issues of the treatment of workplace harassment, crime victimization, psychological trauma, and violence risk assessment. His publications have been in the areas of the clinical evaluation of racism, hate crime victimology, and intergroup relations. Dr. Dunbar’s commentaries have been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The American Psychological Association Monitor, The Washington Post, American Public Radio, The Prejudice Institute Newsletter, ABC Nightline, English Television’s Channel 4, Vermont Public Television, National Public Radio, and local television and radio news programs throughout California.
Amalio Blanco, PhD is a social and group psychology professor at the University Autónoma of Madrid. He is also a guest professor at several Latin American Universities in the fields of social psychology and community intervention. His currently research focus is on intergroup bias as a source of collective violence; psychosocial consequences (psychosocial trauma); and intervention programs to deal with the interpersonal, intergroup and community after-effects of collective violence, mostly in Colombia and El Salvador. He is the co-editor of Writings of Ignacio Martín-Baró: a social psychology professor at UCA University (El Salvador) and a jesuit priest murdered by the Salvadorian Army in 1989. Dr. Blanco has also written about violence and psychosocial trauma, as well as a book on terrorist attacks in Madrid 11-M, 2004. He has authored several papers and book chapters on these issues, with an special emphasis on the banality of evil and on his subsequent psychosocial trauma.
Desirée Crèvecoeur-MacPhail, PhD received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in social psychology and master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. She began studying hate crime perpetration, the topic of her master’s thesis and dissertation, in 1996. For over 15 years, she has worked in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California Los Angeles examining patient outcomes and program performance in the substance use disorder treatment system. Although Dr. Crèvecoeur-MacPhail focused much of her education in the area of violence research, she also has extensive experience in health research, including quantitative and qualitative methods and program evaluation. And she has authored over 24 papers, abstracts and book chapters covering topics such as: methamphetamine use (overall and in special populations), treatment effectiveness, and program evaluation.
Michael Fingerle, PhD is a psychology professor at Goethe University Department of Education, Institute for Special Education. He is also a senior investigator at the interdisciplinary research center IDeA (Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education) in Frankfurt. His research is focused on positive development and prevention and was co-PI of the European Commission sponsored project When Law and Hate Collide in 2011-13. He has co-authored a resulting report on the psychology of hate crime, partly based on the results of a survey with victims of hate crimes, members of target groups and NGOs, which were presented to the public by journal articles and interviews with public media. Besides research papers in international journals he has edited two books on school-based prevention and a book on resiliency in Germany.
Christian Munthe, PhD is professor of practical philosophy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, with a wide variety of research interests regarding ethics, value and policy issues in the intersection of health, science & technology, environment and society. He is a part of the Centre for Ethics, Law and Mental Health in Gothenburg and was co-PI of the European Commission sponsored project When Law and Hate Collide in 2011-13. He has co-authored a resulting report on the philosophy of hate crime, and is currently co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Interpersonal Violence on the same theme. His publications include The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine: Serving Society or Serving the Patient? (2012) and The Price of Precaution and the Ethics of Risk (Springer 2011).
David Brax, PhD, is a philosopher at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg. His research areas spans from moral psychology and meta-ethics to the philosophy of law. He specializes in philosophical aspects of hate crime and hate crime legislation, and he is currently doing a post-doc project about hate crimes in Europe at the Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg (CERGU).