J.T. (Jeremy) Burman, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor
E-mail:
j.t.burman rug.nl
Field/Discipline
Expertise
Broadly: history of psychology, history of biology, history of philosophy of science, history of logic, history of cognitive science, public understanding of science
Specifically: Theory and history of developmental psychology (esp. the Cold War popularization of Jean Piaget by American psychologists and educators), archival history (esp. the Rockefeller Foundation's funding of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology and "the crisis of logic"), biology as meta-theory in psychology (esp. Piaget's appeals to Waddington's epigenetics), historiography and historical methods (esp. Kuhn), knowledge translation & indigenization / internationalization, taxonomic incommensurability, indeterminacy in translation, PsycINFO
Specifically: Theory and history of developmental psychology (esp. the Cold War popularization of Jean Piaget by American psychologists and educators), archival history (esp. the Rockefeller Foundation's funding of the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology and "the crisis of logic"), biology as meta-theory in psychology (esp. Piaget's appeals to Waddington's epigenetics), historiography and historical methods (esp. Kuhn), knowledge translation & indigenization / internationalization, taxonomic incommensurability, indeterminacy in translation, PsycINFO
Other positions
- External service
- Roundtable advisory member for the Humanities, SSH domain, NWO
- Editorial Board / Consulting Editor, History of Psychology
- Editorial Board / Consulting Editor, New Ideas in Psychology
- Editorial Board / Consulting Editor, Review of General Psychology
- President of the Society for the History of Psychology (APA Division 26)
- Elected Fellow in History (Division 26) and Developmental Psychology (Division 7) & Full Member (with voting privileges) of the American Psychological Association
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- Internal service
- THP master coordinator & Internship coordinator
- Chief Editor & Chair of the Editorial Board for Mindwise-Groningen.nl
- Member of the Teaching Academy Groningen's Community of Practice on AI
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