History Log Presentations 2025
Healing From the Ground Up: Grassroots Activism and Psychology’s Role in the AIDS Crisis
Aviva Braun
Reclaiming Humanity: Prison Protests in Response to Behavior Control, 1969-1980
Ayesha Harisinghani
A Tale of Two (Counter)Insurgents
Lana Khamash
“Not yet wise enough, not yet loving enough”: An analysis of psychology’s response to consciousness raising in the 1960’s-70’s
Mia Greco
MATHURA CASE: Lenses on Sexual Violence & Justice
Shibani Chakravorty
The Attempt to Domesticate Women & the International Resistance of Women of Color
Marien Morales
Congratulations to our first year PhD students for completing their History Log Presentations!
Pictured above from left to right: Shibani Chakravorty, Lana Khamash, Marien Morales, Aviva Braun, Mia Greco, and Ayesha Harisinghani
About the History Log Projects:
The History Logs are completed in the first semester of the first year that students are in our program. It is a project that is worked on as part of a required lab course that supplements the Theoretical and Historical Foundations of Social/Personality Psychology I core course (taken concurrently). This project involves looking at a decade of the students' choosing and tracking developments and other happenings in three parallel tracks: 1) within critical social/personality psychology; 2) within some discipline, movement, tradition, etc. that is of relevance to students’ scholarly interests; and 3) one additional related theme of general historical interest. Students keep journals over the course of their log development in order to reflect on the research process and to keep track of how and what elements are included in or eliminated from the timeline that the log documents. These logs are developed over the course of the first semester in the lab and presentations based on the historical sources gathered in the log are developed and presented in a program-wide colloquium at the beginning of the spring semester.
