History Log Presentations 2026
Culture as Praxis: Understanding Psychology’s Universal Problem
Robyn Attarian
A Tale of Two Doctors: Experiments in Behavior Modification and Behavioral Health
Monifa Bandele
Constructing Burnout & Breaking Unions: Psychology’s Role During the Rise of Neoliberalism
Elissa Berger
Nature, Justice & The Psyche: Tracing the conversation of people and the natural environment within and in proximity to psychology
Kendra Krueger
Children and Sexual Violence Piecing (and yearning for) the ‘Missing’ Feminist Legacy in India
Sakshi Shishir
Congratulations to our first year PhD students for completing their History Log Presentations!
Pictured above from left to right: Sakshi Shishir, Kendra Krueger, Robyn Attarian, Monifa Bandele, and Elissa Berger
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.
