Michael Pettit, York University

Research

history of psychology affect podcast knowledge mobilization video interviews public understanding of science history

Latest papers

"Angela's psych squad": Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s.
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences · 2022 · first author
The con man as model organism: the methodological roots of Erving Goffman's dramaturgical self.
History of the human sciences · 2011 · first author
Joseph Jastrow, the psychology of deception, and the racial economy of observation.
Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences · 2007 · first author

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Encoding/Decoding Psychology: A Podcast Series on Public Psychology and its Discontents
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$49,846
Governed by Affect: The Public Lives of American Psychology since the 1960s
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$64,764
Governed by Affect: The Public Lives of American Psychology since the 1960s
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$99,246

All 6 grants and awards

4 publications.

01

"Angela's psych squad": Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s.

Pettit M

Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences2022First author

DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.22216 PMID: 35901240

02

The con man as model organism: the methodological roots of Erving Goffman's dramaturgical self.

Pettit M

History of the human sciences2011First author

DOI: 10.1177/0952695111398828 PMID: 21809510

03

Joseph Jastrow, the psychology of deception, and the racial economy of observation.

Pettit M

Journal of the history of the behavioral sciences2007First author

DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.20221 PMID: 17421028

04

"The joy in believing": the Cardiff giant, commercial deceptions, and styles of observation in Gilded Age America.

Pettit M

Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences2006First author

DOI: 10.1086/509948 PMID: 17367004

Encoding/Decoding Psychology: A Podcast Series on Public Psychology and its Discontents

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Pettit, Michael

Keywords: podcast; knowledge mobilization; video; interviews; public understanding of science; history; psychology; expertise; democracy

$49,846

Governed by Affect: The Public Lives of American Psychology since the 1960s

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pettit, Michael

Keywords: history of psychology; affect

$64,764

Governed by Affect: The Public Lives of American Psychology since the 1960s

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pettit, Michael

Keywords: history of psychology; affect

$99,246

Digital history of psychology

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Green, Christopher D.

Keywords: psychology; history of psychology; digital humanities; digital history; network; cluster; text mining; tag cloud; geographical information system; GIS; journals; authorship; functionalism; structuralism; laboratories; universities

$299,950

Social science, ideology, and public policy in the United States, 1961 to the present

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Pettit, Michael

Keywords: history; psychology; economics; social movements; policy

$14,000

The sex lives of animals in the age of Kinsey

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Pettit, Michael

Keywords: animals; sexuality; gender; history of science

$39,721

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: history of psychology Dear Professor Pettit, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper ""Angela's psych squad": Black psychology against the American carceral state in the 1970s." (2022), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Encoding/Decoding Psychology: A Podcast Series on Public Psychology and its Discontents" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]