Matthew H. Bowker

Matthew H. Bowker (M.H. Bowker), Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar and thought leader in psychology and political theory. Educated at Columbia University and the University of Maryland, College Park, he has taught and researched in universities for twenty-five years. He is currently Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at SUNY — University at Buffalo. Dr. Bowker is the author of more than twenty-five published or forthcoming books, as well as over forty scholarly articles and chapters spanning diverse fields and genres. He founded and co-edits Routledge’s cutting-edge book series, Psychoanalytic Political Theory, and holds several other advisory and editorial positions, such as Editor (North America) of the Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Editorial Board Member for several prominent scholarly journals. The U.S. State Department recently awarded Dr. Bowker a Fulbright Specialist grant in ‘Twenty-first Century Learning,’ by which he trained faculty and staff at a major university in Singapore in dynamic, subject-centered, and reflexive pedagogies. He has delivered over fifty keynote presentations at national and international conferences and professional development events, on topics ranging from critical thinking to group and organizational dynamics. He has been interviewed on NPR and in popular publications such as The Atlantic, Elle Magazine, and elsewhere as an expert at the crossroads of psychology and politics. Some of his recent and forthcoming books include: The Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society (with David W. McIvor, Eds.); Walls: Multi-Dimensional Essays; Rage’s Wager: Essays on a Difficult Affect; The Power of Being a Subject: Transcending Myth and Machine; Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal (with Amy Buzby, Eds.); The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of Culture and Politics (with David P. Levine); and Oblation—Essays, Parables, and Paradoxes.