Jovan Byford

Jovan Byford
Born1973
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Kent MSc
Loughborough University PhD
Occupation(s)Senior Lecturer
Social studies scholar

Jovan Byford (born 1973) is a British Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Career and work

Byford was born in 1973,[1] in Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia.[2] He received an M.Sc. in Social and Applied Psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Loughborough University.[3] His interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering and more generally – the relationship between psychology and history.[4] Byford has been widely publishing, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles based on conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance.[5] He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory.[6][7]

Books

  • Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Central European University, 2008). ISBN 978-9-63977-615-9
  • Discovering Psychology with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). ISBN 978-1-84873-466-1
  • Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (Springer, 2011). ISBN 978-0-23034-921-6
  • Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). ISBN 978-1-10703-431-0
  • Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans (Bloomsbury, 2020). ISBN 978-1-35001-598-2

References

  1. ^ "Denial and repression of antisemitism by Byford, Jovan T. (1973-)". New York Public Library Digital Research Books.
  2. ^ Frazier, Danielle (27 June 2018). "Book Review: Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism: Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic". Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
  3. ^ "Dr. Jovan Byford". ushmm.rg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  4. ^ "Jovan Byford". The Conversation. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Dr Jovan Byford: Beyond belief: A critique of contemporary social psychology of conspiracy theories". Goldsmiths, University of London.
  6. ^ "Expert guide to conspiracy theories part 2 – who believes them and why?". The Anthill Podcast. 23 March 2020.
  7. ^ Byford, Jovan (22 July 2020). "Covid-19 conspiracy theories: 6 tips on how to engage anti-vaxxers". CNN. The Conversation.