Brian Schiff is the Esmond Nissim Professor of Psychology, and Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights, and Conflict Prevention. Schiff completed his Ph.D. at The University of Chicago, The Committee on Human Development, in 1997 and joined The American University of Paris in 2007.
Schiff is author of A New Narrative for Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2017) and co-edited Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is also editor of a special issue of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Rereading Personal Narrative and Life Course (Jossey-Bass, 2014), and Situating Qualitative Methods in Psychological Science (Routledge, 2018). He is the 2016 recipient of the Theodore Sarbin Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology).
Schiff’s current research examines the motivations of perpetrators of mass crimes, the concept of collective memory, and the social impact of atrocity education.
Schiff, B. (Ed.) (2018). Situating qualitative methods in psychological science. Routledge: New York.
Schiff, B. (2018). Introduction: Situating qualitative methods in psychological science. In B. Schiff (Ed.). Situating qualitative methods in psychological science (pp. 1-10). Routledge: New York.
Schiff, B. (2018). Understanding psychology, differently. In B. Schiff (Ed.). Situating qualitative methods in psychological science (pp. 85-99). Routledge: New York.
Schiff, B. (2018). Narrating as political action. In C. J. Hewer & E. Lyons (Eds.) Handbook of political psychology (pp. 114-133). Oxford: BPS Wiley.
University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, Alumni Profiles. https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/undergraduates/career-exploration/alumni-profiles2/research-and-academia/brian-schiff.html