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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 at the American University of Paris (AUP). He holds a PhD in Psychology (Human Development) from the University of Chicago (1997) and joined AUP in 2007. His work bridges narrative psychology, collective memory, and atrocity education, with a focus on perpetrator motivations and conflict resolution.
His research explores identity construction through narrative, including studies on Holocaust survivors, Palestinian-Israeli identities, and the role of language in violence. Schiff has authored/co-edited books including A New Narrative for Psychology (Oxford, 2017) and Life and Narrative (Oxford, 2017). He received the Theodore Sarbin Award (2016) for contributions to theoretical psychology.
As Department Chair, he teaches courses like Life Stories and Social Memory, and organizes high-profile conferences such as Words that Kill (2018). His current projects include analyzing narratives of Palestinian citizens of Israel and rethinking qualitative methods in psychological science.
