Linda M. Woolf

Linda M. Woolf is a Professor of Psychology and International Human Rights at Webster University, where she is affiliated with the College of Science and Health and the Department of Psychology. She teaches courses on the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, terrorism, torture, ethics, and peace psychology at the St. Louis Main Campus.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Webster University and completed both her MS and PhD at Saint Louis University.

Her research expertise centers on the psychosocial roots of genocide, terrorism, and torture, with significant contributions to understanding hate groups, LGBT and women's rights, and diversity issues. She has developed widely adopted curriculum materials for genocide and Holocaust education and co-drafted the American Psychological Association's 2006 Resolution Against Torture. Her scholarly work includes publications such as Psychosocial Roots of Genocide: Risk, Prevention, and Intervention and Psychologists, Coercive Interrogations, and Torture.

Dr. Woolf serves as Past-President of the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, a Board Member of the Institute for the Study of Genocide, and a committee member for the Rafael Lemkin Book Award. She chaired the Task Force that developed the 2013 Policy Related to Psychologists' Work in National Security Settings.