Cross-Cultural Psych

Self-compassion as a Christian practice: A conversation with Dr. Joel Jin

Joel Jin, PhD, MATM, is an affiliate faculty at Sentio University's Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Program and an upcoming Acting Assistant Professor at University of Washington's Department of Family Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and a M.A in theology and ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. He was an Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University's Department of Clinical Psychology for the past 4 years. Joel is a co-author of Deliberate Practice in Multicultural Therapy, recently published by the American Psychological Association's Essentials in Deliberate Practice book series.

Study abroad as an opportunity to love our neighbors: A conversation with Dr. Sara Shaban

Sara Shaban is a critical/cultural scholar focused on the intersections between media, women’s social movements, and geopolitics in the Middle East. Shaban’s academic work is rooted within the theoretical frameworks of transnationalism and femonationalism. Her award-winning research is published in the International Journal of Communication and Communication and Critical Cultural Studies. She recently published her first book, Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse. Prior to life in academia, Shaban worked in U.S. local news as a producer before pursuing freelance journalism in Israel, the West Bank, and Sierra Leone. Shaban is fueled by her passion for social justice, specifically for immigrants and refugees. She was involved in initiatives to improve conditions for incoming refugees during the 2015 crisis and served as a volunteer and board member for the Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program in St. Louis. Additionally, she served as the communications director for the St. Louis based NGO Project Peanut Butter — an organization committed to the eradication of child malnutrition throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

Improving literacy instruction: A conversation with Dr. Jorge Preciado

Dr. Preciado joined the School of Education (SOE) faculty in 2010. Dr. Preciado teaches courses in Special Education and Teacher Education at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Dr. Preciado’s research specializes in literacy development, with a focus on Latino English learners and struggling readers among elementary school age students. Moreover, Dr. Preciado’s research includes decreasing problem behaviors and increasing academic engagement and social skills competence among Latino English learners. Dr. Preciado received his Ph.D. in Special Education with an emphasis in positive behavioral intervention supports (PBIS) and literacy from the University of Oregon.

Jeong (정) as a social obligation: a conversation with Dr. Loli Kim

Dr Loli Kim is a cross-cultural multimodalist-semanticist-pragmatist specialising in Korea. She received her Doctorate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, specialising in Korean studies, at the University of Oxford, where she is now Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Grant, researching the communication and folklore of Korea’s Haenyeo. She publishes widely on Asian communication and cross-cultural analytic frameworks, and was the winner of the Hendrick Hamel Prize in 2023 for her innovative contribution to Korean studies in her book Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Loli is also the Editor and co-visionary behind Bloomsbury’s Foodscaping Asia series, and Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Korean Studies.

The science of forgiveness: A conversation with Dr. Everett Worthington

Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Ph.D., is Commonwealth Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds a Faculty Affiliate appointment at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (Human Flourishing Program), and he is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia. He has published widely on the science of self- and other-forgiveness among other topics, and he has developed the REACH Forgiveness model (see www.EvWorthington-forgiveness.com [http://www.evworthington-forgiveness.com/] for free resources), supported in over 30 published randomized controlled trials, and other practical interventions to help people reach their potential.