天美传媒

UMass Boston

Devin G. Atallah

Devin Atallah

Department:
Psychology
Title:
Associate Professor
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Biography

Devin G. Atallah, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the 天美传媒. Dr. Atallah's research team in the Clinical Psychology Program is entitled: the Decolonial Antiracism Research & Action (DARA) Collective for Healing & Liberación. You can visit the .

Area of Expertise

Decolonial clinical community psychology praxis; Trauma, resilience, and healing justice; Racism and racialization; Resistance to settler colonialism, coloniality, and interlocking systems of oppression; Community-based, participatory, action-oriented approaches to research; Qualitative methods, situational analysis

Degrees

PhD, 天美传媒

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Atallah, D.G. & Masud, H.R. (2021). In J.N. Clark's & M. Ungar's Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence (pp 234-256). Cambridge University Press.
  • Atallah, D.G. & Dutta, U. (2021). Journal of Social Issues.
  • Atallah, D.G. (2021). In M. Ungar (Ed)'s Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change (pp.565-583). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Atallah, D.G., & Ungar, M. (2020). In N. Sveaass, P. Hagenaars, & T. Wainwright (Eds.), Human rights and human rights education for psychologists (pp. 193-206). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Atallah, D., Kramer, S., Al Bast, L., Stanley, B., Scales, D., Jawabreh, N., Alazzah, S., Abu Srour, M., Abedrabbu, H., Louis, H., Abu Srour, R., Alazzah, S., Al Mashakhah, M., Darwish, M., Ewise, A., Rumi, M., & Wispelwey, B. (2019). CHW Central.
  • Atallah, D.G, Contreras Painemal, C., Albornoz, L., Salgado, F., & Pilquil Lizama, E. (2018). Journal of Community Psychology, 46 (5), 575-597.
  • Atallah, D.G., Shapiro, E.R., Al-Azraq, N., Qaisi, Y., & Suyemoto, K.L. (2018). Qualitative Research in Psychology, 15 (4), 489-519.
  • Atallah, D.G., Djalali, A., Fredricks, K., Arlington, L., Bussio, M., & Nelson, B.D. (2018). Qualitative Health Research, 28(1), 98-111.
  • Atallah, D.G. (2017). Transcultural Psychiatry, 54 (3), 357-383.
  • Kronmuller, E., Atallah, D.G., Gutiérrez, I., Guerrero, P., & Gedda, M. (2017). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 23, 238-247.
  • Teran, V., Fuentes, M., Atallah, D.G., & Yang, Y. (2017). Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 48(1), 22-29.
  • Atallah, D.G. (2016). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 19, 92-100.

Additional Information

Dr. Atallah's work aims to engage decolonizing, narrative, and community-based participatory approaches to critical inquiry. As an activist, scholar, practitioner, and healer, Dr. Atallah focuses on understanding and directly contributing to intergenerational resistance, healing justice and decolonization/decoloniality. Dr. Atallah aims to honor and anchor his work in local and/or Indigenous knowledges of communities in struggle contesting racism and settler colonialism, primarily within his long-term partnerships with communities in Palestine; communities of color in Boston; and with Mapuche communities in Chile.

Teaching

Psychological Trauma; Community Psychology; Qualitative Methods; Multicultural Counseling