Harold Takooshian

Harold Takooshian is an American psychologist and academic perhaps best known as a premier authority on the Kitty Genovese case, having spent many years studying the subject.^[1] Takooshian graduated from City University of New York in 1979 with a PhD.^[2] He has been a member of the Fordham University faculty since 1975.^[3] Takooshian is a widely published essayist having penned articles for periodicals including; the Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless,^[4] International Psychology Bulletin^[5] and The Counseling Psychologist, among many other publications.^[6] Takooshian is currently a professor of psychology and Urban Studies at Fordham.^[2] He is a past President of Psi Chi the worlds' largest psychology honors society.^[7]

Tarkooshian has hosted a number of symposiums on the Genovese case,^[8] including; "Remembering Catherine "Kitty" Genovese: A public forum" to mark the fortieth anniversary of the event. Among the participants on the panel were the New York Times executive editor and columnist A.M. Rosenthal (1922-2006), who was so moved by the case that he went on to write "Thirty-Eight Witnesses: The Kitty Genovese Case",^[9] which brought worldwide attention to the incident, Charles Skoller, the prosecutor of the crime and author of "Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind the Kitty Genovese and Barbara Kralik Murder Trials", and several other experts in fields germane to the story.^[10]

He has also written at length on subjects relating to his own Armenian heritage, Armenia and Armenian Americans.^[11][12]

In 1987-88 he was a Fulbright scholar to the USSR and then In 2013-14 he was the recipient of a second Fulbright Scholarship, this time to lecture in the since his prior visit reconstituted nation of Russia under the aegis a project entitled "Social Psychology of City Life Across Cultures".^[13] Subsequent to this second scholarly visit the article "On the Russian-American Cooperation in Social Psychology (Professor H. Takooshian's Visit to Russia in September–December 2013)'", co-authored by Takooshian and Alexander Voronov was published by the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education.^[14]

Takooshian also authored several entries in Kenneth T. Jackson's The Encyclopedia of New York City published by Yale University Press.^[15]

He is often consulted by media sources on a variety of other current subjects; including in different instances; Donald Trump and political correctness,^[16] the Brian Williams embellishment of the truth imbroglio^[17] and the U.S. Federal sentencing of the radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.^[18]

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