Walter Reich | |
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Born | July 6, 1943 |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Non-ficton |
Notable awards | AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility |
Spouse | Tova Reich |
Children | 3 children including David Reich |
Walter Reich is an American magazine editor, psychiatrist, and writer. He was the 2003 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
Appointments
[edit]In the past, Reich held the roles of director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, located in Washington, D.C. – ensuring its establishment as an educational institute with serious scholarship;[1] at Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut; a resident in psychiatry, working at the National Institute of Mental Health, located in Washington, D.C.; and was co-chair of the Committee of Concerned Scientists, located in New York City, New York.
As of 2015[update], he held the positions of: Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior at the George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C.; a contributing editor of The Wilson Quarterly; senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, located in Washington, D.C.; a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale University; and a professor of psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, located in Bethesda, Maryland.[2] He was a fellow of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.[3]
Awards
[edit]In 2003–2004, Reich received the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.[4] He has also received the Solomon A. Berson Medical Alumni Achievement Award in Health Science from the New York University School of Medicine.[5]
Publications
[edit]Reich wrote A Stranger in My House: Jews and Arabs in the West Bank (published by Holt), co-wrote State of the Struggle: Report on the Battle Against Global Terrorism (published by Brookings Institution Press), and edited Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind (co-published by Johns Hopkins University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press). He has also contributed to various publications, including:
Family
[edit]Reich is married to novelist Tova Reich (Sister of Rabbi Avi Weiss). They have three children, among them archaeogeneticist David Reich.[7]
See also
[edit]- List of George Washington University faculty
- List of people from Maryland
- List of people from Washington, D.C.
- List of psychiatrists
- List of Yale University people
References
[edit]- ^ "2003 Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Recipient". AAAS Awards. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
- ^ "Dr. Walter Reich, Ph.D., receives prestigious AAAS 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award". EurekAlert. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
- ^ Reich, Walter (January 30, 1983). "The world of Soviet psychiatry". The New York Times.
- ^ "Walter Reich". AAAS Archives & Records Center. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
- ^ "Walter Reich". George Washington University. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
- ^ Amarelo, Monica. "Dr. Walter Reich, Ph.D., receives prestigious AAAS 2003 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award". Bio-Medicine. Retrieved May 11, 2015.
- ^ Zimmer, Carl (March 20, 2018). "David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone". The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2018.