Debra Harkins, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Psychology

Phone: 617.305.1926
Fax: 617.367.2924
Email: dharkins@suffolk.edu
Office: Donahue Building, Rm. 613

Education

• PhD, Clark University
• MA, Clark University
• BS, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Internship: Charles River Counseling Center; Postdoctoral Fellowship: Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Licensed Psychologist, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Specialty Areas

Social justice; diversity; empowerment; teaching; consultation; organizational development; community; narrative based research

My current interests include using action-based research and process consultation models with multi- cultural, underserved, and diverse communities with a special focus on empowerment, social justice and organizational development. Our project team works with nonprofit communities exploring the psychosocial impact of race, homelessness, social class, and gender on community and organizational development.

Selected Publications

Harkins, DA., Ray, S., & Davis, T. (2010) Diversity consulting and organizational development. Tamara Journal of Critical Organizational Inquiry. 9(4), 135-156.

Mizock, L., Harkins, DA., Ray, S., & Morant, R. (2011). Researcher race in narrative interviews on traumatic racism. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 20(1), 40-57.

Jefferson, D. & Harkins, DA. (2010) Expose of the emperor: Illusion of reverse discrimination. Journal of Unabridged Genius, 2(1), 9-22.

Mizock, L., Harkins, DA. & Morant, R. (2011) Going off script: Researcher interjecting in qualitative race research. Forum in Qualitative Social Research, 12(2), Art 13.

Ronayne, M., Harkins, DA., Austin, M., & Sharicz, C. (2010) Power and empowerment in a non-profit organization. American Journal of Psychological Research, 1(6), 58-88.

Courses Taught

PSYCH 324 - Psychology of the Identity and the Self
PSYCH 346 - Community Psychology
PSYCH 408 - Senior Seminar: History and Systems of Psychology
PSYCH 720 - Developmental Theory
PSYCH 729 - Social Justice, Race, and Ethnicity