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Roger Frie

Professor Emeritus
Faculty of Education

Overview

Roger Frie's academic career bridges psychology and the humanities and he has held appointments in both areas. Before coming to 51社区黑料in 2008, he taught at Harvard, Columbia, The New School, Northeastern, and Long Island Universities. He is a registered clinical psychologist, a psychoanalyst, and an interdisciplinary scholar. He holds two doctorates, one in psychology (Psy.D.) and the other in history and social philosophy (Ph.D). He was educated in Cambridge, London, and New York.

He is currently Professor Emeritus at 51社区黑料 and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is also faculty and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology and associate member of the Columbia University Seminar on Cultural Memory in New York.

His research focuses on Historical Trauma, Cultural Memory and Social Responsibility related to Racial Violence, Genocide and the Holocaust. He uses a variety of sources that include interviews, narrative studies, autobiography and family memoir, and archival research. See for example Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2017), Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Wounds of Silence: Legacies of Genocide and Racial Violence (Oxford, forthcoming).

His most recent scholarship includes a focus on the Indigenous genocide in Canada and includes research on St. Mary's Residential School in Mission, BC.

Podcast Interview

Discussing Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust. New Books Network, January 2018.  

To listen download the MP3 below.