Walter Reich
Walter Reich | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 6, 1943 |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| 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.
- Living people
- 1943 births
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American physicians
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American physicians
- American magazine editors
- American male non-fiction writers
- American psychiatrists
- George Washington University faculty
- Chairpersons of non-governmental organizations
- Directors of museums in the United States
- Journalists from New York City
- National Institutes of Health people
- Physicians from New Haven, Connecticut
- Smithsonian Institution people
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences faculty
- Yale University faculty
- Writers from Maryland
- Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
- Writers from New York City
- Writers from Washington, D.C.
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers