Jovan Byford

Jovan Byford
Born	1973 (age 51–52)
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Kent MSc Loughborough University PhD
Occupation(s)	Senior Lecturer Social studies scholar

Jovan Byford (born 1973) is a British Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Career and work

Byford was born in 1973, ^[1] in Serbia, then part of Yugoslavia. ^[2] He received an M.Sc. in Social and Applied Psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Loughborough University. ^[3] His interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering and more generally – the relationship between psychology and history. ^[4] Byford has been widely publishing, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles based on conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance. ^[5] He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory. ^{[6] [7]}

Books

• Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Central European University, 2008). ISBN   978-9-63977-615-9
• Discovering Psychology with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). ISBN   978-1-84873-466-1
• Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (Springer, 2011). ISBN   978-0-23034-921-6
• Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). ISBN   978-1-10703-431-0
• Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans (Bloomsbury, 2020). ISBN   978-1-35001-598-2

References

1. "Denial and repression of antisemitism by Byford, Jovan T. (1973-)". New York Public Library Digital Research Books.
2. Frazier, Danielle (27 June 2018). "Book Review: Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism: Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic". Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
3. "Dr. Jovan Byford". ushmm.rg. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
4. "Jovan Byford". The Conversation. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
5. "Dr Jovan Byford: Beyond belief: A critique of contemporary social psychology of conspiracy theories". Goldsmiths, University of London.
6. "Expert guide to conspiracy theories part 2 – who believes them and why?". The Anthill Podcast. 23 March 2020.
7. Byford, Jovan (22 July 2020). "Covid-19 conspiracy theories: 6 tips on how to engage anti-vaxxers". CNN. The Conversation.