James Herrick, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor James Herrick is an interdisciplinarian. He has taught psychology, sociology, anthropology, and gerontology courses. His interests are in the fields of Ethnobotany (see “Ethnobotany” at Wikipedia.org), History of the Social-Behavioral Sciences, and Behavioral (cultural, social, psychological) Medicine. He is the author of Iroquois Medical Botany (Syracuse University Press) and has written chapters in The Anthropology of Medicine: From Theory to Method (Praeger) and Reassessment in Psychology: The Interbehavioral Alternative (a Festschrift in honor of pioneer behaviorist Jacob Robert Kantor 1888-1984). He has published articles in The Psychological Record, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, and The New York State Journal of Medicine, and wrote several articles for the Academic American Encyclopedia (Arete/Grolier). A book on the topic of gifted children is forthcoming.

Education

• Ph.D. University at Albany