Joseph P. Gone is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Anthropology) and the Faculty of Medicine (Global Health and Social Medicine) at Harvard University. As an interdisciplinary social scientist with both theoretical and applied interests, Professor Gone has collaborated for nearly 30 years with American Indian and other Indigenous communities to rethink community-based mental health services and to harness traditional culture and spirituality for advancing Indigenous well-being. He does so from the perspective of a scholar who is trained in health service psychology, inspired by anthropology-style interpretive analysis, and committed to participatory research strategies. Examples of Professor Gone’s projects include comparisons of Indigenous cultural psychologies with the logics of the mental health professions, critical analysis of the concept of Indigenous historical trauma, collaborative development of the Blackfeet Culture Camp for community-based treatment of addiction, and commissioned formulation of the Urban American Indian Traditional Spirituality Program for orienting urban Indigenous peoples to traditional spiritual practices.

Sarah McClelland is Professor in Women’s & Gender Studies Dept. and Psychology Dept. at the University of Michigan. 

Dr. McClelland is a feminist psychologist who studies stigma and discrimination, with a focus on issues of reproductive justice and critical sexuality studies.

Her research examines how social and political environments unevenly shape people’s intimate lives. In addition, she critically evaluates how research methods too often obscure the effects of chronic discrimination and structural inequalities. She's studied this often in the domain of women's sexual health, including national and institutional policies that structure how information is provided (or not), how outgroups are treated, and how stereotypes make mistreatment and injustice appear to be expected and even deserved. Her current research focuses on how people in the U.S. think about abortion, particularly at the intersection of race and gender. She focuses on the role of everyday attitudes, beliefs, and emotions that continually shape the environment around those who seek abortion care. 

A major focus of her research has been the development of “critical methods,” which are methods that look beyond traditional evaluation procedures to assess subtle information about the role of imagination, history, and political rights in psychological data.