Event Speakers
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Dr. Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi is a Hungarian born psychologist currently working as the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Csikzentmihalyi has a doctorate in Psychology from the University of Chicago and has served as the Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago and for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest College. While Dr. Csikzentmihalyi is recognized for his work in studying creativity and happiness, he is best known for his research on Flow Theory. Dr. Csikzentmihalyi has written several books on the concept of flow, including Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial, 1990) and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (Harper Collins, 1996).
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Dr. Robert J. Sternberg is currently the Human Development professor at Cornell University. Before his work at Cornell, Dr. Sternberg was the Provost and Professor at Oklahoma State University, the President at University of Wyoming, the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, and has served as the IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. He has also served as President of the American Psychological Association. Known for his work on the triarchic theory of intelligence and triangular theory of love, Dr. Sternberg has also done work in the fields of creativity, wisdom, leadership, and styles of thinking among others.
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Dr. Mark Runco is one of the leading scholars in creativity. He has devised numerous tests that measure creativity potential and performance. Dr. Runco received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Claremont Graduate School. Dr. Runco is also known for being the founder of the Creativity Research Journal and in 2014 he founded the Journal of Business Creativity and the Creative Economy.
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Dr. Michael Mumford has been faculty at both Georgia Mason University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Mumford received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and is recognized for his work in the fields of creativity and leadership. He has held the position of Senior Research Fellow and Managing Partner of the American Institutes for Research. Dr. Mumford is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Society.
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Dr. Vlad Glăveanu is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Counseling at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and his work focuses on creativity, innovation, imagination, culture, collaboration, craft and materiality. He edited the Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture (2016) and the forthcoming Creativity Reader (Oxford University Press, 2018). Dr. Glăveanu co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Creativity Across Domains (2017, with James Kaufman and John Baer) and the Oxford Handbook of Imagination and Culture (2017, with Tania Zittoun). He received in 2018 the Berlyne Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 10) for outstanding early career contributions to the field of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.
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Dr. Marjorie Taylor is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon. Her research is on the development of imagination and creativity, including studies of children who invent pretend friends and adult fiction writers who develop relationships with the characters in their novels. Taylor is author of Imagination Companions and the Children Who Create Them (1999, Oxford University Press) and the Editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination (2013, Oxford University Press).
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Dr. Ron Beghetto is Professor of Educational Psychology and Director of Innovation House at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Beghetto serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Creative Behavior and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Div. 10, APA). His research focuses on supporting creative thought and action in educational settings. Prior to joining University of Connecticut, Dr. Beghetto served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Education and Associate Professor of Education Studies at the University of Oregon.
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Dr. Kenneth Gilhooly is currently the Research Professor in Gerontology in the Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Health and Life Sciences at Brunel University London. Before working at Brunel University London, Dr. Gilhooly worked at University of Aberdeen. Dr. Gilhooly is known for his research in human cognitive psychology, specifically in the areas of thinking and problem solving, as well as the effects of aging on cognition.
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Dr. Michele Root-Bernstein is currently an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. She received her doctorate in History from Princeton University. Dr. Michele Root-Bernstein is known for co-authoring "Sparks of Genius: The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's most Creative People." Dr. Root-Bernstein is also known for her poetry published in A New Resonance 6, Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku (Red Moon Press, 2009).
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Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein is a scientist, humanist, and artist at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in History of Science from Princeton University. He then did his post-doctoral research on theories in Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. A MacArthur Fellowship (1981-1986) encouraged his multidisciplinary activities. He is currently a Professor of Physiology at Michigan State University where he studies the evolution of metabolic control systems, autoimmune diseases, drug development, and the creative process in the sciences and arts. Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein has written four books, including Discovering and Sparks of Genius.
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