Wagner College psychology professor Miles Groth is one of a dozen academics who have been called by Canadian Senator Anne C. Cools, of Toronto, to provide testimony at a weekend symposium and roundtable on family dynamics scheduled for May 7 and 8.
Cools has long been an advocate of shared parenting following divorce and the importance of the continuing presence of fathers in their children’s lives.
Groth has been one of the leading advocates for the creation of a new academic discipline which he and his colleagues refer to as “males studies,” distinct from the more commonly known “men’s studies.”
Miles Groth, a psychology professor at Wagner College, is a trained psychoanalyst who has been in private practice since 1977. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and his Ph.D. from Fordham University.
Groth serves on the editorial board of the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry. He is the editor of the International Journal of Men's Health, and editor-in-chief of Thymos: The Journal of Boyhood Studies.
Groth was one of the convenors of a preliminary conference on male studies in March 2010 that was hosted by Wagner College. An April 8, 2010 story about the conference, published in Inside Higher Ed, was IHE’s third most commented upon story of that month.
A new book co-edited by Miles Groth, “Engaging College Men: Discovering What Works and Why,” published in August, is a collection of essays by mentors of college men and high school boys on what works to increase their engagement as citizens and participants in the common good.
An article entitled “Man or Male?” by former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath, which focused on Groth’s work, appeared in the Times’ Week in Review section earlier this year.
Prof. Groth to testify in Canadian Senate
April 25, 2011
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