Biography:

Leswin Laubscher, PhD, counts teaching, research, and clinical experience as a psychologist in both the United States and South Africa. He holds degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Recent research interests and publications have examined the intersection of culture and psychology, apartheid and psychology, and the importance of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Frantz Fanon for psychology. His most recent books are “Levinas for Psychologists” (Routledge) and “Darkest before Dawn: Writings, testimonies and correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe” (Wits University & NYU Press). Dr. Laubscher teaches at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, but has also held external appointments at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and currently as Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.