1960s
Anthony J. Marsella, MA ’64, Alpharetta, GA, earned a PhD at Penn State in 1968 and is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, where he served as vice president for academic affairs from 1985-1989 and retired in 2003. He is also the past director of the World Health Organization Psychiatric Research Center in Honolulu and past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility, among other roles.
Marsella is known nationally and internationally as a pioneer figure in the study of culture, psychology and psychopathology; he challenged ethnocentric and racial biases in the assumptions, theories, methods and practices in psychology and psychiatry. Among many honors and awards, he received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1999 at a ceremony presided over by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II.
He has served as consultant to numerous national and international agencies and organizations, and he has published 21 books and more than 350 book chapters, reports, reviews and articles.
Much of his present writing is on peace, social justice and nonviolence. He currently serves on journal editorial boards and scientific and professional advisory committees. He is also senior editor for the International and Cultural Psychology book series for Springer-Nature Publications (New York), a 47-volume series.