About Lyubansky
Mikhail Lyubansky, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the
Department of Psychology at the University
of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches Psychology of Race and Ethnicity and Theories
of Psychotherapy. His research interests focus on conditions
associated with changes in social identity and beliefs about race, ethnicity,
and nationalism, especially in immigrant and minority populations. He is
a regular contributor to edited volumes on popular culture, including Harry
Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and House, MD, published by BenBella and
recently co-authored a book on the Russian-Jewish diaspora: Building a
diaspora: Russian Jews in Israel, Germany, and the United States. Born in Kiev, Mikhail immigrated with his family to the United States
as a child in 1977.