12 Facts About Herbert Kelman

Herbert Chanoch Kelman was an Austrian-born American psychologist who was the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University.

Herbert Kelman is known for his work on conflict resolution in the Middle East.

Herbert Kelman's family fled the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism, heading first to Belgium and then, in 1940, the United States.

Herbert Kelman was educated at Brooklyn College, where he majored in English and Psychology, and the Seminary College of Jewish Studies.

Herbert Kelman went on to receive his master's degree and doctorate in social psychology at Yale University in 1951.

Herbert Kelman did post-doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University while spending time teaching psychology at the Baltimore College of Commerce.

Herbert Kelman was a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan before returning to Harvard in 1968, where he remained for the rest of his career.

In 1971, Herbert Kelman helped circulate a petition calling on faculty members at Harvard to refuse to pay their federal telephone excise tax in protest against the US war against Vietnam.

Herbert Kelman was president of a number of academic societies including the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Peace Science Society, the Interamerican Society of Psychology, the International Studies Association, the International Society of Political Psychology, and the Psychologists for Social Responsibility.

Herbert Kelman died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 1,2022, at the age of 94.

Herbert Kelman was the recipient of the 2000 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in part for his service as "a model of the social responsibility of psychologists".

Herbert Kelman is a recipient of the 1997 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.