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Jovan Byford is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.


Career and work

Byford is a native of Serbia. He received an M.Sc. in social and applied psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social sciences from
Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...
. His interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering and more generally, the relationship between psychology and history. Byford has been widely published, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles dealing with conspiracy theories,
antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
and Holocaust remembrance. He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory.


Books

*''Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović'' (Central European University, 2008). *''Discovering Psychology'' with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). *''Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction'' (Springer, 2011). *''Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations'' co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). *''Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans'' (Bloomsbury, 2020).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Byford, Jovan Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Kent Academics of the Open University Alumni of Loughborough University Scholars of antisemitism Social psychologists Historians of the Balkans Serbian people of English descent