JOSHUA W. CLEGG is associate professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and a member of the faculty in the Critical Social and Personality Psychology doctoral program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He is Past-President of The Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24 of APA) and currently an Associate Editor at American Psychologist. He has published widely on history, methods, and epistemology in the social sciences. His most recent book is Good Science, published by Cambridge University Press.
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Psychology 329: History of Psychology  In this course, students develop, integrate, and critique historical knowledge in the major psychological sub-fields. Material covered includes the social and cultural contexts, disciplinary movements, prominent figures, and events in fields like experimental, clinical, social, developmental, behavioral, biological, and cognitive psychology. The primary goals of this historical instruction are to help students build coherent frameworks for organizing and expressing their knowledge of the discipline, and to provide students with the tools to analyze and critique the discipline in transformative ways.

Psychology 715: Research Methods  The purpose of this course is to help students learn how to: search, read, interpret, and synthesize social science research literature; think and write critically about social science theory, method, and research; develop adequate research questions and hypotheses; and select and design appropriate research methods. This class will frame these activities as practical and moral, focusing not only on research theory, but on the everyday practical tasks and moral dilemmas that make up research.

Psychology 80101: Critical Psychology Lab I  A lab for developing research skills, focusing on crafting critical scholarship around the history of social and personality psychology.

Psychology 80103: Critical Psychology Lab II  A lab for developing research skills, focusing on crafting a research question, reviewing literature, and designing research.

The primary focus of my research is the history, theory, and social practice of science, methods, and epistemology in the social sciences. This includes empirical scholarship focusing on the social and technical practices of research work, historical scholarship on the institutions and methods of psychology, and theoretical scholarship on the epistemological foundations of knowledge in the social sciences. My most recent book, Good Science (Cambridge University Press), discusses each of these larger questions from the perspective of everday moral choices and moral practices. My current project applies insights from this work to an online Practical Research Ethics Curriculum (a work in progress).