Joyce Amen

(she/her/hers)

“With stately step now autumn comes, / Queenly in her proud career, / With garland decked in ripened fruits, / Comes to crown the bounteous year.” — Horace Beriah Chamberlain (1834-1861; photographed poem w/ permission from the Library of Congress [LOC], Washington, D.C.)

Education

  • CUNY-The City College of New York, Master’s degree in General Psychology (CASAC Track; 2022-2024)
  • CUNY-Brooklyn College, Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a minor in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (2018-2021)
  • CUNY-The City College of New York, Bachelor’s degree in History and Jewish Studies, with a minor in English Literature (2015-2021).

Academic Interests

My research interests include substance (mis)use, PTSD, trauma, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, homelessness, sexual trauma, disability justice, disability rights, transformative justice, prison abolition, policing, the effects of long-term bullying, the medical and mental health industrial complex, and ableism and ageism in schools and in the workplace.