Ayurdhi Dhar
Assistant Professor
470-210-9367
adhar@westg a.edu
Melson Hall - Room 209
Office Hours
By appointment
Ayurdhi Dhar, Ph.D., is assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia. She has taught psychology in the United States and in India, where she also worked as a psychotherapist. Her research interests include the relation between schizophrenia and immigration, discursive practices sustaining the concept of mental illness, and critiques of a-contextual and a-historical forms of knowledge. She is the author of Madness and Subjectivity: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Psychosis in the West and India. She spends her time negotiating the guilt of being an ardent animal lover and meat eater.
- PhD, Consciousness and Society, UWG, 2017
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology)
- PSYC-2003 (Statistics in Psychology)
- PSYC-2220 (Qualitative Research Methods)
- PSYC-3150 (Abnormal Psychology)
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body)
- PSYC-3900 (Personality Theories)
- PSYC-4085 (Psychopathology and Culture)
- PSYC-4220 (Research Explorations)
- PSYC-4350 (Culture and Psychology)
- PSYC-4360 (Community Psychology)
- PSYC-4884 (Integrative Seminar)
- PSYC-6785 (Culture, Epistemology, & Psych)
- PSYC-7650 (Buddhist Psychology)
- PSYC-8581 (Decolonizing Pedagogy Through)
Fall 2023 Sections
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-7650 (Buddhist Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Summer 2023 Sections
- PSYC-3800 (Psychology of Mind/Body) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- PSYC-4220 (Research Explorations) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4360 (Community Psychology) Section: E01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Feminist Pedagogy Practicum) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- PSYC-4350 (Culture and Psychology) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-4884 (Integrative Seminar) Section: E02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-6785 (Culture, Epistemology, & Psych) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- PSYC-8581 (Decolonizing Pedagogy Through) Section: E03 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2020 Sections
- PSYC-3900 (Personality Theories) Section: 01
- PSYC-4085 (Horizon Seminar: Women in Psyc) Section: 07
Fall 2019 Sections
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 10
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 17
- PSYC-3150 (Abnormal Psychology) Section: E03
- PSYC-4350 (Culture and Psychology) Section: 04
Spring 2019 Sections
- PSYC-2003 (Statistics in Psychology) Section: 01
- PSYC-4085 (Psychopathology and Culture) Section: 02
- PSYC-4350 (Culture and Psychology) Section: E02
- PSYC-4350 (Culture and Psychology) Section: 01
Fall 2018 Sections
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: E07
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: E06
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: E04
- PSYC-1101 (Intro to General Psychology) Section: 18
- PSYC-2220 (Qualitative Research Methods) Section: 01
Dhar, A. (2019). Madness and Subjectivity: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Psychosis in the West and India. London and New York: Routledge.