Dr. Janet Kestenberg Amighi
Adjunct Professor Sociology/Anthropology
Faculty Center 40A
- Ph.D. University of Missouri
- M.S.S. Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Law and Social Policy
- B.A. Colorado State University
Educational Interests
- Cross-cultural childrearing and education
- Peoples and cultures of the Middle East
- Cross Cultural patterns in non verbal communication
Professional Membership
- National Association of Social Workers
Presentations
2003-04 "Facts on the ground: the Palestinian Israeli conflict." Princeton Middle East Society, Princeton University, November 2003.(also presented at: Philadelphia Ethical Society, White Dog Cafe, West Chester University, Immaculata University, and many area churches).
2000 "Integrating structure and creativity: A study of home based day care programs" Conference of Dance/Movement Therapy, Seattle Washington .
1998 "Cross cultural perspectives on social receptivity and ability to learn in de-animated individuals." Panel presentation at the American Orthopsychiatric Association Meetings, Washington D.C. April 1998.
1997 "Race and Ethnicity: Issues in Therapeutic Intervention," Panel Presentation at The Conference on Dance/Movement Therapy, Philadelphia .
1995 "Perceiving Hidden Emotions: The kinesthetic communication of emotions in Bali" Society for Cross Cultural Research, Savannah Georgia.
1994 "The nonverbal communication of affect: an anthropological perspective."KMP Conference, Antioch Graduate school, New England
1991 "Nonverbal Communication of Affects in Bali," with J. Kestenberg and I. Pinder. Paper presented to the Annual KMP Conference, Antioch Graduate School New England.
1990 "Maternal and Paternal Affect among the Zoroastrians of Iran" paper presented to the Middle East Studies Assoc. Conference, Invited member of panel, Child Rearing in the Middle East, San Antonio, Texas.
1989 "Anthropological Applications of the Kestenberg Movement Profile," paper presented to the Annual KMP Conference, Antioch University New England
1989 "Some Thoughts on Maternal Affect Cross Culturally" paper presented to the International Conference of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology. Univ. of Mass, Amherst .
1981 "Population Decline among the Zoroastrians of Kerman" paper presented to the American Anthropological Assoc. meetings, L. A.
1980 "The Iranian Revolution and Beyond" paper presented to the American Anthropological Assoc. meetings, Washington D.C.
1979 "Evolution of Zoroastrian Philosophy" paper presented to the Zoroastrian World Congress. NYC, NY.
Publications
Books
1999 Kestenberg-Amighi, I, Loman, S., Lewis, P. & Sossin, S. (Eds.) The Meaning of Movement developmental and Clinical Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile.
New Jersey : Gordon and Breach,. Text teaches understanding personality and child development through movement observation and analysis based on various psychological models of development.
1995 Zumpetta, T., Kestenberg Amighi, J. & McConetha, D. (Eds.) An Introductory Reader in Anthropology and Sociology, Long Beach, New York: Wittier.
1991 Kestenberg, J. & Kestenberg-Amighi, J. Kinder Zeigen, Was Sie Brauchen (Children Show What You Need). Saltzberg: Verlag Anton Pustet, A popularized version of an analysis of child development based on patterns of movement development.
1990 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. The Zoroastrians of Iran: Conversion, Assimilation, and Persistence AMS press, N.Y.
Articles and book chapters
2004 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. "Contact, Communication, and " Zero to Three in press.
2004 Amighi, J. & Lavin, J. The Labyrinth of solidarity: A diary of a union organizing drive and a first contract negotiation. Journal Individual Employment Rights vol. 10(3) 169-195(2002-03).
1998 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. and Loman, S. "The KMP in mind body movement work" in The Encyclopedia of Mind/Body Work, Greenwood Press, Wilmington, in press.
1996 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. and Amighi, A., "Zoroastrian Immigrants in the U.S.A." in The Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Cultures, New York: MacMillan Library.
1996 Kestenberg J. & Kestenberg-Amighi, J."Children in Concentration Camps," in The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust, J. Kestenberg, and I. Brenner (eds). American Psychiatric Press, pp. 1-26.
1991 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. "Child Rearing among the Zoroastrians of Iran,Encycopedia Iranica Vol. V, Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University, " Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.) Costa Mesa Calif: Mazda Publishers, pp.316-17 .
1991 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. & Finder, I., "Balinese Child Development as seen through Movement Patterns," in The KestenbergMovement Profile Studies, S. Loman (Ed.) Antioch New England Graduate School Press.
1990 Kestenberg, Amighi, J. "Some Thoughts on Maternal Affect Cross-Culturally," Journal of PreNatal and Peri-Natal Psychology, 5(2): 131 -46.
1990 "The Application of the KMP Cross-Culturally," in The Kestenberg Movement Profile P. Lewis and S. Loman (Eds), Keene New Hampshire: Antioch New England Graduate School Press, pp. 114-125.
1988 Kestenberg, J., Kestenberg, M. and Kestenberg-Amighi, J. "The Jewish Quest for Life and the Nazi Quest for Death," Proceedings of the Eisner Conference on the Psychological Perspectives of the Holocaust and Aftermath. Graduate School City Univ. of N.Y.
1988 Kestenberg-Amighi, J. "Dating Techniques" in Beginnings: Readings in Western Civilization R. Tappe, E. Rapp and L Backhand (Eds), Boston Mass: Ginn press, pp. 10-19.
1982 Book Review article on "Going to Iran" by K. Millet Worldview Journal 25(5).
1981 Book Review article on " USSR in Iran" by F. Fatemi Worldview Journal 24(5).