Jonathan Potter

Jonathan Potter, DPhil, is professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. Dr. Potter is one of the founders of discursive psychology which focuses on how careful analyses of interaction can be a route to the understanding and sometimes even reworking of basic psychological questions. Throughout his research career, Dr. Potter has addressed fundamental issues of theory and method, and he has made substantial research contributions in the area of language and racism, the operation of helplines, family interaction, and the way emotion and cognition operate in communication. He a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, a fellow of the International Communication Association and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.