About Me
Jacob W. Glazier, PhD, LPC, NCC, has a doctorate degree in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. He has his Master of Science in Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree from Western Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Psychology degree from Augustana College. Currently, Dr. Glazier holds an Assistant Professor of Psychology appointment in the Department of Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology at the University of West Georgia. He is also periodically an online Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. His research tends towards a transdisciplinary approach via theoretical and philosophical models and includes subjects like critical theory, embodiment, and desire as well as their relation to praxis and clinical practice. He also provides therapy services online. His work has been published in academic journals that include Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Subjectivity, Mortality, Critical Horizons, Rhizomes, Journal for Cultural Research, and others.
My newest book collected contributions on the intersection of paranormal studies and critical theory: Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences.
I have also authored Arts of Subjectivity: A New Animism for the Post-Media Era under Bloomsbury Publishing.
In addition, I am the co-editor of the tri-yearly publication Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association continuing the legacy of parapsychological research at the University of West Georgia. I am interested in exploring the problematics of exceptional experience, psi as a critique of physicalist science, and the deconstruction of skeptical explanations of the paranormal. This approach I have referred to as critical parapsychology: How can researchers use the knowledge and tropes from parapsychology to challenge the hegemony of orthodox science?
I was the Program Chair for the 65th Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association. I am co-coordinator of the annual Bill Roll Lecture sponsored by the psychology program and Ingram Library's Special Collections.
With specific regard to psi studies, my main areas of research interest include ecology and the paranormal, animism, paranthropology, the philosophy of parapsychology, psychoanalysis and parapsychology, and trickster theory.