Joseph P. Gone is Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Anthropology) and in the Faculty of Medicine (Global Health and Social Medicine) at Harvard University, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. He earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1992 and his doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. During his graduate training, he served as the Charles A. Eastman dissertation fellow at Dartmouth College prior to completing his psychology internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Following a brief faculty appointment in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago, Gone served on faculty in the Department of Psychology (Clinical Science Area) and the Department of American Culture (Native American Studies) at the University of Michigan for sixteen years.
In his interdisciplinary scholarship, Gone examines the intersection of culture, coloniality, and well-being in Indigenous communities. An enrolled member of the Aaniiih-Gros Ventre tribal Nation of Montana, he has investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban American Indian settings.
Gone has published over 100 scientific articles exploring the cultural psychology of self, identity, personhood, and social relations with respect to Indigenous community mental health. These have included cross-cultural comparisons of therapeutic interventions such as psychotherapy and traditional healing. His articles have appeared in the American Psychologist, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, the American Journal of Community Psychology, and Transcultural Psychiatry.
A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association, Gone has delivered over 235 invited presentations, and was honored as a Noted Scholar by the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and as a Distinguished Visitor by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He has served on the editorial boards of eight scientific journals including the American Psychologist, Psychological Clinical Science, the American Journal of Community Psychology, and Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, and he has reviewed manuscripts for over 130 additional journals in the behavioral and health sciences. In 2007, Gone was elected to the board of directors of the national First Nations Behavioral Health Association and he remains an international collaborator for Canada’s Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.
A peacetime veteran of the U.S. Army and a former West Point cadet, Gone lives with his partner—the historian Tiya Miles—and their three children in Cambridge, MA.
Selected Fellowships and Awards
- Award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology, Society for Community Research and Action (APA Div. 27), 2024
- Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology, American Psychological Foundation, 2023
- Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine, 2021
- Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research, American Psychological Association, 2021
- Theodore Sarbin Award, Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA Div. 24), 2021
- Seymour B. Sarason Award for Community Research and Action, Society for Community Research and Action (APA Div. 27), 2021
- Distinguished Career – Contributions to Research Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race (APA Div. 45), 2019
- Fellow, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2017-2020
- Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2014
- Faculty Visitor, Katz Family Endowed Chair in Native American Studies, Montana State University, 2014-2015
- Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology (APA Div. 12), 2013
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 2010-2011
- Katrin H. Lamon Fellow, School for Advanced Research, 2007-2008
- Fellow, Ford Foundation/National Research Council, 2005-2006
- Fellow, Kellogg Scholars in Health Disparities, W. K. Kellogg Foundation/Center for Advancing Health, 2003-2004
Curriculum Vitae
A recent version of Joe Gone’s CV may be downloaded as a pdf file from this link: