Biography
Joseph P. Gone is associate professor of Psychology (Clinical Area) and American Culture (Native American Studies) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 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 clinical internship at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
In his interdisciplinary scholarship, Gone explores the intersection of “evidence-based practice” and “cultural competence” in mental health services, embracing neither discourse uncritically even while struggling to reconcile the core commitments of these powerful professional imperatives. As a citizen of the Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana, he has specifically investigated these issues through collaborative research partnerships in both reservation and urban American Indian communities. Gone has published more than 30 articles and chapters addressed to the cultural psychology of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in “First Nations” community settings vis-à-vis the mental health professions, especially as these pertain to therapeutic interventions such as psychotherapy and traditional healing. His articles have appeared in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, and the American Journal of Community Psychology.
In 2009, Gone was the inaugural recipient of the Henry Tomes Award for exceptional contributions as an emerging leader in ethnic minority psychology. Previously, he served as a W. K. Kellogg Fellow in Health Disparities (2003-04), a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow (2005-06), and the Katrin H. Lamon Fellow at the School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience (2007-08). Gone has delivered over 60 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 five academic journals including Psychological Clinical Science, the American Journal of Community Psychology, and Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology; he has reviewed manuscripts for an additional 30 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 remains an international collaborator for Canada’s Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research. In 2010-11, he was a residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Most recently, Gone was the recipient of the 2011 Emerging Professional Award for “outstanding research contributions...within ten years of graduation” from Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) of the American Psychological Association.
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 Ann Arbor.
Curriculum Vitae
A recent version of Joe Gone's CV may be downloaded as a pdf file.