Professor and Head, Psychology Department at Texas A & M University - Commerce
E-mail address: thenley@tamu-commerce.edu
Website: http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/psychology/doctoralfaculty.htm
Tracy Branson Henley completed his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of Tennessee. Henley, now an Professor of Psychology and Department Head at Texas A & M – Commerce. He first accepted the position at MSU in 1991, and remained on the faculty through 2003. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and remains an active researcher in both cognitive psychology as well as the more historical and philosophical areas of the discipline.
His first book (co-edited with M.G. Johnson)-- Reflections on the Principles of Psychology: William James After a Century --was published in 1990 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. His second book, also a volume in the history of psychology, was co-authored with B.M. Thorne in 1997. That work-- Connections in the History and Systems of Psychology --represented Houghton-Mifflin's first effort in the upper-division psychology market. The book has appeared in two subsequent editions, and the 4th edition is planned. Along with these two texts. Henley has published several articles and organized a variety of national symposia on matters in the history of psychology.
A third book, The Phenomenology of Everyday Life , was released by Cambridge University Press in the Fall of 1997. Co-authored with Howard Pollio at the University of Tennessee and Craig Thompson at the University of Wisconsin, this volume attempts to provide the philosophical groundwork for a more qualitative approach to psychology.
At MSU, Henley was also active in a variety of other roles on campus from chairing the IRB (Institutional Review Board for human subjects in research) committee to serving as the faculty sponsor for the Strategic Card Game Association. His wife Lani Lyman-Henley is a Ph.D. Ethologist, and they have one son, Robert Alexander.
