Jacob Glazier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology & Head of Psychology B.S. Undergraduate Studies Program
School of Social Sciences College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-0609
jglazier@westga.edfTMrpcUzC1T6u

Melson Hall - Room 118
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Jacob Glazier, Ph.D.

General Biography

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. Dr. Glazier is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia. His research revolves around critical theory, subjectivity, and exceptional experiences. He also practices psychotherapy. Dr. Glazier’s work has been published in academic journals that include Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, Subjectivity, Mortality, Critical Horizons, Rhizomes, Journal for Cultural Research, and others. He is the author of Arts of Subjectivity (2020) and editor of the PA Book Award-winning Paranormal Ruptures (2023). He is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled Critically Paranormal.

In addition, Dr. Glazier is the Lead Editor of Mindfield: The Bulletin of the Parapsychological Association. He is also the co-coordinator of the annual Bill Roll Lecture sponsored by the psychology program and Ingram Library's Special Collections.

You may find additional information and media by visiting his website and social media profiles on LinkedIn and X.

  • B.A., Bachelor of Arts, Augustana College, 2008
  • M.S., Master of Science in Education, Western Illinois University, 2011
  • Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology: Consciousness and Society, University of West Georgia, 2018

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Glazier, J. W. (Ed.) (2023, September). Paranormal ruptures: Critical approaches to exceptional experiences. Beyond The Fray Publishing. [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2022, December). Feminism at the forefront: A critical approach to exceptional experiences. Journal of Anomalistics, 22(2), 427-446. http://dx.doi.org/10.23793/zfa.2022.427 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2022, December). The last god: Lightning of turning in late Heidegger. Journal for Cultural Research, 26(3), 320-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2022.2154936 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2022). Clean, death, revolt: Sensual politics during quarantine. Awry: Journal of Critical Psychology, 3(1), 188-198. https://awryjcp.com/index.php/awry/article/view/49/24 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2021). Trickster theory: Feminism, animism, and post-colonialism. In R. Evrard, A. Ventola, & N. Koumartzis (Eds.), Mindfield: The bulletin of the Parapsychological Association, 13(1), 22-27. [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2021, January). Here lies… Hermetics, psychoanalysis, and ethnocentrism: Using Abraham and Torok to help explain the rise of reactionary social groups. Psychotherapy and Politics International. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppi.1575 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2020, October). The paranoia of popular culture: Lacanian psychoanalysis and music videos. The Popular Culture Studies Journal, 8(2.5). [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2020). Arts of subjectivity: A new animism for the post-media era. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/arts-of-subjectivity-a-new-animism-for-the-post-media-era-9781350085824/ [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2019, August). Piercing the veil with the trickster. In J. Hunter (Ed.), Greening the paranormal: Exploring the ecology of extraordinary experience (pp. 99-108). White Crow Books. [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. & Beck, T. (2019). A critical approach to abnormality. In R. K. Beshara (Ed.), A critical introduction to psychology (pp. 233-260). Nova Science Publishers, Inc. [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2019). Spiritual practices in the deep south: Queer theory and the African diaspora. In K. Strunk (Ed.), Queering spirituality and community in the deep south. Information Age Publishing.

Evrard, R., Toutain, C., Glazier, J. W., & Le Maléfan, P. (2018, October). The energy of despair: Do near-death experiences have an evolutionary value? Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000166 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. & Beck, T. (2018, August). Apocalypse, language, temporality: An alien encounter in Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”. Subjectivity, 11(3), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41286-018-0053-2 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2018, April). Tricking posthumanism: From Deleuze to (Lacan) to Haraway. Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory, 19(2), 173-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2018.1453299 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2017, June). Derrida and messianic subjectivity: A hauntology of revealability. Journal for Cultural Research, 21(3), 241-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1338600 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. (2016, December). Lacan, psi and the trickster: A psychoanalysis of parapsychology. Australian Journal of Parapsychology, 16(2), 163-193. [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W. & Roberts, J. L. (2015, August). Lacan in drag: The apotheosis of sexual difference. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 20(3), 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2015.45 [View Publication External Resource]

Glazier, J. W., Beck. T., & Simmonds-Moore, C. (2015, June). A phenomenological analysis of the relationship between grief, emotional crisis and anomalous experiences. Mortality, 20(3), 248-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2015.1015116 [View Publication External Resource]