Christopher Sonn
Christopher Sonn | |
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| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Chisholm Institute of Technology;
Victoria College; Victoria University of Technology |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Victoria University, Melbourne |
Christopher Conrad Sonn (born 1967) is an Australian social psychologist whose work in the area of community and liberation psychology focuses on intergroup relations, racism, White privilege, and non-dominant group responses to oppression. Sonn is Professor of Psychology at the College of Health and Biomedicine of the Victoria University, Melbourne (VU).
Sonn is a lead researcher in the VU Community Identity and Displacement Research Network, which studies issues related to indigenous peoples, social justice, racism, refugees, social inclusion, transnationalism and xenophobia. Sonn is the co-author of the textbook Social Psychology of Everyday Life and co-editor of the volumes Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Applications, and Psychological Sense of Community: Research, Applications, and Implications.