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US Peace Memorial Foundation |
Michael
D. Knox, Ph.D.
Chair
and Founder
US
Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Michael
D. Knox grew up on Grosse Ile, Michigan, and earned his Ph.D. in psychology
from the University of Michigan in 1974.
Dr.
Knox is Emeritus
Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mental Health
Law and Policy; Affiliate
Distinguished Professor, Department of Internal Medicine; and Affiliate Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Global Health at the University of South
Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida. He
is currently Chair of the US Peace
Memorial Foundation and Editor of the US Peace Registry.
Dr. Knox joined the USF faculty in
1986 as Chair of the Department of Community Mental Health and has held faculty
appointments as Distinguished Professor of Mental Health Law and Policy, Distinguished
Professor of Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Global Health, with joint
appointments in Psychology and Aging Studies. Spanning over 40 years, his academic
career has focused on issues of peace, ethics, disease prevention, death, and mental
health. He has been elected to a
variety of leadership positions nationwide and authored over 125 scholarly
presentations and publications, including several books and book chapters. Knox has been responsible for more than
$50 million in grants to USF. He
has served as President of the USF Faculty Senate and Chair of the Florida
Advisory Council of Faculty Senates.
He is founder of the Florida/Caribbean
AIDS Education and Training Center (1991) and the USF Center for HIV Education and Research
(1988). He was Director of both
centers until his retirement in 2011.
Prior to joining the USF faculty, he was Director of the Western
Tidewater Mental Health Center and on the faculty of Eastern Virginia Medical
School. In 2012, he retired his
license as a clinical psychologist in order to volunteer his full time to the
Foundation.
His
long-standing peace and antiwar activities began in 1965 in opposition to the
war in Vietnam. As a delegate to
the 20th National Student Congress, he introduced a successful resolution to
hold an antiwar demonstration in August of 1967 in front of the White
House. In 1970, Knox co-founded a
draft counseling center and in 1971 he blew the whistle on classified weapon
systems research at the University of Michigan. Since then, he has continued to engage
in speeches, debates, interviews and other actions regarding peace. He is an invited speaker nationwide on
the topics of Òbuilding a culture of peaceÓ and Òhonoring peace leadership.Ó
In 2005,
Dr. Knox founded the US Peace Memorial Foundation. He directs its nationwide effort to recognize peace leadership by writing and editing the US Peace Registry, awarding an annual Peace Prize, providing educational programs, and eventually
building a national monument - the US Peace Memorial - in Washington, DC. Dr. Knox believes that Òthese projects help
move us toward a culture of peace as we honor the millions of thoughtful and courageous
Americans who have taken a public stand against one or more U.S. wars or who
have devoted their time, energy, and other resources to finding peaceful
solutions to international conflicts.
We celebrate these role models
in hopes of inspiring other Americans to speak out against war and to work for
peace.Ó
His
biography is included in the 2017 editions of Who's Who in the World and Who's
Who in America. Professor Knox
is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for
Psychological Science. Fellow
status in both organizations is granted Òin recognition of outstanding and
distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology.Ó In 2005, he was inducted into Sigma Xi,
the international honor society of research scientists and engineers. In 1999, he served as a Visiting Scholar
at the University of Oxford in England, and in 2003 he represented USF at the
dedication of a new university in Pune, India.
Dr. Knox
was awarded the 2007 Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social
Justice at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association. The award is presented
annually by Psychologists for Social Responsibility and recognized him Òfor
more than four decades of outstanding contributions to peace and humanitarian
assistance.Ó His work promotes
cultural change, raising our awareness of efforts towards peace and increasing
future opportunities to challenge the promotion of war.
In 2011,
ÒWorld
Peace: A First StepÓ was published in the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, and is available at www.uspeacememorial.org/WorldPeace.htm. ÒA Cultural Shift toward Peace: The Need
for a National SymbolÓ was published in the journal Peace and Conflict.
Read this essay at www.uspeacememorial.org/article.htm. In 2009, ÒHonoring Peace and Antiwar
Behavior: The US Peace RegistryÓ was published in Peace Psychology. Read
it at www.uspeacememorial.org/Article2.htm.
Dr. Knox
currently lives in the Tampa Bay area.
John, his eldest son, is a computer and electrical engineer working in
Austin. His son James is a
civil/structural engineer working in Orlando.
NOTE:
The US Peace Memorial Foundation is not affiliated with any university or
government entity. The ideas
expressed on this website are the views of the Foundation or Michael Knox, and
do not represent the views of any university or government entity.
US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public
charity.
Donations to the
Foundation are tax deductible to the extent provided by U.S. law.
Copyright 2005-2017, US Peace Memorial Foundation, Inc.