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Dinesh Sharma, PhD, is a cultural psychologist and marketing consultant with a doctorate from Harvard University. He has consulted for Fortune 500 clients for almost ten years across different industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotech, technology, media, publishing, and consumer products.

Sharma is a columnist for Asia Times Online , where he writes about globalization, politics, terrorism, AfPak region, and India-US relations. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College, NY.

He is the author/editor of three books and many peer-reviewed articles. His writings have appeared in a range of other newspapers and journals, including the Wall Street Journal Online, Far Eastern Economic Review, Middle East Times, Health Affairs, Biotech Law Review, Genomics, Society and Policy, International Psychology Bulletin and other scientific periodicals.

He lives in the Princeton N.J. area with his wife and two children.

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Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President"The first 18 years of President Obama's life, from his birth in 1961 to his departure for college in 1979, were spent in Hawai'i and Indonesia. These years fundamentally shaped the traits for which the adult Obama is notedhis protean identity, his nuanced appreciation of multiple views of the same object, his cosmopolitan breadth of view, and his self-rooted "outpost" patriotism. This is the first study to examine, in fascinating detail, how his early years impacted this unique leader." What is being said..."Academics, students and the public will be riveted by this compelling and original perspective about the formative years in the development of Barack Obama." ~ Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Clinical Psychologist and Author of Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians"Having read Obama's two books fairly carefully and having studied all of the President's speeches since 2007, I conclude that Sharma's volume trumps all others that are currently out, where the analytic lines of this book run deep and the narrative sometimes moves into a level of artistic brilliance."~Lawrence J. Friedman Professor, Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative, Harvard University, Professor of History Emeritus, Indiana University"This deeply researched book provides a new understanding of how Obama's varied childhood environments contributed to his development, his outlook as an adult, and make better sense of the man who became, as Sharma calls him, our 'first global president'." ~Robert A. LeVine is a Professor Emeritus of Education and Human Development and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harvard University"Dr. Dinesh Sharma has produced a masterful analysis of Barak Obama's psychosocial journey, insightfully commingling relevant theory and research, politico-historical data, and first-hand accounts from primary sources, producing an exhaustive depiction of Obama's evolution."~Holly O. Houston, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Director/Clinical Supervisor at Anxiety & Stress Center and Former Clinical Faculty at University of Chicago and University of Illinois"In this fascinating cultural biography, Dinesh Sharma casts an astute psychological eye on Obama's early years, revealing in the complex and multi-cultural identity that is Barack Obama, Americans may find new clues about who they are now and what America itself may become in the 21st century. " ~Dan P. McAdams, Author of George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream"In this far-reaching and penetrating portrait, Sharma validates that “the child is father of the man,” while showing a great sense of congruence between the multiple and multilayered geographical, cultural, and interpersonal forces that shaped Barack Obama and his pivotal role as President of the United States in these complex, global, and challenging times."~Professor Karen Vander Ven and Associate Professor Andrew Schneider Munoz, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh, PA "Sharma helps us understand the impact of the compelling life experiences that made the man who is now our President by describing not only who Barack Obama is but why he is the way he is."~ Jerry Burris, Former Editorial Page Editor, Honolulu Advertiser and co-author, with Stu Glauberman, of The Journey Begins: How Hawaii Shaped Barack Obama"Dr. Sharma has chosen the important task of showing us how Obama's thinking arose on a global scale, giving us a picture of Obama in Java, his relationships with the Indonesian step-father, strong-minded grandmother and a pragmatic idealist mother, who implemented social reform not just in Java or even in Indonesia but in other Southeast Asian countries and Pakistan and Kenya, best known for her work on micro-credits for women." ~Alice Dewey, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Available September 2011 from Amazon

Columns

A Gandhi for all Seasonshttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME06Df01.htmlShe had a Dreamhttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LA16Ae01.htmlA Black Man from Kenya and a White Woman from Kansashttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/MF25Ae01.htmlUS, China, and India Vie for 21st Centuryhttp://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/us-china-and-india-vie-for-21st-century-59669.htmlKnowledge, Organizational Evolution and Market Creationhttp://www.thepresidentpost.com/?p=315India Renews its Tryst with Destinyhttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KH22Df02.html The President as a Public Intellectualhttp://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MD22Dj06.html Push and Pull in Obama's Withdrawalhttp://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MF29Df01.html Mumbai Sees Return of a Familiar Fear http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MG16Df04.html Obama and Osama as Archetypes:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MI10Dj04.html India Finds A New Route on the Fast Track:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MH30Df02.html India Faces a Deal with the Devil:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MH19Df02.html Indonesia greets President Obamahttp://abcclio.blogspot.com/2010/11/indonesia-greets-president-obama.html Author's page on OpEdNews:http://www.opednews.com/author/author17607.html

Books

Childhood, Family, and Sociocultural Change in India

Socioemotional Development Across Cultures

Human Technogenesis

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The chapters in this volume demonstrate that the recent wave of innovation and adaptation to information technologies, giving rise to a new form of "human technogenesis," is fundamentally transforming our everyday interactions and potentially reconstructing the nature and process of human development. Human technogenesis is the constructive process of individual and sociocultural innovation and adaptation to the everyday interactions with information technologies, which significantly affects the developing and the developed mind.
There is a growing consensus among social scientists that childhood is socially and historically constructed, partly putting to rest the concerns of sociologists and anthropologists about the fallacies of psychological reductionism. Behavioral scientists have been increasingly mindful of the influence of contextual or environmental variables on human behavior, which has led to new formulations of culture or context.
This book deals with the nature of sociocultural change in India and its relevance for the scientific study of childhood, family environments and the process of human development. The view developed in this book is an interdisciplinary one, with a focus on social, developmental and psychoanalytic theory. On the one hand, the growing Indian middle class appears to be in the process of aspiring to be authentically Indian yet thoroughly modern; and on the other, there remains a search for the authentic Hindu self, best represented by the Hindutva movement and the BJP achieving political power.
Events

Fall 2011 Tour Dates - Let's Meet and Greet!Oct 9: West Windsor Public Library, Princeton Jct., NJ Oct 14: Fordham University, Lincoln Center, NY Oct 18: Barnes & Noble, Menlo Park, Edison, NJ Oct 19: Book Cellar, Chicago, IL Oct 21: Book Stall, Winetteka, IL Oct 28: St. Francis College, Brooklyn Hts, NY Special Guest - Maya Soetoro-Ng Nov 5: Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall, Honolulu, HI Special Guest - Maya Soetoro-Ng Nov 11: Barnes & Noble, San Mateo, CA Nov 14: Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ Special Guest - Maya Soetoro-Ng Nov 17: Harvard Coop, Cambridge, Boston, MA Nov 19: Barnes & Noble, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
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An Immigrant Looks at the Global Obamahttp://www.wwpinfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&Itemid=6&key=10-7-11obama Author and Obama's half-sister to discuss President's Upbringinghttp://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=46319Book Launch on President Obama's Childhood at Fordham University, Oct 14, 5PMhttp://www.pr.com/press-release/361275 http://www.facebook.com/FordhamUniversity and on RoadRunner:http://features.rr.com/article/0bgX3WH0NMc5G "Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia" at Educator's Week at B&N, Edison, NJ, Oct 18, 6PMEdison, New Jersey --http://www.newjerseyfocus.com/edison-new-jersey PRLOG.comhttp://www.prlog.org/11696521-barack-obama-in-hawaii-and-indonesia-at-educators-week-at-bn-edison-nj-tues-oct-18-6pm.html B&N, Edisonhttp://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/event/3112572Hybridhttp://blogs.starbulletin.com/inpolitics/hybrid-2/

Dinesh Sharma- Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesi

"Barack Obama in Hawai'i & Indonesia" by Dinesh Sharma.avi

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Dr. Dinesh Sharma

Senior FellowInstitute for International and Cross-Cultural PsychologySt. Francis College180 Remsen StreetBrooklyn Heights, NY 11201Asia Times Online1/13 Petchkasem Rd, Hua Hin, Prachuabkhirikhan, 77110, ThailandPhone: (66) (32) 513739 Fax: (66) (32) 513739Email: dsharma2020_gmail.com