Jovan Byford (born 1973) is a British Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University in the United Kingdom.

Career and work

Byford was born in 1973 in former Yugoslavia. ^[1] He received an M.Sc. in Social and Applied Psychology from the University of Kent and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Loughborough University. ^[2] His interests lie in the interdisciplinary study of social and psychological aspects of shared beliefs and social remembering and more generally – the relationship between psychology and history. ^[3] Byford has been widely publishing, authoring books, book chapters and journal articles based on conspiracy theories, antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance. ^[4] He is considered an expert in the study of conspiracy theory. ^{[5] [6]}

Books

• Denial and Repression of Antisemitism: Post-Communist Remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (Central European University, 2008). ISBN  978-9-63977-615-9
• Discovering Psychology with Nicola Brace. (The Open University, 2010). ISBN  978-1-84873-466-1
• Conspiracy Theories: A Critical Introduction (Springer, 2011). ISBN  978-0-23034-921-6
• Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations co-edited with Cristian Tileagă (Cambridge University, 2014). ISBN  978-1-10703-431-0
• Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia: Atrocity Images and the Contested Memory of the Second World War in the Balkans (Bloomsbury, 2020). ISBN  978-1-35001-598-2

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