Pavel Blagov | Source | Associate Professor of Psychology at Whitman College

Blagov attended a Russian language school and the American College of Sofia. His interests in human biology and philosophy of mind turned into the fascination with psychology that took him to Connecticut College, where he worked on research of personality linkages to autobiographical memories. Blagov embraced the values of a liberal arts education and empirical science, majoring in psychology and neuroscience/neurochemistry. He planned to become a psychologist.

At York University in Toronto, he worked on psychotherapy research. Blagov's research goals took him to Emory University in Atlanta, where he studied emotion-driven reasoning, the classification of personality pathology, certain forms of mild personality dysfunction and such severe disorders as borderline personality and psychopathy. He also trained in pedagogy and psychological assessment and therapy, and completed his predoctoral internship at Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan. Blagov says that he came to Whitman College because of the congenial atmosphere, the balance between teaching and research and the tradition of student-faculty research.

His teaching interests include personality, psychological measurement and testing, and courses about the classification and treatment of psychopathology. He also teaches research methods, research on sexual orientation, and forensic psychology, and is well-versed in basic neuroscience and psychopharmacology.