Department of Psychology Staff - Sam McFarland

Dr. Sam McFarland

Professor Emeritus

Office:  GRH 3045
Phone:  270-745-4408
Email:  sam.mcfarland@wku.edu
Website:  http://people.wku.edu/sam.mcfarland/

Research and Teaching Interests

• Human Rights
• Ethnocentrism
• Authoritarian Personality
• Psychology of Religion

Courses taught

• Social Psychology
• Personality
• Human Rights

Brief biography

Dr. McFarland taught full time at Western from 1971 until 2003 and has been on "optional retirement" since then. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in the Soviet Union in 1989. He directed the University Honors Program from 1990 to 1998, and was named Distinguished University Professor in 1998.