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Professional Background

Associate Professor of Psychology and Education

Educational Background

  • Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Ed.M., Teachers College, Columbia University
  • B.S., Boston University

    • Scholarly Interests

  • Group and organizational dynamics and the application of systems thinking to individual, team, and organizational performance.
  • Examining the influence of diversity and authority on leadership and followership behavior in groups, organizations, institutions, and society.

    • Selected Publications

    Cytyrnbaum, S., & Noumair, D.A. (Eds.). (2004). Group dynamics, organizational irrationality, and social complexity: Group relations reader 3: The A. K. Rice Institute, Jupiter, FL.

    Noumair, D.A. (2004). Diversity and authority conferences as a social defense. In L. J. Gould & L. Stapley & M. Stein (Eds.), Applied experiential learning: The group relations training approach. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press.

    Noumair, D. A. & Burke, W. W. (2002). The Multiplicity of Roles and Demands for the Leader as Partner. In L. Segil, J. Belasco & Goldsmith, M. (Eds.) The Leader as Partner.

    Burke, W.W., & Noumair, D.A. (2001). Personality assessment in organization development. In A.H. Church & J. Waclawski (Eds.), Handbook of Organization Development. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

    Reed, G. M., & Noumair, D. A. (2000). The Tiller of Authority in a Sea of Diversity: Empowerment, Disempowerment, and the Politics of Identity. In E. Klein & F. Gabelnick & P. Herr (Eds.), Dynamic consultation in a changing workplace. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press.


    Debra Noumair

    Debra A. Noumair

    Associate Professor of Psychology and Education

    Phone: 212-678-3395
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    Office Hours: Mondays 7pm to 8pm and Tuesdays 5pm to 7pm, and by appointment

    Office Location: ZB 218