Rachel MacNair
| Rachel MacNair | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 4, 1958 |
| Education | Doctorate |
| Alma mater |
Earlham College (BA) University of Missouri–Kansas City (PhD) |
| Occupation | Activist, sociologist, psychologist, author, editor |
| Website | www.RachelMacNair.com |
Rachel M. MacNair (born November 4, 1958) is an American sociologist and psychologist who holds a consistent life ethic. A Quaker, she is an activist against abortion and war. She has written against the culture of violence and the eating of meat. An expert on veteran psychology, she coined the term "Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress" (PITS), a form of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that may result from the action of killing. She edited Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology.
MacNair served for ten years as the president of Feminists for Life, an anti-abortion organization, and she founded the Susan B. Anthony List to help elect pro-life politicians. She is a director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, the research arm of the Consistent Life Network.
MacNair was the valedictorian for her class at Paseo High School in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 1970s, MacNair was active in the anti-nuclear movement. In June 1978 she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, graduating with honors.
After a career in political activism, she entered a doctoral degree program at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1996. During her studies she was awarded an Arthur Mag Graduate Fellowship for outstanding scholarship, and a Chancellor's Special Merit Award in 1997, and a Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Fellowship in 1998. She earned a doctorate degree in Sociology and Psychology in December 1999, writing her dissertation: Symptom pattern differences for Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress in veterans: Probing the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study.
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