Dynamic Semiosis

About Jaan Valsiner

Jaan Valsiner born in Tallinn Estonia is a cultural psychologist with a consistently developmental axiomatic base that is brought to analyses of any psychological or social phenomena. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal Culture & Psychology (since 1995) and Editor-In-Chief Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science (Springer since 2007). After working for over three decades in USA at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Clark University he accepted in 2013 the position of Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University Denmark in collaboration with University of Luxembourg and Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien in Austria and in Berlin. He focuses on theoretical innovation with monographs The Guided Mind (Cambridge Ma.: Harvard University Press 1998) Culture in Minds and Societies (New Delhi: Sage 2007) Ornamented Lives (Charlotte NC: Information Age Publishers 2018) and Sensuality in Human Living (Springer 2020). He has recently published a major theoretical treatise General Human Psychology (2021 by Springer) that would synthesize William Sterns personology with his theory of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics.  Jaan Valsiner has been awarded major research prizes in Europe: the Alexander von Humboldt Prize of 1995 in Germany and the Hans-Kilian-Preis of 2017. As part of his credo for building psychology on an international and trans-cultural basis he has been a visiting professor in Brazil Japan Australia Estonia. Germany Italy Luxembourg United Kingdom and the Netherlands.  Since 2017 he is a Foreign Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.