Dr. Robert McInerney is Professor Emeritus at Point Park University. His
research and 25 years of teaching have focused on the ontologies of becoming
human, relating primarily to ethical community engagement. Dr. McInerney has
utilized hermeneutic-phenomenological, queer, feminist, and post-structural
theories, as well as posthumanism methodologies. His courses included Critical
Social Psychology, Community Psychology, Zombies and Psychological Life, and
Ecopsychology, Posthumanism, Cyborg, and the Anthropocene. Dr. McInerney’s
publications address a hermeneutics of love within communities as well as the
resolute practice of communitas. He is the founder of the Mobile Thriving Respite,
which works with those unhoused and the street community. His most recent and
relevant publication is An Existential–Phenomenological Account of Community
Psychology in the APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
(2026).