Kevin B. MacDonald is a retired professor of psychology at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where he served on the faculty until around 2010 and received the Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Award in 1995. Earlier in his career, while in Connecticut, he conducted research on the behavior of wolves, particularly wolf-cub interactions. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in biobehavioral sciences from the University of Connecticut in 1981. MacDonald is the author of the controversial 'Culture of Critique' trilogy (1998, 2002, 2004), including 'The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements,' which advances theories portraying Judaism as a group evolutionary strategy that undermines Western gentile societies through intellectual and political movements. His work has been extensively criticized as antisemitic pseudoscience by organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League, and World Jewish Congress, which have attacked it as promoting conspiracy theories about Jewish influence. Despite condemnation, his ideas have been influential in white nationalist and alt-right circles. MacDonald identifies as a critic of multiculturalism and immigration, framing his research within evolutionary psychology, and continues to contribute to publications associated with his views, such as The Occidental Observer.