People: Participating Researchers
| Nalini Ambady, Ph.D., Stanford University |
 Nalini Ambady, Professor, Stanford University, received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University and taught at Holy Cross College, Harvard University, where she was the John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Science, and Tufts University, where she was the Neubauer Faculty Fellow and Professor, before moving to Stanford University in 2011. Her research interests focus on the accuracy of social, emotional, and perceptual judgments, how personal and social identities affect cognition and performance, nonverbal and cross-cultural communication, and social and cultural neuroscience. She examines these phenomena from multiple perspectives ranging from the biological to the sociocultural. She is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1999), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Behavioral Science Research Award (1993), and the APA Division 5 (Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics) Dissertation Award (1994). She was also selected to deliver the Frederick Howell Lewis Distinguished Lecture, American Psychological Association Convention (2004). |
| Arthur Aron, Ph.D., Relationships, Social Cognition, Intergroup Relations, Social Neuroscience, University of Toronto |
 Dr. Aron’s research centers on the self-expansion model of motivation and cognition in personal relationships. His major current research programs focus on the following topics: (a) the cognitive overlap of self and other in close relationships, (b) how shared participation in novel and arousing activities can enhance relationship quality, (c) the role of friendship with members of ethnic outgroups in reducing intergroup prejudice, and (d) identify the neural circuits engaged by relationship-relevant cognitions and emotions. In addition, he is engaged in a major collaborative research program with Dr. Elaine Aron on the “highly sensitive person,” including studies of the interaction of childhood environment with this apparently inherited trait in predicting adult functioning. |
| Kate Antonovics, Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin |
 Kate Antonovics is a labor economist whose primary research interests are race and gender inequality, discrimination and affirmative action. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 2000 and has been on the faculty of the Economics Department at UC San Diego ever since. She has authored several papers examining the underlying causes of discrimination, including one that investigates racial profiling in the Boston Police Department. Her current research examines Proposition 209, a 1996 California State ballot initiative that prohibited the University of California System from using race as a factor in determining admissions, financial aid and participation in all other University-sponsored programs and activities. Antonovics is interested in the effect of this ban on high school achievement, college choice, college performance and choice of major. |
| Richard Banks, J.D., Harvard Law School |
 Ralph Richard Banks is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he taught since 1998. Much of his recent scholarly work has concerned the operation of antidiscrimination norms in the area of criminal justice. Relevant articles include Beyond Profiling: Race, Policing, and the Drug War, 56 Stanford Law Review 571 (2003) ; Racial Profiling and Antiterrorism Efforts, 89 Cornell Law Review (2004); and Race-based Suspect Selection and Color Blind Equal Protection Doctrine and Discourse, 48 UCLA Law Review (2001). Professor Banks has previously authored dozens of commentary articles in the popular press, including the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Professor Banks received Bachelors and Masters degrees from Stanford University in 1987 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1994. Prior to joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1998, professor Banks served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr., then of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Professor Banks also was a Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School and an associate at the firm of O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco. |
| Leo Beletsky, J.D., Temple University School of Law; MPH, Brown University |
Leo Beletsky’s research focuses on the role of formal law and law enforcement practices as structural determinants of health in the context of HIV/AIDS epidemic, as well as more broadly. Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Leo is working on research and interventions designed to improve |
| Monica Biernat , Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Kansas |
 Monica Biernat is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan, and has also taught at the University of Florida. Her research is on gender- and race-based stereotyping, focusing on how stereotyped beliefs guide judgments of and behavior toward individual men and women. Winner of the 1998 American Psychological Association’s Early Career Award for Scientific Contribution to Social Psychology, she is author of Standards and Expectancies (2005) and co-editor of Commemorating Brown: The social psychology of prejudice and discrimination 2008). She currently serves as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin, and has served editorial terms at theJournal of Personality and Social Psychology and Social Cognition. |
| Dana R. Carney, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Northeastern University |
 Professor Carney is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. Broadly speaking, Professor Carney studies connections between body and mind. She is interested in how humans reveal thought and feeling (conscious and unconscious) through subtle nonverbal behaviors, how nonverbal displays can shape one’s own thought, feeling, and internal physiological states, and how and when we use nonverbal behaviors as cues when trying to understand others’ thoughts and feelings. Professor Carney received her PhD in 2005 after which she spent time as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. |
| Joshua Correll, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder |
 Joshua Correll joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his M.A. from the University of Waterloo. Generally, his work involves intergroup relations, stereotyping and prejudice. His primary line of research uses a videogame simulation of a police encounter to examine bias in shoot/don’t-shoot decisions. His research interests include racial bias in the decision to shoot (stereotypic associations between Black people and danger and the moderating effects of training/expertise on bias), intergroup conflict and conflict over scarce resources, and the psychological value of group membership. |
| Yulia E. Chentsova Dutton, Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University |
 Dr. Chentsova Dutton studies the cultural shaping of emotion and supportive reactions to negative emotions. She aims, on one hand, to identify the processes by which cultural ideas and practices shape conceptualization of emotion, emotional experience and expression and, on the other, to apply this knowledge to our understanding of emotional distress. She is interested in how cultural tendencies and situational factors interact to shape the physiological, subjective, and expressive aspects of emotional responding in healthy and clinical populations. She is also interested in understanding cultural models of supportive reactions to negative emotions. Her current research has focused on trying to answer these questions: How are emotions associated with self-relevant cues across cultural groups? Does the influence of major depression on emotional responding differ as a function of culture? Does culture shape supportive reactions to expressed negative emotions and their effectiveness? |
| Jennifer Randall Crosby, Ph.D., Psychology, Stanford University |
 Jennifer Randall Crosby received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006, following a Stanford BA and an MS from Yale University. Dr. Crosby’s research addresses how personal beliefs, social norms, and situational goals interact to affect intergroup interactions. Specifically, Dr. Crosby’s research has examined how group difference can affect academic interactions, and what factors influence perceptions of prejudice and discrimination. This research has been published in journals such as Psychological Science and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and has been mentioned in media outlets such as Time Online and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Currently, Dr. Crosby is examining the conditions under which members of minority groups can influence perceptions of, and responses to, discrimination. Dr. Crosby is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Williams College. |
| Julie Cullen, Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Julie Cullen is a public finance economist whose primary research |
| Nilanjana Dasgupta, Ph.D., Yale University |
 Nilanjana Dasgupta, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on the malleability of implicit bias: what are the conditions under which the pernicious effects of implicit stereotypes on people’s attitudes, decisions, and actions change for the better? What are other conditions when implicit bias becomes worse? Dr. Dasgupta’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and several grants from the National Science Foundation, including the NSF CAREER award. She has published widely in leading psychology journals, law reviews, and interdisciplinary volumes. She was Associate Editor at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and has served in many capacities in international professional societies such as the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Dr. Dasgupta is an honorary fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). Through collaborations with legal scholars, judges, teachers, and other social scientists, Dr. Dasgupta actively applies her research findings to law, policy, and science and math education. |
| Paul Davies, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Waterloo |
 After completing his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Davies accepted a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University. In 2003, Dr. Davies started as an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In January, 2007 he moved to the University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan. The focus of Professor Davies’ research is intergroup relations. Specifically, one program of research examines diverse forms of social identity threat, and a second program examines the cognitive and motivational factors underlying stereotype activation and application. Dr. Davies research has been published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, and Psychological Science. Dr. Davies is a member of the Academy of Management (AOM), European Association of Experimental Social Psychologists (EAESP), Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). |
| Kay Deaux, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Texas at Austin |
 Dr. Deaux is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Psychology at New York University and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is an expert on immigration, as well as related topics of ethnic identity, stereotyping and gender. In her most recent book, To Be An Immigrant (Russell Sage, 2006), she offers a broad-gauged social psychological analysis of the immigrant experience, stressing the interdependence of macro-level factors, such as social policies and institutional practices, and individual and group attitudes and behavioral choices. Dr. Deaux has served as President of the American Psychological Society, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). She has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, New York University, and the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2001-2002) and twice a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1983-1984, 1986-1987). She has received numerous awards, including the Kurt Lewin award from SPSSI. Current projects include co-editing a forthcoming volume in theJournal of Social Issues on the topic of immigration, from the perspective of both host and immigrant, and the co-editorship of the Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. |
| Jack Dovidio, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Delaware |
 Dr. Dovidio is currently a Professor of Psychology at Yale University. Before that, he was a professor at the University of Connecticut and at Colgate University, where he also served as Provost and Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Dovidio has been Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology – Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes and Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He is currently Co-Editor of Social Issues and Policy Review. Dr. Dovidio is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the American Psychological Society. Dr. Dovidio served as the President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI, Division 9 of APA), Chair of the Executive Committee of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP, Division 8 of APA). He has published over 200 articles and chapters, is co-author of several books, including Emergency intervention; The Psychology of helping and altruism; The social psychology of prosocial behavior; and Reducing intergroup bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model; as well as co-editor of Prejudice, discrimination, and racism; Power, dominance, and nonverbal behavior; On the nature of prejudice: 50 years after Allport; and Intergroup misunderstandings. |
| Jennifer Eberhardt, Ph.D., Psychology, Harvard University |
 Dr. Eberhardt is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Before arriving at Stanford, she held a joint faculty position at Yale University in Psychology and in African & African American Studies. Professor Eberhardt conducts research on stereotyping and discrimination. She is particularly interested in how stereotypic associations of Black Americans with criminality can influence visual perception, attention, and memory. She has explored this topic with the lay public as well as with police officers from a variety of law enforcement agencies. Professor Eberhardt developed and directed the Policing Racial Bias project, a national project designed to bring together social psychologists and law enforcement officials to examine race in the policing context. In her most recent work she argues that Black Americans are not only criminalized, but also dehumanized in contemporary society. She is exploring the implications of this dehumanization across a variety of domains. Professor Eberhardt has been a fellow in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She has served on the Committee of Visitors for the National Science Foundation and on the Social Psychology, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes Study Section for the National Institute of Mental Health. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. |
| Victoria Esses, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Toronto |
 Victoria Esses is a Professor of Psychology and Director of theCentre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her research examines prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup relations, with a particular interest in issues surrounding immigration and cultural diversity. Her work has covered such topics as the role of perceived competition and threat in determining attitudes toward immigrants and immigration; the dehumanization of refugees; the framing of national identity and public attitudes toward immigration and cultural diversity; and the role of ethnic and religious prejudice in immigrant skills discounting. She is co-editor of Social Issues and Policy Review, a new journal of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Dr. Esses is currently Co-Director of the Welcoming Communities Initiative, a community-university research alliance developed to inform policy and practice for promoting the inclusion of immigrants and visible minorities in second and third tier cities in Ontario. |
| Alison Fragale, Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Stanford University |
 Alison R. Fragale is currently the Mary Farley Ames Lee Fellow and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.Alison’s research focuses on the determinants and consequences of power, status, and influence in organizations, conflict resolution and negotiation, and verbal and nonverbal communication. At Kenan-Flagler, Alison teaches courses on both effective leadership and negotiation skills. In addition, she has served as an instructor or consultant on leadership and negotiation for executives in numerous organizations, including ExxonMobil, Bayer CropScience, Eastman, the National Multi-Housing Council, AvalonBay, Post Properties, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy. |
| Adam Galinsky, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Princeton University |
 Adam Galinsky is currently the Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in Social Psychology and his B.A from Harvard University. Professor Galinsky has published more than 90 scientific articles, chapters, and teaching cases in the fields of social psychology and management. Professor Galinsky’s research has received national and international recognition from the scientific community. His dissertation exploring which individual strategies for managing diversity — perspective-taking versus stereotype suppression — were more effective in reducing stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination received the award for the Most Outstanding Dissertation from the International Association for Conflict Management and was a finalist for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award. In 2006, he was the sole expert witness in a defamation trial for a plaintiff who was awarded $37 million in damages. His research and insights have received numerous media mentions in The Economist, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Boston Globe and Chicago Tribune. His work on auctions was selected as for the 2006 Ideas of the Year by the New York Times Magazine. |
| Jack Glaser, Ph.D., Psychology, Yale University |
 Jack Glaser received his Ph.D. in psychology from Yale University in 1999 and joined the faculty of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley in 2000. He is a social psychologist whose primary research interest is in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. He studies these intergroup biases at multiple levels of analysis. For example, he investigates the nonconscious operation of stereotypes and prejudice using modern, computerized methods, and is investigating the implications of such subtle forms of bias for discrimination law and law enforcement. Additionally, Professor Glaser conducts research on a very extreme manifestation of intergroup bias - hate crime - and has carried out analyses of historical data as well as racist rhetoric on the Internet to challenge assumptions about economic predictors of intergroup violence. Another area of interest is in electoral politics and political ideology. He is specifically interested in the role of emotion (as experienced and expressed) in politics. Most recently, he has initiated research on capital punishment, the effect it has on legal decision making, and how that interacts with defendant race. Professor Glaser teaches courses Quantitative Analysis and Advanced Policy Analysis in the Goldman School’s Master’s in Public Policy program, as well as electives on prejudice and discrimination. Professor Glaser is involved in training California State judges in the psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how they might operate implicitly, and undermine fairness, in the courtroom. |
| Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Stanford University |
 Dr. Goff is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and also serves as the diversity consultant for the City and County of Denver and the Denver Police Department. He is the co-founder and executive director for research of the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity. He is an expert in contemporary forms of racial bias and discrimination as well as the intersections of race and gender. He has conducted groundbreaking work exploring the ways in which racial prejudice is not a necessary precondition for racial discrimination. That is, despite the normative conceptualization of racial discrimination—that it stems naturally from prejudiced explicit or implicit attitudes—Dr. Goff’s research demonstrates that contextual factors can facilitate racially unequal outcomes. Dr. Goff’s work has been recognized by NIMH, SPSSI, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is also the youngest member of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice advisory board for the Center on Race, Crime, and Justice. Dr. Goff has been recognized as a national leader in race and gender discrimination by legal practitioners as well, having served as an expert witness in several prominent regional and national cases. Most recently, Dr. Goff has been recognized as the emerging leader in research on race, gender, and policing. Dr. Goff spent the 2008-2009 academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Goff is the 2009 Early Career Award Recipient for APA’s Division 9 and Division 48. |
| John Hagan, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Alberta |
 John Hagan has won the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his pathbreaking research on genocide in the Balkans and Darfur. The prize will be awarded at a banquet on June 23, in Stockholm, Sweden. The Stockholm Prize in Criminology is awarded by an independent global jury “for outstanding achievements in criminological research or for the application of research results by practitioners for the reduction of crime and the advancement of human rights. Hagan, who holds a joint appointment with ABF as the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, is also the Co-director of the Center on Law and Globalization. His work on estimating the death toll in the Darfur region of Sudan has re-defined the scope of this tragedy as genocide. |
| David A. Harris, J.D., Yale Law School |
 David A. Harris is a professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. His research centers on law enforcement and issues of race, accountability, and the rule of law. Professor Harris is the preeminent authority on racial profiling, and a nationally recognized expert on police practices, police accountability, and search and seizure. His 2002 book, Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work (The New Press) demonstrated that the use of racial or ethnic appearance in police work actually harms police efforts to fight crime. His work on racial profiling became the basis for the legislation against racial profiling proposed in Congress by Representative John Conyers, and for laws enacted in more than half the states. His 2005 book, Good Cops: The Case for Preventive Policing (The New Press) showed that police departments can use preventive tactics to cut crime effectively while respecting the rights of the citizens they protect. He is the author of numerous articles in academic journals as well as newspapers and magazines. Professor Harris’s current research included projects on the procurement and use of search warrants in Allegheny County, PA; using GIS mapping to track citizen complaints against police; the use and rejection of scientific research by law enforcement; and enforcement of immigration law by local police agencies. He is a research associate with the Center for Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh. Professor Harris has conducted training for police, from chiefs and commanders to patrol officers, around the country. He is a former Senior Justice Fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York, and has presented his research in testimony to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and to numerous academic and professional groups. He has discussed his work on the Today Show, National Public Radio, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Dateline NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Slate.com, and many other news outlets. |
| Darnell Hunt, Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles |
 Darnell Hunt is the Directory of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies and Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Dr Hunt has written extensively on race and media, including numerous scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and popular magazine articles. He has also published three books about these issues: Screening the Los Angeles “Riots”: Race, Seeing, and Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 1997), O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions: News Rituals in the Construction of Reality (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2005). He also is editor (with Ana-Christina Ramon) of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities, forthcoming from NYU Press (Spring 2010). Prior to his positions at UCLA, he chaired the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California (USC). For more than a decade, Dr. Hunt has worked on several projects exploring issues of access and diversity in the Hollywood industry. He is the author of the last two installments of the Hollywood Writers Report, an analysis of employment access and earnings among television and film writers, released by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in 2005 and 2007. He also was principal investigator of The African American Television Report, released by the Screen Actions Guild in June of 2000. Dr. Hunt also has worked in the media and as a media researcher for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ 1993 hearings on diversity in Hollywood. Dr. Hunt is a frequent public commentator on questions of media and race. He has been interviewed for dozens of television and radio programs on the topic, and the findings of his research studies have been reported in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States and abroad. He also has participated in and moderated several panel discussions about media diversity sponsored by entities such as the Federal Communications Commission, the United Nations, and the Congressional Black Caucus, and numerous colleges and universities. Dr. Hunt received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from USC, an MBA from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA. A native of Washington, D.C., he has lived in Los Angeles for nearly 30 years. |
| Yuen Huo, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California - Berkeley |
 Yuen Huo received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996 until 1998, she was a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. Since 1998, she has been on the faculty of the UCLA Psychology Department. Professor Huo’s work uses both experimental and survey methodology to understand the dynamics of relationships among individuals within a group and between members of different groups (e.g., inter-ethnic conflicts). In particular, she seeks to understand how social identity needs and concerns about fairness affect the dynamics and outcomes of social interactions. In a recent line of work, she has explored how the quality of interpersonal interactions with group leaders and other members can influence both individuals’ willingness to act as a group member and their overall psychological adjustment. She has also conducted research to identify psychological barriers to intergroup cooperation especially in workplaces, schools, the legal system, and other communities characterized by high levels of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity. Professor Huo has published numerous research articles in scientific journals and book chapters in edited volumes. In addition, she has co-authored three books: Social justice in a diverse society, How different ethnic groups react to legal authority, and Trust in the law: Encouraging public cooperation with the police and courts. Her research on cultural diversity and intergroup relations was recognized by the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award. She has served as member of the governing board of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and has consulted with community and governmental organizations on social policy issues related to diversity and social conflicts. |
| Shanto Iyengar, Ph.D., Political Science, University of Iowa |
 Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. Iyengar currently serves as the editor of Political Communication (Taylor and Francis), an inter-disciplinary journal sponsored by the American Political Science Association and the International Communication Association. Iyengar’s teaching and research addresses the role of the news media and mass communication in contemporary politics. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen’s Guide (W. W. Norton, 2007), Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate (Free Press, 1995), Explorations in Political Psychology (Duke University Press, 1993), and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion (University of Chicago Press, 1987). Iyengar’s research has been published by leading journals in political science and communication. He is also a regular contributor to Washingtonpost.com. His scholarly awards include the Murray Edelman Career Achievement Award for research in political communication, the Philip Converse Award for the best book in the field of public opinion (for News That Matters), the Goldsmith Book Prize (for Going Negative), and the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Iowa. |
| James M. Jones, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Yale University |
 Dr. Jones is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Black American Studies Program at the Universality of Delaware, and former Director of the Minority Fellowship Program at the American Psychological Association. Dr. Jones earned a BA from Oberlin College an MA from Temple University; and his Ph.D. in social psychology from Yale University. He was been on the faculty of the Psychology and Social Relations Department at Harvard University, and has taught in the Psychology Department at Howard University. He published the first edition of Prejudice and racism in 1972, and the second edition in 1997. He is currently working on a new book, Beyond prejudice and racism: The Challenge of Diversity in Everyday Life with Jack Dovidio and Deborah Coates Vietze. In 1973, Dr. Jones spent a year in Trinidad & Tobago on a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship studying Calypso humor. This work led to the development of the TRIOS model of the Psychology of African American culture. Dr. Jones is a social psychologist, and serves on several editorial boards including the Journal of Black Psychology, and is past-President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He was awarded the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority, the 2001 Kurt Lewin Award by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9), and the 2004 Distinguished Psychologist Award by the Association of Black Psychologists. |
| Nikki Jones, Ph.D., Sociology and Criminology, University of Pennsylvania |
 Professor Jones earned her Ph.D. in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She is an expert in field research methods (i.e. direct observation, participant observation, and in-depth interviews). She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis on the intersection of race, gender, and justice. Her first book, Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence, is published in the Rutgers University Press Series in Childhood Studies. She is also interested in how policing practices shape the daily lives of African American men and boys in urban neighborhoods. Her next book is based on a multi-year neighborhood based ethnographic study that examines how African American men with criminal histories (adults and adolescents) change their lives, and their place in the neighborhood once they do. The study is supported by a William T. Grant Scholar Award for Early-Career Scholars (2007-12). |
| Delores Jones-Brown, J.D., Ph.D., Rutgers University |
 Dr. Jones-Brown is a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College, City University of New York, and a member of the CUNY doctoral faculty. She is also the director of the John Jay College Center on Race, Crime and Justice. She teaches in the area of criminal law, evidence, jurisprudence, police community relations, sociology of delinquency and perspectives on race and crime; and, is the author or co-editor of three books and numerous academic articles, book chapters and legal commentaries related to these topics. Her book, Race, Crime, and Punishment, which examines the impact of race across multiple criminal justice contexts, won a New York Public Library award in 2001. She is the 2008 recipient of the William Bracey Award from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives and the recipient of the 2006 Becky Tatum Excellence Award from the Minority and Women’s Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Her primary research focuses on the impact of crime, delinquency and the criminal justice system on African American males, particularly, their legal socialization. Two current projects focus on African American women in managerial positions within the criminal justice system, and the use of informants in drug prosecutions in New Jersey. In addition to her career as an academic, Dr. Jones-Brown has spent more than twenty years involved in criminal justice practice and consulting. Her work has included both institutional and community corrections, juvenile justice programming and a term as minority recruiter and assistant prosecutor in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Since 1997, she has been tracking the role of race in police use of lethal force in non-felony situations. |
| Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California Los Angeles |
 Dr. Kimberly Barsamian Kahn is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her M.A. in Social Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Kahn was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Social Research and Intervention at Lisbon University Institute in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Kahn’s research addresses contemporary forms of racial bias that are hidden, subtle, ignored, or unacknowledged by majority or minority group members within society. Using a social psychological approach with diverse samples, she has studied these biases across a variety of social justice domains and from both the target’s and perceiver’s perspectives. Dr. Kahn’s research with the CPLE examines factors that potentially exacerbate observed inequalities in treatment among members of different racial groups by police, including racial phenotypic stereotypicality, expectations of hyper-masculine responses, and actual hyper-masculine responses by officers and suspects. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the UCLA Graduate Division, and the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies. |
| Tracie L. Keesee, Ph.D., Intercultural Communications, University of Denver |
 Tracie L. Keesee is a Denver Colorado native and 24 year veteran with the Denver Police Department (DPD). She is currently assigned as the Department of Homeland Security/UASI Director for Denver. She is the, co-founder and Executive Director of Operations for the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity. Her previous assignments include, Division Chief of Research, Training and Technology, Patrol Districts 3 and 5 as Commander, Detective in Crimes Against Persons, the Public Information Officer for the Chief, Internal Affairs, the Police Training Academy, the Gang Bureau and Commander of the Information Technology Development Unit. Dr. Keesee holds a BA in Political Science from Metropolitan State College, Academic certifications in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver, an MA in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in Intercultural Communications. She is a graduate of the 203rd class of the FBI National Academy, and the 1994 class of the African-American Leadership Institute. Demonstrating a strong understanding of the need for community partnerships, Dr. Keesee has implemented the following programs: Montebello’s first community store front located in the Villages a Gateway; the literacy program, “The Reading Police;” Law Related Education (officer and teacher teams) in Martin Luther King Middle School, Omar Blair, and Montbello High Schools; Neighborhood Police Officers; Yes I Can Program (Gang Awareness program for youth transitioning from middle to high school); and the Latch Key Kids Project. Dr. Keesee also has an impressive list of publications across several collected anthologies and peer-reviewed scientific journals–all in the area of justice and law enforcement. |
| Jon A. Krosnick, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Michigan |
 Jon A. Krosnick is Frederic O. Glover Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of communication, political science, and psychology at Stanford University. A leading international authority on questionnaire design and survey research methods, Professor Krosnick has taught courses for professionals on survey methods for 25 years around the world and has served as a methodology consultant to government agencies, commercial firms, and academic scholars. His recent research has focused on how other aspects of survey methodology (e.g., collecting data by interviewing face-to-face vs. by telephone or on paper questionnaires) can be optimized to maximize accuracy. Dr. Krosnick is also a world-recognized expert on the psychology of attitudes, especially in the area of politics. For 30 years, Dr. Krosnick has studied how the American public’s political attitudes are formed, change, and shape thinking and action. His publication explore the causes of people decisions about whether to vote, for whom to vote, whether to approve of the President’s performance, whether to take action to influence government policy-making on a specific issue, and much more.Dr. Krosnick’s scholarship has been recognized with the Phillip Brickman Memorial Prize, the Pi Sigma Alpha Award, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for Excellence and Creativity, a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and membership as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. At Stanford, Dr. Krosnick directs the Political Psychology Research Group (PPRG). PPRG is a cross-disciplinary team of scholars who conduct empirical studies of the psychology of political behavior and studies seeking to optimize research methodology for studying political psychology. Dr. Krosnick also directs the Summer Institute in Political Psychology, an annual event that brings 60 students and professions from around the world to Stanford for intensive training in political psychology theory and methods. In his spare time, Dr. Krosnick plays drums with a contemporary jazz group called Charged Particles that has released two CD’s internationally and tours across the U.S. and abroad (www.chargedparticles.com). |
| Kenneth C. Land, Ph.D., Sociology and Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin |
 Dr. Land is the John Franklin Crowell Professor of Sociology and Demography and Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin did post-doctoral work in Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interests include statistical and demographic models and methods, criminology, demography, and health. He has published four edited books, one authored book, and over 150 research articles and chapters. Prof. Land has been identified by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most highly cited social scientists in the past decade. He has been elected as a fellow of five professional societies: the Sociological Research Association, the American Society of Criminology, the American Statistical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies. He has won several awards, including the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award from the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association. |
| Michael Motto, Cambridge Institute of Criminology |
 Michael Motto is completing his doctorate as a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. He is a Fellow of the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School, and in April 2010 was named a Truman National Security Fellow. Mr. Motto is currently researching police responses to diversity in London and New York City. His work incorporates an ethnographic study of race and diversity in the global city with critical attention to shifting paradigms within law enforcement and the legal infrastructure. This research is grounded in the belief that we can protect great nations while ensuring the civil rights and basic liberties of all citizens. Mr. Motto holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and Master’s of Philosophy in Criminological Research from the University of Cambridge. He has served as chief research assistant for an empirical study commissioned by the London Metropolitan Police of racial disparities within police activities and co-authored the final report. He has worked as a consultant for the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City and has been a Visiting Lecturer in Yale College, teaching courses on multiculturalism, law and order. Mr. Motto is a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Urban Research and Policy at Columbia University, and was appointed Visiting Scholar in the Law and Society Program at New York University from 2007-08. He serves annually as a volunteer judge on the social sciences panel of the New York City Science and Engineering Fair. |
| Hector Myers, Ph.D., Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles |
 The central theme of my research continues to be the role psychosocial stress and related factors (e.g. coping, social supports, personality characteristics, biological processes, etc.) play in physical and psychological health and well-being in African Americans and other ethnic minority populations. In my earlier research I focused primarily on ethnic differences in the role psychosocial factors play in disease. An important part of this work is the critical review of extant literature on major psychosocial variables implicated in health and disease and formulating theoretical models to explain how they might contribute to ethnic disparities in health. In recent years my work has evolved to include developing and testing behavioral interventions with high risk or impacted minority populations and investigating how these psychosocial factors moderate or mediate differences in response to these interventions. Specifically, my recent work includes collaborative studies in 3 areas: (1) investigating the biological and psychosocial effects of a stress reduction vs. life style interventions with African American adults and elderly with CVD, (2) research on lifestyle and other psychosocial factors in HIV/AIDS-related outcomes in multi-ethnic samples impacted by this disease, and (3) research on ethnic differences in the predictors of depression, in the expression of depressive symtoms, and differences in disease course and in pharmacotherapeutic response. (4) Research on mindfulness meditation and chronic diseases, especially HIV and CVD. |
| Michael Norton, Ph.D., Psychology, Princeton University |
 Michael I. Norton is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at the Harvard Business School. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and English from Williams College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University. Prior to joining HBS, Professor Norton was a Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he taught Marketing to both undergraduate and graduate students. His work has been published in a number of leading academic journals, including Science, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, and the Annual Review of Psychology, and has been covered in media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and theWashington Post. His research has twice been featured in the New York Times Magazine Year in Ideas issue, in 2007 (Ambiguity Promotes Liking) and 2009 (The Counterfeit Self). His “The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love” was featured in Harvard Business Review’s Breakthrough Ideas for 2009. |
| Jennifer R. Overbeck, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder |
 Dr. Overbeck’s research focuses on issues of power and social judgement, power in negotiations, and group processes involving power and status. She has authored papers for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, and Research on Managing Groups and Teams. Before attending graduate school, Dr. Overbeck worked in private business, most recently as vice president of operations for a national test-preparation company. She has provided process-change and program evaluation consulting for several small organizations and a state agency in Colorado. |
| Elizabeth Levy Paluck, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Yale University |
 Elizabeth Levy Paluck is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Before arriving at Princeton, she was an Academy Fellow at Harvard University. She received her PhD from Yale University in Social Psychology. Her research examines prejudice and conflict reduction, using large-scale field experiments to test theoretically driven interventions. Her empirical fieldwork is based in the United States and in Central and Horn of Africa, where she has tested the effects of the mass media, education, and interpersonal communication on tolerant and cooperative behaviors. Her work also addresses political cultural change and civic education. She is an affiliate of the Experiments on Governance and Politics research network and the Households in Conflict Network, and is the recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim grant. Prof. Levy Paluck has published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Social Issues, and the Annual Review of Psychology. |
| Yasser Arafat Payne, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Graduate Center-City University of New York |
 Yasser A. Payne is an assistant professor in the Black American Studies and Sociology Departments at the University of Delaware. Dr. Payne completed his doctoral work at the Graduate Center-City University of New York where he was trained as a social-personality psychologist. Specifically, he is interested in exploring notions of resiliency with street life oriented Black men using an unconventional methodological framework entitled: Participatory Action Research—the process of involving members of the population of interest on the actual research team. Dr. Payne just completed a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIH-NIDA) whereby he worked on a re-entry and intervention based research project in New York City’s largest jail, Rikers Island—a project designed to reduce: (1) recidivism, (2) drug use, and (3) other risky behavior leading to HIV/AIDS. His current participatory action research project is entitled: The Wilmington Street PAR project. This study, funded with a $200, 000.00 grant issued by the American Recovery and Investment Act, is a large-scale quantitative and qualitative ethnographic community needs assessment of the Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods of Wilmington, Delaware. Another arm of Dr. Payne’s work has focused on examining lyrics or voices of resiliency in Hip-Hop music. Dr. Payne also teaches a course at the University of Delaware entitled, Hip-Hop in the Black Community. Furthermore, he has published in a number of peer reviewed journals which include: Teachers College Record, Culture Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Journal of Black Psychology, Journal of Social Issues and the International Journal of Critical Psychology. Also, Dr. Payne has worked on several book chapters looking at notions of resiliency, racial identity, urban education, and participatory action research as well as co-authored a book publication entitled: Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown V Board of Education (Teachers College Press, 2004). |
| Victoria Plaut, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Stanford University |
 Victoria C. Plaut, a social and cultural psychologist, is Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard, a M.Sc. in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford. Dr. Plaut’s research on diversity, culture, and inclusion addresses the challenges and opportunities of working, living, and learning in diverse environments. Recent projects include studies related to diversity climate, diversity resistance, perceptions of inclusion, colorblind vs. multicultural models of diversity, gender diversity and recruitment, and models of deafness and disability, among others. Dr. Plaut has authored book chapters on diversity as well as academic articles in the leading journals in her field, such as Psychological Science and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, private organizations, and university grants. Dr. Plaut is on the leadership team of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity at the University of Georgia. She has consulted on diversity issues for a wide range of clients including school districts, universities, corporations, and health care organizations. Dr. Plaut’s research on diversity has appeared on NPR, msNBC, Chicago Tribune, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Diversity Matters and other media outlets. |
| Kavita Reddy, Ph.D., Psychology, Columbia University |
 Kavita Reddy is the inaugural CPLE postdoctoral research fellow. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia and B.A.s in Psychology and Economics from UCLA. Kavita’s primary research interests involve how individuals respond to psycohlogical threat (e.g., discrimination, bias, stigma) in self-protective ways. This research is motivated by the view that identities are in part constructed in response to context, and that this affects how one perceives and engages with one’s social world. This approach has informed her research interests in broader issues of inequalities and bias, particularly of racial and ethnic disparities, individual and environmental factors that contribute to the perception of threat, and interventions that target threat in an effort to reduce individual maladaptive behavior as well as social injustices. |
| L. Song Richardson, J.D., Yale University Law School |
 L. Song Richardson is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the law school’s Center for Law & Science. Professor Richardson is hailed as an expert on criminal law and procedure. Her distinguished legal career has included partnership at one of the nation’s most elite boutique criminal law firms. In that capacity, she represented high-profile criminal cases. Prior to that, she earned distinction as a state and federal public defender. Professor Richardson’s legal career has also included serving as a Skadden Arps Public Interest Fellow with the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, and later as Assistant Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Professor Richardson’s scholarship has been published by law journals at Cornell University, the University of California, Duke Law School, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota. Her most recent article, “Arrest Efficiency and the Fourth Amendment,” will be published in the Minnesota Law Review and utilizes the science of implicit bias to rethink Fourth Amendment doctrine and policing structures. She has been featured in numerous news programs (local and national), including 48 Hours. Professor Richardson teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Criminal Procedure, and Prosecutorial Ethics. |
| Laurie Rudman, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota |
 Dr. Rudman is a Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her research interests are intergroup relations and implicit social cognition with a focus on stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, especially with respect to how they deter gender and racial equality. She has served as an expert witness in several sex discrimination cases. The author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications and two books, she is currently Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her honors and awards include a National Research Service Award (National Institutes of Health), and winner (with Eugene Borgida) of the Gordon Allport Prize for the best paper on intergroup relations, given annually by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Dr. Rudman is an honorary fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She serves on the Advisory Council for the National Science Foundation and is a council member of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences. |
| Mark Sawyer, Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago |
 Mark Sawyer is currently an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science at UCLA and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. In fall of 2005 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in December of 1999. His current work includes a book entitled, ” Racial Politics in Post Revolutionary Cuba” that was recently published by Cambridge University press. His book received the DuBois Award for the best book by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association. He has written articles on the intersection between race and gender in modern Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and additional work on the impact of race relations on democratic transition in Cuba. He also has interest in the area of race, immigration and citizenship around the globe. He has published in the Journal of Political Psychology, Perspectives on Politics, SOULS, as well as the UCLA Journal of International and Foreign Affairs. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, and the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. |
| Craig S. Schwalbe, Ph.D., Social Work, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
 Dr. Craig Schwalbe has ten years of professional social work practice experience. In these ten years, he provided case management, individual therapy, and group therapy to children and families involved with the child welfare and children’s mental health systems as well as seriously mentally ill adults involved in the mental health system. In addition, his experience includes program development and program administration. His current research explores the effects of probation programs on the resilience of youthful offenders in the juvenile justice system. He is presently licensed as a clinical social worker in the state of North Carolina. |
| Joanna Schwartz, J.D., Yale University |
 Joanna Schwartz is Acting Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. She is a graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School. She was awarded the Francis Wayland Prize for greatest skill in preparing and presenting a case in negotiation and litigation for her work in Yale Law School’s Prison Legal Services clinic. Professor Schwartz’s research focuses on the role of lawsuits in organizational decisionmaking. She recently completed a study of the ways law enforcement agencies gather and analyze information from lawsuits that have been brought against them. In Myths and Mechanics of Deterrence: The Role of Lawsuits in Law Enforcement Decisionmaking, 57 UCLA L. Rev. 1023 (2010), Schwartz focuses on the information failures that often prevent informed decisionmaking. Her next project examines the ways that litigation information is used by law enforcement agencies – in the rare instances when it is used – to reduce the likelihood of future harms. Schwartz has begun studying organizational decisionmaking practices in other contexts, as well. |
| Amanda Kate Sesko, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Kansas |
 Dr. Amanda Kate Sesko is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Southeast. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2011. Her research focuses on stereotyping, prejudice, and social judgment with an emphasis on intersections of social categories (e.g., gender, race/ethnicity). In her primary line of work she investigates the effects of prototypical standards of race and gender on social perceptions and judgments of individuals. Specifically she is interested in understanding the processes and outcomes of invisibility as a unique form of discrimination that may characterize groups that do not fit race and gender prototypes – e.g., Black women (Sesko & Biernat, 2010). Her work thus far has documented such invisibility, conceptualized as alack of individuation of or lack of differentiation among group members. Invisibility is evident in perceivers’ treatment of Black women (or similarly situated groups) as interchangeable and indistinguishable, such that their individual voices and faces go unnoticed and unheard, relative to White women, Black men, and White men. Her dissertation and current line of research focuses on the antecedents (e.g., non-prototypicality, low power, low numerical status), and consequences of invisibility, and in particular strategies to reduce invisibility. |
| Patrick Sharkey, Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University |
 Dr. Patrick Sharkey is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at New York University, with an affiliation at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Harvard University, and recently completed a two-year fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program. Sharkey’s research analyzes how different aspects of places, including neighborhoods and cities, act to generate and maintain inequality across multiple dimensions. His recent research focuses specific attention on the impact of violence in children’s residential environments on cognitive functioning, health, and academic achievement. Sharkey’s forthcoming book, tentatively titled Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Inequality, is to be published with the University of Chicago Press in 2012. The book examines the transmission of neighborhood inequality to the generation of children who were raised during the civil rights era, and asks how the persistence of neighborhood advantage and disadvantage has affected trends in racial inequality. |
| Jim Sidanius, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Stockholm |
 Dr. Sidanius is a Professor in the departments of Psychology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Stockholm, Sweden and has taught at several universities in the United States and Europe, including the University of Stockholm, Carnegie-Mellon University, The University of Texas at Austin, New York University, and Princeton University. His primary research interests include the political psychology of gender, intergroup relations, institutional discrimination and the evolutionary psychology of intergroup prejudice. Dr. Sidanius has authored and published more than 100 scientific papers, and his books include: Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression (1999, Cambridge University Press), Racialized Politics: Values, Ideology, and Prejudice in American Public Opinion (2000, University of Chicago press), Key Readings in Political Psychology (2004, Psychology Press), and The Diversity Challenge: Social Identity and Intergroup Relations on the College Campus (2000, Russell Sage Foundation). Prof. Sidanius has won several awards, including being named as the recipient of the 2006 Harold Lasswell Award for “Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the Field of Political Psychology” awarded by the International Society of Political Psychology. Professor Sidanius was inducted into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. |
| Pamela Smith, Ph.D., Social Psychology, New York University |
 Dr. Smith is presently an assistant professor at UCSD at the Rady School of Management. Previously she worked in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Radboud University Nijmegen. She received her Ph. D. from New York University. Her dissertation received the 2005 Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Dissertation Award. Generally, her work deals with social power: how a person’s level of power changes the way he or she thinks and behaves, and what signs and signals we use to determine our own and other people’s levels of power. Her research demonstrates that having or lacking power fundamentally changes the way a person perceives and responds to the world, and that many of these effects occur without the person being aware of them or intending them to occur. |
| Samuel R. Sommers, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Michigan |
 Samuel R. Sommers is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan. Broadly speaking, he is an experimental psychologist who brings a social cognitive perspective to the study of intergroup interaction and legal decision-making. Much of his research focuses on race, including interests in stereotyping and social judgment, normative concerns in interracial interactions, and the effects of diversity on group processes and performance. Dr. Sommers has published original experimental research in journals including Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, and Social Issues and Policy Review. He has testified as an expert witness on racial bias and legal decision-making in murder trial proceedings in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oregon. In 2009 he received the Saleem Shah Award for outstanding early career research in psychology and law from the American Psychology-Law Society. |
| Nicole Stephens, Ph.D., Social Psychology, Stanford University |
 Nicole M. Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Kellogg School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University and her B.A. from Williams College. As a social and cultural psychologist, her research explores the ways in which the social world systematically influences how people understand themselves and their actions. Her specific focus is on how social class, race, ethnicity, and gender shape people’s everyday life experiences, as well as important life outcomes such as educational attainment and health. One line of Professor Stephens’s research examines how experiences in different social class environments affect the ways in which people understand the choices that they make in their daily lives. Another line of research investigates how first-generation college students, from diverse cultural backgrounds, adjust in response to the mainstream culture of higher education. Together her research illuminates how seemingly neutral assumptions about what it means to be a “good,” “normal,” or “educated” person reflect the culturally-specific perspectives of majority groups in society, and thereby contribute to social inequality. The underlying goal of this research is to develop more diverse and effective schools, workplaces, and communities. |
| Linda R. Tropp, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz |
 Linda R. Tropp is Associate Professor and Director of thePsychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her main research programs concern experiences with intergroup contact, identification with social groups, interpretations of intergroup relationships, and responses to prejudice and disadvantage. She has received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for her research on intergroup contact, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for distinguished research contributions from the International Society of Political Psychology, and the McKeachie Early Career Teaching Award from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Dr. Tropp has been a member of the Governing Council of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and she currently serves on the editorial boards of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. In addition, Dr. Tropp has been engaged in many efforts to integrate contributions from researchers and practitioners to improve intergroup relations. She has collaborated with national organizations to present social science evidence in Supreme Court cases on racial desegregation, and she has worked on state initiatives designed to improve interracial relations in schools. She now serves as a member of the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and Ethnic Diversity (JLICED), an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working to reduce racial and ethnic divisions and build social inclusive communities through effective early childhood education programs. |
| Tom R. Tyler, Ph.D., Social Psychology, UCLA |
 Tom Tyler is a University Professor at New York University, who teaches in the Psychology Department and the Law School. His research is concerned with designing effective strategies for the administration of justice in the courts and by the police. Professor Tyler has worked with the court to design procedures for managing the conflicts that come to court in ways that lead to decisions that are accepted by various parties. His work serves as the basis for the currently ongoing efforts to redesign the courts in California as part of the “Procedural fairness in the California Courts” initiative. He has also been active in studying the police and policing models in Chicago, California and New York. His work argues that legal authorities need to focus their attention around building and maintaining legitimacy among those people over whom they exercise authority. Legitimacy is important because it both facilitates deference to decisions made by judges and police officers and motivates people to cooperate with the authorities in managing conflicts and fighting crime in their communities. Professor Tyler received his Ph.D in 1978. Since that time he has taught at Northwestern University; University of California, Berkeley; and New York University. He is the author of several books, including The social psychology of procedural justice (1988); Trust in organizations (1996); Social justice in a diverse society (1997); Cooperation in groups (2000); Trust in the law(2002) Why people obey the law (2006); Legitimacy and Criminal Justice (2007); and Why people cooperate (in press). |
| Miguel M. Unzueta, Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business |
 Miguel Unzueta is an assistant professor of Human Resources & Organizational Behavior at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dr. Unzueta’s research explores how people understand their position within social and interpersonal hierarchies and the impact this understanding has on their perceptions of self, others, and group-based inequality. Dr. Unzueta also studies nonbeneficiaries’ beliefs about and attitudes toward affirmative action. His latest research explores the manner in which members of majority and minority racial groups define the concept of diversity. Dr. Unzueta’s research has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Social Issues. He is a member of the Academy of Management and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and is currently serving on the editorial board of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. |
| Vesla Weaver, Ph. D., Government and Social Policy, Harvard University |
 Vesla Mae Weaver received her doctorate from Harvard University in the joint programs of Government and Social Policy. Weaver’s research is focused on the causes and consequences of the growth of criminal justice in the United States. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Frontlash: Race and the Transformation of American Criminal Policy and Politics, which uncovers a connection between the movement for civil rights and the development of punitive criminal justice. The book grows out of her dissertation, winner of the Best Dissertation Award in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics given by the American Political Science Association. Weaver is also working on a collaborative book project on how the growth of multiracialism, immigration, the genomics revolution, and generational changes are reshaping the racial order in the United States (with Professors Jennifer Hochschild and Traci Burch). Her newest book project (with Professor Amy Lerman), Policing Citizenship: The Political Implications of Punishment for Civic Inclusion, Democratic Participation and Social Capital, examines the consequences of incarceration, discipline, and surveillance for community and individual-level engagement and political inequality. Weaver’s research has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Brookings Institution and is published or forthcoming in Perspectives on Politics, Studies in American Political Development, and Social Forces. |
| Christopher Wheat, Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, Harvard University |
 Christopher Wheat is an Assistant Professor of Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Behavioral and Policy Sciences Area at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University, an M.A. from Harvard in Sociology, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a B.S.E. from Princeton University in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Professor Wheat’s research addresses the role of organizational identity perception in determining performance and economic outcomes. His current research uses novel methodological approaches to examine the legitimacy of organizational choices as performance determinants. |