Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity

People

CPLE Staff

• Division Chief Tracie L. Keesee, Ph.D. - Executive Director of Operations
• Phillip Atiba Goff, Ph.D. - Executive Director of Research
• Detective Chris Wycoff - Data Analyst
• Stacy Wigmore McCoy - Staff Coordinator

Denver Police Department Support

• Chief Gerald R. Whitman - Chief, Denver Police Department
• Deputy Chief John Lamb, JD - Deputy Chief of Operations, Denver Police Department

Board of Directors

• Phillip Atiba Goff - Executive Director of Research
• Tracie L. Keesee  - Executive Director of Operations
• Tom Tyler
• Delores Jones-Brown
• Jim Sidanius - Director of Research: Toronto
• Kay Deaux
• Sam Sommers - Director of Development
• Jack Dovidio  - Director of Training

Emerging Scholars

• Liana Maris Epstein
• Kimberly Barsamian Kahn
• Matthew Christian Jackson

Participating Researchers

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.

Tracie L. Keesee, Ph.D., Intercultural Communications, University of Denver

Tracie L. Keesee is a Denver Colorado native and 20 year veteran with the Denver Police Department (DPD).  She is the Division Chief of Research, Training and Technology and the co-founder and Executive Director of Operations for the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity.  Her previous assignments include, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 the Journal 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.

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.

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.

Eric Fritsch, Ph.D., Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University

Eric J. Fritsch is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas.  He is a former police officer and has worked extensively with law enforcement agencies for the past 20 years.  Dr. Fritsch has conducted studies on managerial and organizational practices in several law enforcement agencies in addition to numerous staffing and organizational efficiency studies.  He was project manager for a study designed to develop a standardized method for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of racial profiling information in the State of Texas and has worked extensively with the Texas Legislature regarding racial profiling legislation.  In addition, he completes annual racial profiling reports for several police agencies.

Dr. Fritsch has also been active in law enforcement training.  He has been a faculty member of the Institute for Law Enforcement Administration in their Management College and Supervision School and has conducted training seminars for the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board and for the Law Enforcement Management Insitute of Texas in its Executive Issues series.  Dr. Fritsch has also been a Senior Writer for the Law Enforcement Training Network (LETN) and has worked on the development of distance leanring initiatives for LETN.

He has authored and co-authored several journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.  His articles appear in numerous journals including Police Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, Law and Policy, Criminal Justice Policy Review and the American Journal of Criminal Law.  He has also co-authored a juvenile justice textbook, a textbook on digital crime and digital terrorism, and a book on police patrol allocation and deployment.

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.

Victoria Esses, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Toronto

Victoria Esses is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre 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.

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

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.

Linda R. Tropp, Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz

Linda R. Tropp is Associate Professor and Director of the Psychology 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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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
coordination between public health and law enforcement efforts aimed at at-risk populations and reduce health disparities by addressing disparities in the criminal justice system.  Previously, Leo has been involved with a broad range of research and technical assistance initiatives, including work with China CDC, ACLU Foundation of Delaware, the RAND Corporation, and the New York Academy of Medicine. During his doctoral training in law, Leo was a Senior Associate at Temple University School of Law, where he managed a portfolio of research and policy analysis projects dealing with the impact of law on health in the sphere of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, and human rights issues. He received his undergraduate training in geography from Vassar College and Oxford University, and a master’s in public health from Brown University.  Leo is a member of the New York State Bar.

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