Jennifer Richeson

Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception and Communication Lab at Yale University. She is a social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others. She is one of America’s leading scholars of interracial interactions, racial identity, bias and prejudice, cultural diversity, social inequality, and injustice. She has received multiple prestigious awards for her work, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. Richeson is the Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and Director of the Social Perception and Communication Lab at Yale University. Jennifer Richeson received an Sc.B (1994) in psychology from Brown University and a Ph.D. (2000) in social psychology from Harvard University. Since 2005, she has been an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern University, where she is also a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, she was a visiting fellow at the Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University (2004-2005) and an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Dartmouth College (2000-2005).