The Psychology Colloquium series presents Dr. Sarah Gaither on “Diverse Perspectives: Contexts and Social Identities” on Friday, March 17, at 11:50 a.m. in Porter 102.
Gaither is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. Prior to
Dr. Sarah Gaither
starting at Duke, she was a Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Psychology Department and Fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago after earning her Ph.D. and M.S. in Social Psychology from Tufts University and her B.A. in Social Welfare from U.C Berkeley.
Her research focuses broadly on how a person’s social identities and experiences across the lifespan motivate their social perceptions and behaviors in diverse settings. More specifically, she studies how contact with diverse others shapes social interactions, how having multiple racial or multiple social identities affects different types of social behavior and categorizations of others, and what contexts shape the development of racial perceptions and biases from childhood through adulthood. Growing up as a biracial Black/White woman is what has fueled her research path.
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