Yale psychology professor Valerie Purdie-Vaughns will give a lecture, "Stereotype Threat: Power Influences on Achievement, Motivation and Social Well-Being" on Wednesday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Hamilton College's Kirner-Johnson Red Pit. It is free and open to the public.
Purdie-Vaughns will lecture as part of the Diversity & Social Justice Project's "Activism in Academia" series. She will discuss her research on social identity threat, explaining how organizations, such as businesses and schools, can inadvertantly undermine the institutional trust and intellectual achievement of underrepresented minority students.
After completing her B.A. in psychology at Columbia University, Purdie-Vaughns directed the "I Have A Dream" Foundation of the Southfield Village Public Housing Project in Stamford, Conn. While later completing her doctoral work in social psychology at Stanford University, she worked as a research consultant to the CEO of Humanities and Sciences, and served on the search committee for the associate dean of Graduate Multi-Cultural Education.
For more information, please contact Janet Turvey of the Hamilton College Diversity and Social Justice Project, at (315)859-4288 or at jturvey@hamilton.edu.
