Muk received news that she was awarded the prestigious DAAD fellowship for next year, and she will be headed to Germany to continue her dissertation research on perceived discrimination among majority group members. She will be based in Kiel and working with Professor Bernd Simon. Congrats, Muk! For more information see https://clarknow.clarku.edu/2019/05/15/clark-students-receive-fulbright-and-other-prestigious-honors/
New article published: Intersectional Consciousness in Collective Victim Beliefs: Perceived Intragroup Differences Among Disadvantaged Groups
This article, based on parts of Rashmi Nair’s dissertation work and now published in Political Psychology, shows the importance of considering intersectional consciousness when examining collective victim beliefs. We examined these questions among Dalits and Muslims in India of various class backgrounds, considering intersecting identities of class, gender, and caste/religion. Link to the read-only version of the article is here: https://rdcu.be/bAO7d
New review published: Victim and Perpetrator Groups’ Divergent Perspectives on Collective Violence: Implications for Intergroup Relations
This review article, co-authored with Rezarta Bilali (NYU Steinhardt) and now published in Advances in Political Psychology, juxtaposes and outlines the different ways in which members of (former) victim and perpetrator groups construe the same events of collective violence, explaining the often entrenched conflicts over what happened and whether and how the events should be commemorated and redressed. For the abstract see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12570
JSPP seeks new Associate Editors to join our team
The journal I co-edit with Dr. Christopher Cohrs, the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, is looking for new Associate Editors to join our team. Please see https://jspp.psychopen.eu/announcement/view/19 for more information (nominations/applications are due by December 20th!)
Mukadder Okuyan receives SPSSI grant-in-aid
Mukadder Okuyan recently received a SPSSI grant-in-aid to help fund her dissertation research on “Perceived Discrimination among High-Status Majority Groups: Predictors and Consequences for Attitudes towards Social Justice-Oriented Policies”. Congratulations, Muk!
Dr. Rashmi Nair joins Ashoka University
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Dr. Rashmi Nair, a former member of our research group, just started a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Ashoka University in New Delhi, India! Congratulations, Rashmi!