Dear RSF:

Please join us next Wednesday, May 11th at 11:00 for Visiting Scholar Steven Roberts’ presentation “re-/we-/me-search.”

Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, where he has been since 2017. His research focuses on the psychological bases of racism and approaches on how to dismantle it. Roberts’ lab at Stanford has three major programs of research: Concepts of Race, Systems of Racism and Normative Reasoning. Roberts holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan. He was the recipient of both a Ford Foundation Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 2013.

At RSF he is integrating research from the social sciences and humanities into his theories on the psychological bases of racism and building on previous findings that the belief in white supremacy emerges early in childhood. He is working on three projects to advance the social scientific understanding of racism: a theoretical paper on descriptive-to-prescriptive reasoning, a theoretical paper on white supremacy, and three empirical papers on white supremacy in psychological science.