Colin Wayne Leach

Colin Wayne Leach is Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where he also holds appointments as Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Graduate Faculty of Psychology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Data Science Institute, and Affiliate of the Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute. Leach received a B.A. and M.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995, and previously held faculty positions at the University of Connecticut, the University of California Santa Cruz, and the University of Sussex. Research interests include status and morality in identity, affect, and motivation; cognitive appraisal and coping; oppression, protest, and resistance; prejudice and related phenomena; and trans-disciplinary perspectives drawing on Africana Studies and social behavioral systems science. Leach received the Kurt Lewin Medal from the European Association of Social Psychology in 2017, is an elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology, and has received support from the Ford Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the European Science Foundation, and the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research.