2024

  • Daniel Sanji will join the CSI lab at Northwestern through the PhD program in Psychology

  • Daniel receives an NSF graduate research fellowship

  • Megan Burns will continue her work with the CSI lab at Northwestern through the PhD program in Psychology

  • Chyei Vinluan will continue her work with the CSI lab at Northwestern as a postdoctoral fellow

  • Construction on the new CSI lab space in Swift Hall has begun

  • The CSI lab will move to Northwestern University in Fall 2024

  • Michael Kraus accepts a new job at Northwestern University as a Professor of Psychology and a Morton O. Schapiro Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, will start in July (2024)

  • Michael delivered a presidential plenary address on the Science of Social Inequality at the annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology

  • Michael’s research was featured by the Russell Sage Foundation

2023

  • Chyei Vinluan joins the CSI lab as a postdoctoral fellow

  • Brittany (USC), Ajua (NYU), and Xanni (Penn) all begin new postdoctoral positions

  • Brittany Torrez successfully defends her dissertation: “On the barriers to diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations”

  • Ajua Duker successfully defends her dissertation: “Generating redemption narratives in response to discrimination”

  • Xanni Brown successfully defends her dissertation: “Causes and consequences of racial group status threat”

  • CSI lab research on promoting accurate perceptions of racial inequality is a finalist for the Prize for Research in Public Interest Communication

  • Michael writes about his tenure denial for the Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Michael delivers the annual Khodadad Lecture on Greed and Human Suffering at Boston University

  • Michael is a 2023-2024 visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation

  • Michael receives a grant to study Asian American racism through the Russell Sage Foundation

  • Michael writes an oped for the CT mirror about the importance of facing inequality

2022

  • Jun Won Park accepts a position at Amazon on their Diversity and Inclusion Team

  • Brittany Torrez wins the Promising Young Scholar Award from the PhD Project

  • Brittany wins the Heritage Dissertation Award at SPSP

  • Brittany wins the University of Zurich Future of Work Research Prize

  • Megan Burns joins the CSI lab through the Yale PhD program in organizations and management

  • Xanni Brown competed on Jeopardy and was amazing!

  • Ajua Duker became a Graduate Policy Fellow at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies

  • Enya Kuo accepts a job as a Data Analyst on the Diversity Team at Genentech

  • LaStarr Hollie receives a REAL fellowship award from UMASS

  • Cydney Dupree is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor

  • Cydney accepts a tenured position at University College London

  • Cydney writes an Oped on the anti-racist nature of remote work for the Hill

  • Michael Kraus is denied tenure at Yale SOM, but see all the support here and here

  • Michael writes an Oped on narratives of racial progress for the LA Times

  • Michael writes an Oped on how illusions of progress hamper actual progress for Aeon-Psyche

2021

  • Sa-kiera Hudson accepts a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas Business School

  • Julian Rucker accepts a faculty position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • Cydney Dupree wins the Sage Early Career Trajectory Award

  • Brittany Torrez wins the Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award

  • Jun Won Park begins their postdoctoral position at Princeton University

  • Jun Won Park successfully defends their dissertation: “Contending with social positions and social inequality”

  • Researchers Dana Harris and Anita Ding join the CSI lab

  • Brittany Torrez and Xanni Brown become Graduate Policy Fellows at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies

  • Brittany Torrez wins the Dean’s Emerging Scholars Award

  • Xanni Brown and Brittany Torrez both win a SPSP diversity travel (registration) award

  • CSI lab member LaStarr Hollie begins her PhD training at University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2020

  • Bennett Callaghan (CUNY, Stone Center), Julian Rucker (UNC Chapel Hill), and Sa-kiera Hudson (Yale) begin their postdoctoral appointments

  • Julian Rucker successfully defends his dissertation: “Thinking structurally: The antecedents and consequences of a structural understanding of discrimination”

  • Bennett Callaghan successfully defends his dissertation: “The roles of racial threat and racialized narratives in White Americans’ opposition to economic equality”

  • CSI lab alum Pamela Campos-Ordonez (University of Waterloo) and Enya Kuo (Yale) begin their PhD training

  • CSI lab grant with Jennifer Richeson funded by the Russell Sage Foundation

  • Graduate student Eunice Eun and researcher LaStarr Hollie join the CSI lab

  • Jun Won Park is invited to the Tobin Project’s annual Inequality Workshop

  • Ajua Duker and Jun Won Park win Dean’s Emerging Scholars Award

  • Cydney Dupree writes oped on racism in science

  • CSI lab members Torrez, Park, and Kraus write an oped on class bias in hiring

  • CSI lab members Eun and Kraus write an oped on Anti-Asian racism during COVID-19

  • Michael Kraus is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor

  • Kraus receives the Yale Graduate Mentor Award in the Social Sciences

  • Kraus receives a courtesy appointment at the Yale Department of Psychology

  • Kraus becomes a fellow of SPSP and APS

2019

  • CSI lab alum Quinton Delgadillo starts PhD program at Columbia University

  • Leilah Harouni becomes CSI lab manager

  • Psychology PhD students Sa-kiera Hudson, Natalie Daumeyer, and Ajua Duker join the CSI lab

  • Jun Won Park and Julian Rucker become Graduate Policy Fellows at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies

  • Jun Won Park is awarded a SPSP diversity travel award

2018

  • Psychology PhD students Julian Rucker and Xanni Brown join the CSI lab

  • Brittany Torrez receives an NSF graduate research fellowship

  • Brittany Torrez joins the CSI lab

  • Cydney Dupree discusses her competence downshift research on Freakonomics Radio Live

  • Michael Kraus receives a Sage Young Scholars Award from SPSP

2017

  • Jacinth Tan joins the faculty at Singapore Management University

  • CSI lab research on the misperception of racial economic inequality is covered by the NY Times

  • CSI lab creates the first summer internship program in organizational behavior

  • Cydney Dupree joins the organizations and management faculty at Yale

  • Michael Kraus wins an Emerging Leadership Award for research on socioeconomic status from APA

  • Michael Kraus writes an OpEd about misperceptions of racial economic inequality for the Hartford Courant

2016

  • Jun Won Park joins the CSI lab

  • Michael Kraus becomes a fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology

2015

  • CSI lab awarded small-scale research grant from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

  • CSI lab research on perceptions of class mobility appears in the NY Times

  • CSI lab moves to Yale

  • Jacinth Tan joins UC San Francisco as a postdoctoral scholar within the psychology and medicine program

  • Jacinth Tan completes her dissertation “The influence of subjective and objective SES on subjective well-being”

  • Erika Salomon completes her dissertation “Concept associations as the basis of social priming”

  • Bennett Callaghan joins the psychology department at Yale

  • Michael Kraus joins the organizations and management faculty at Yale