2025

  • The Summer Psychology Internship program welcomed interns at Northwestern

  • Kylie Davis joined the CSI lab at Northwestern through the PhD program in Psychology

  • Megan Burns and Amaya Mitchell successfully defended their Masters Theses as part of the psychology doctoral program

  • Chyei Vinluan and Daniel Sanji both presented talks at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association on Asian American stereotypes

  • Quincy Lherisson and Amaya Mitchell joined the CSI lab as affiliated students through the psychology PhD program

  • Lab alum Cydney Dupree gave a Presidential Plenary talk at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention

  • Michael Kraus, lab alum Julian Rucker, and teaching assistants Daniel, Amaya, and Iseul participated in the Summer Institute for Social and Personality Psychology

  • Michael won the 2025 SESP Diversity Science Award for sustained contributions to diversity science in psychology

  • Michael wrote an oped about government attacks on social science and diversity for the Chicago Tribune

  • Michael’s research talk on the narrative of racial progress is covered by the Daily Northwestern

  • Michael’s research is covered by the Institute of Policy Research

  • Michael began his term as co-editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

2024

  • The Summer Psychology Internship program announced its return at Northwestern in the summer of 2025

  • CSI lab alum Julian Rucker received the SPSP Sage Emerging Scholar Award

  • The CSI lab had its first lab meeting of 2024 at Northwestern

  • Research on organizational racial progress, led by Brittany Torrez and LaStarr Hollie, was featured in an article by the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern

  • Purdue psychologist Franki Kung visited the CSI lab during his sabbatical

  • Franki received the SPSP Sage Career Trajectory Award

  • Aline da Silva Frost joined the CSI lab as a postdoctoral fellow through Northwestern’s NURTURE program

  • Iseul Cha-Ju joined the CSI lab at Northwestern as an affiliated student through the PhD program in Psychology

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

  • Daniel received an NSF graduate research fellowship

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

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

  • Construction on the new CSI lab space in Swift Hall started and finished

  • The CSI lab moved to Northwestern University

  • Michael Kraus accepted 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

  • Michael began an associate editor position at Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

2023

  • Chyei Vinluan joined the CSI lab as a postdoctoral fellow

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022

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

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

  • Brittany won the Heritage Dissertation Award at SPSP

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

  • Megan Burns joined 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 accepted a job as a Data Analyst on the Diversity Team at Genentech

  • LaStarr Hollie received a REAL fellowship award from UMASS

  • Cydney Dupree was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor

  • Cydney accepted a tenured position at University College London

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

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

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

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

2021

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

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

  • Cydney Dupree won the Sage Early Career Trajectory Award

  • Brittany Torrez won the Jenessa Shapiro Graduate Research Award

  • Jun Won Park began their postdoctoral position at Princeton University

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

  • Researchers Dana Harris and Anita Ding joined the CSI lab

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

  • Brittany Torrez won the Dean’s Emerging Scholars Award

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

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

2020

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

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

  • Bennett Callaghan successfully defended 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) began their PhD training

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

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

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

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

  • Cydney Dupree wrote an oped on racism in science

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

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

  • Michael Kraus was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor

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

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

  • Kraus became a fellow of SPSP and APS

2019

  • CSI lab alum Quinton Delgadillo started a PhD program at Columbia University

  • Leilah Harouni became CSI lab manager

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

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

  • Jun Won Park was awarded a SPSP diversity travel award

2018

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

  • Brittany Torrez received an NSF graduate research fellowship

  • Brittany Torrez joined the CSI lab

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

  • Michael Kraus received a Sage Young Scholars Award from SPSP

2017

  • Jacinth Tan joined the faculty at Singapore Management University

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

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

  • Cydney Dupree joined the organizations and management faculty at Yale

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

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

2016

  • Jun Won Park joined the CSI lab

  • Michael Kraus became 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 appeared in the NY Times

  • CSI lab moved to Yale

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

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

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

  • Bennett Callaghan joined the psychology department at Yale

  • Michael Kraus joined the organizations and management faculty at Yale