Prospective PhD Students
Michael does not anticipate recruiting graduate students to matriculate at Northwestern University in Fall 2025, but he is open to co-advising relationships with mentors at Northwestern with agreement from other faculty.
Most years, Michael reviews applications for our graduate program in social psychology and is open to be a research mentor for new students. Please keep in mind that, although it is totally fine to contact Michael about graduate applications, this contact is not a necessary or sufficient step for being admitted into the PhD program.
Successful applications to work as part of the CSI lab are usually based on a loose understanding of fit between the research interests of the prospective PhD student and the lab’s ongoing research. To write a successful application, Michael recommends that students clearly articulate the research ideas they are passionate about in the application. While it can be useful to take a look at the lab’s values and mission (https://www.csinequality.com/values) as well as ongoing projects (https://www.csinequality.com/projects), successful applications need not mention these materials in the application.
Northwestern Psychology has strong norms that value student voice, diversity, and belonging. We hope you will consider NU and the CSI lab for your PhD journey!
Canady Diversity Science Fellowship
The CSI lab does not anticipate any postdoctoral job openings for the 2024-2025 academic year. However, Northwestern Psychology has the Canady Diversity Science Fellowship that may have openings for the 2025-2026 year:
Summer Interns
Our summer internship program is currently in transition. We expect to resume in the summer of 2025
Applications for the internship open in early January and we admit between 3-8 interns each year for the program which will be hosted at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.
The application website (usually due in mid March 2025):