Professional
Experience
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Education
Ph.D.
in Social Sciences, University of Lausanne,
1997
Thesis: Social identity and
dimensional relevance in intergroup comparisons
Advisor: Prof. Jean-Claude Deschamps
European
Master in Social Psychology,
Master’s
Thesis in Social and Educational Sciences,
Thesis: Social status, group
membership, and intra-group differentiation
Advisor: Prof. Jean-Claude Deschamps
B.A.
in Social and Educational Sciences,
Academic Positions
Associate
Professor, Department of Psychology,
San Diego State University, 2008 - present
Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology,
Lecturer,
Department of Psychology, Yale University, 2001 - 2002
Course: Social Psychology
Visiting
Fellow, Department of Psychology,
Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Mahzarin R. Banaji
Post-Doctoral
Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of California - Santa Barbara, 1997 -
1999
Faculty Sponsor: Prof. Diane M.
Mackie
Research
Associate, Faculty of Psychology and
Educational Sciences, University of Geneva,
1997
Research Project: Social
Representations of Human Rights
Advisor: Prof. Willem Doise
Lecturer,
Institute of Social and Educational Sciences,
Course: Research Methods in Social
Psychology
Research
Associate, Institute of Social
and Preventive Medicine,
Research Project: Evaluation of
Programs to Reduce Problems Related to the Use of Illegal Drugs
Advisors: M.D. Françoise
Dubois-Arber & M.D. Jean-Pierre Gervasoni
Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, 1994 - 1995
Course: Introduction to Social
Psychology
Research
Associate, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1992 - 1994
Research Project: Categorization and
Prototypicality in Intergroup Relations
Principal Investigator: Prof. Jean-Claude
Deschamps
Research
Associate, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, 1991 - 1992
Research Project: Lay Explanations
of HIV/AIDS
Principal Investigator: Prof.
Jean-Claude Deschamps
Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Institute of Social and Educational Sciences, University of
Lausanne, 1990 - 1996
Courses and Seminars: Introduction
to Social Psychology, Research Methods in Social Psychology,
Intergroup Relations, Social
Cognition, Theory and Methods of Psychosocial Interventions, Psychosocial
Perspectives on Integration and
Deviance
Co-Organization: Graduate Seminar on
Current Work in Social Psychology
Funded Grants
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NIMH Minority Research Infrastructure Support
Program.
Subproject on the M-RISP at San Diego State University: Implicit Beliefs about Ethnicity and
American Identity: Investigating their Effects on the Mental Health of Ethnic
Minorities, 2007-2011 |
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Travel Award - SDSU’s Minority Research
Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP), 2007 |
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Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (SDSU). Mini-Grant: Advances
in the Study of Implicit Social Identities, 2005 |
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Faculty Grant-In-Aid for Research (SDSU). Research Project: The
Implicit Connections between National and Ethnic Identities, 2004-2005 |
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Mini-Grant - SDSU’s Minority Research
Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP), Research Project: Implicit Associations between
American and Ethnic Identities, 2004-2005 |
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Travel Award - SDSU’s Minority Research
Infrastructure Support Program (M-RISP), 2004 |
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Professorship Grant, Research Project: Social
Identity and Hostility between Groups, Swiss National Science Foundation,
2002 – 2006 (Awarded, but declined
because of my acceptance of the position at SDSU) |
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Consultant, Research Project: American Identity under
Siege: Re-Categorization at Ground Zero, National Science Foundation Small
Grant for Exploratory Research, 2001 – 2002 |
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Fellowship for Advanced Researcher, Research Project: Implicit
Stereotyping and Prejudice, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2001 –
2002 [6-month extension] |
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Fellowship for Advanced Researcher, Research Project: Implicit
Stereotyping and Prejudice, Swiss National Science Foundation, 1999 –
2001 |
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Fellowship
for Prospective Researcher, Research
Project: Asymmetries in Judgments of Group Variability, Swiss National
Science Foundation, 1998 – 1999 [6-month extension] |
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Fellowship
for Prospective Researcher, Research Project:
Asymmetries in Judgments of Group Variability, Swiss National Science
Foundation, 1997 – 1998 |
Awards and
Honors
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Exemplary Academic Adviser Award, |
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Faculty Honoree nominated by Karla Blanco, recipient
of the Vice Presidential Student Service Award, “Quest for the
Best,” |
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Honorable Mention for a paper submitted to the 2005-2006 Gordon
Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, Society for the Psychological Study of
Social Issues, 2006 |
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Outstanding Faculty
Award selected by Priscila Diaz,
recipient of the Outstanding Student Award, Department of Psychology,
San Diego State University, 2005 |
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Faculty Honoree nominated by Jose A. Cruz
Torres, recipient of the Vice Presidential Student Service Award,
“Quest for the Best,” |
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Supervisor of Yukiko Yokoyama, recipient of the 2004
Rebecca Bryson Kissinger Thesis Award [given to the master’s
student in the Department of Psychology
whose thesis has been selected as the best from among those submitted during
that academic year], San Diego State University,
2004 |
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Award for Academic Excellence, Faculty of Social and
Political Sciences, University of |