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2025 Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award Winner:
Dr. Simon Howard is the Director of the Psychology of Racism, Identity, Diversity, and Equity (PRIDE) lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami. He is a first-generation college graduate who completed his undergraduate degree at San Jose State University. Dr. Howard went on to earn his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Tufts University. His research aims to understand and address contemporary forms of racism. To this end he has conducted research on the interpersonal and contextual influences on racially biased perception, judgment, behavior, and mental health of both historically advantaged (e.g., White people) and disadvantaged group members (e.g., Black people).His recent work can be organized in three broad themes: 1) The consequences of exposure to vicarious racism for racially stigmatized groups; 2) The role of religion in maintaining racial hierarchy; 3) the influence of race on perception, judgment, and behavior.
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