Councilmember 2024–2027

Dr. Özge Savas is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at College of the Holy Cross. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan, and MA in Developmental Psychology at Koç University, Turkey. Her research focuses on understanding how people develop in(ter)dependence and belonging within various social, cultural, and economic systems and across their lifetimes. In answering questions about when, where, and how “people” feel included or excluded and who belongs, she adopts a social justice lens, uses multiple methods, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and brings the macro (institutional), meso (symbolic), and micro (individual) levels of analyses together. Her research has significant social policy implications and applicability in addressing issues ranging from immigrant rights and humanitarian crises to the widening cultural/political divide and global gender inequality.