Featured Member

Linda Tropp

SPSSI member Linda R. Tropp, who is featured in the May 2008 O! Magazine, where she is described as "one of five top peace psychologists," offers some key advice on diffusing conflict in the article "Let's Not Fight."

Linda is Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Concentration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Her research concerns responses to intergroup contact among minority and majority status groups, interpretations of intergroup relationships, identification with social groups, and responses to prejudice and disadvantage.  Tropp is a recipient of the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for her research on intergroup contact, as well as the McKeachie Early Career Award for the teaching of psychology.  She has served on SPSSI’s Governing Council (2004-2007), as well as on its Membership Committee (2002-2008), the Allport Prize Review Committee (2003-2005), and the Junior Scholars Task Force (2002-2004). She has worked on several state and national initiatives to improve race relations in schools, and she has been involved in a number of efforts to integrate contributions from researchers and practitioners in the study of intergroup relations. To this end, she co-edited the September 2006 issue of the Journal of Social Issues concerning the integration of research and practice on intergroup relations, and she has co-organized a joint SPSSI-EAESP conference on basic and applied approaches to intergroup contact (August 2008).

Contact Linda Tropp

Tropp web page:
http://euryale.sbs.umass.edu/PsychWeb/People/MiniWebPages/tropp.html

Concentration web page:
http://www.umass.edu/peacepsychology/

 
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