2026-2029 JSI Editor

Elizabeth R. Cole is Professor of Psychology, Women's and Gender Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Personality Psychology and taught at Northeastern University before joining U-M in 2000. Her research has been published in journals in psychology and women’s studies, including American Psychologist, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and of course, JSI. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and has also served as president of SPSSI (2018-19). Liz has served as the associate dean for social sciences and the interim dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, and is currently the director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). Her scholarship applies feminist theory on intersectionality to social science research on race, gender, and social justice through a combination of theoretical and empirical work employing both qualitative and quantitative methods.