2018 Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award Winner

Phia S. Salter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. in Psychology with a concentration in Ethnic Studies from Davidson College (2005) and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology with a Graduate Certificate in African Studies from the University of Kansas (2010). Dr. Salter utilizes cultural-psychological and critical race perspectives to inform her work on collective memory, social identity, and systemic racism. Her research lab, the Culture in Mind Research Collaboratory, is a community of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students who utilize psychological science to conduct innovative research with the goal of alleviating social inequalities and injustice. Dr. Salter is dedicated to social justice initiatives for teaching and learning. In the classroom, her primary goal is to facilitate dialogue and action that empowers students to identify, challenge, and dismantle various forms of oppression and injustice.