Feeling Black Lives Matter: The Psycho-Social Dynamics of Sentiment

Colin Wayne Leach (B.A. 1989, M.A. 1991, Boston University; Ph.D. 1995, University of Michigan) is a social and personality psychologist who studies status and morality in identity, emotion, and motivation. He is also interested in protest & resistance; Prejudice, stereotypes, …isms; Meta-theory, methods, and statistics; and transdisciplinary approaches. In addition to authoring over 100 articles and chapters, Prof. Leach has co-edited the volumes Psychology as Politics (Political Psychology, 2001), Immigrant Life in the U.S. (Routledge, 2003), The Social Life of Emotions (Cambridge, 2004), and Societal Change (Journal of Social & Political Psychology, 2013).

At Columbia University, he is Professor of Psychology & Africana Studies at Barnard College; Adjunct Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology, School of Arts & Sciences; Graduate Faculty in Psychology, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in African American Studies; Member of the Data Science Institute; and Affiliate Member of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

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