Associate Professor of Organizational Studies and Associate Professor of Psychology (by courtesy)
About
Tiffany N. Brannon is a social psychologist who leverages theories associated with cultural psychology to examine persistent and pressing social issues related to identity and inclusion. Specifically, her research centers socio-cultural identities in negatively stereotyped groups such as Latino/a/x and African Americans. She investigates the potential for these identities to serve as psychological resources— strengths that can facilitate a variety of individual, intergroup, institutional and even societal benefits. Harnessing experimental, survey, and big data methods her research examines outcomes linked to inequalities including academic achievement, health and well-being, intergroup attitudes, and policy support. She is the senior author of the book Selves as Solutions to Social Inequalities through Cambridge University Press; her research has been published in top academic journals including Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Psychological Science, American Psychologists, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social Issues and Policy Review. She is the recipient of national and international honors including the Daniel M. Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize from the Society from Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) and the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).
She joined the University of Michigan (UM) in 2025 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. She received her MA and PhD in Social Psychology from Stanford University; and she completed postdoctoral training as a fellow and visiting assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
