2011 Early Career Award Winner

Dr. Julie Spencer-Rodgers
University of California--Berkeley

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Spencer-Rodgers received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Quebec, Canada, she speaks English, French, and Spanish, and has conducted research in many countries including China, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. She has been an Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) and a Statistician at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara and an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Her research interests lie in the areas of intercultural relations, culture and the self, and social stigma and its mental/physical health consequences. In her current research, she is examining variables (e.g., group affirmation, dialectical thinking) that moderate the relationship between perceptions of discrimination and mental and physical health (e.g., neuroendocrinological and cardiovascular responses). She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics, cultural psychology, social psychology, and research methods.