Lab Members

Jasmine Banks

Jasmine Banks is a doctoral student in the Personality and Social Context program. She graduated from Florida International University in 2019 where she was a McNair Scholar and a javelin thrower. Broadly, her focus on poverty solutions, structural inequalities, understanding the experiences of marginalized and minorities, and student-athletes of color. Jasmine is interested in using a mixed methods approach to understanding these populations and phenomena.

Tangier “Tannie” Davis

Tangier Davis is a doctoral candidate in the Personality and Social Context program and an affiliate in the Gender and Feminist Psychology area. She is broadly interested in understanding the barriers that women of color face in different workplace contexts. Most frequently, she thinks about the experiences of women of color who work in academia, but more recently she has also begun to think about their experiences in the political arena. She is currently teaching the Psychology of Black Activism, a course that she created that explores the motivations and antecedents of political activism in marginalized communities.

Stephanie Miller-Tejada

Broadly, my research interests lie within issues of race, power, and oppression. I’m currently focusing on how ethnic and racial identity (ERI) development is impacted by the racial composition of one’s community, as well as how positive ERI development empowers youth of color to resist systems of oppression.

Eden Harrison

Eden Harrison is a first-year graduate student in the Gender Feminist and Personality/Social Context psychology areas. Her current research interests broadly include intersectional methodologies, Black feminist thought, and resilience. Eden hopes to develop a mixed-methods and community-based approach to analyzing the multidimensionality of social identities.

Kathrina “Kathy” Robotham

Kathrina “Kathy” Robotham is a doctoral student in the Personality and Social Context area. She is broadly interested in diversity and mistreatment in the workplace. The two primary goals of her research are to 1) understand the experiences, perceptions, and consequences of workplace mistreatment for marginalized groups, specifically, women and people of color and 2) discover individual and organizational factors that might protect marginalized groups from workplace mistreatment and foster diversity and inclusion.

Dr. Sheila Brassel is a former graduate student in Personality & Social Contexts Psychology, a Gender and Feminist Psychology graduate student affiliate, and pursuing a graduate certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She is now a Senior Associate at Catalyst, Inc where she contributes expertise in intersectionality, sexual harassment, inclusion, and workplace experiences related to gender, race, and sexual orientation to Catalyst’s diverse research programs.

Her research uses intersectionality and social identity theories, and employs a variety of methodologies – including qualitative, quantitative, survey, and experimental methods – to examine the expression and experience of gender-based mistreatment (e.g., sexual harassment, prejudice), with particular focus on the intersections of gender with sexuality and race.

Dr. Martinque “Marti” Jones is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas in Counseling Psychology and information about here lab can be found here.

She received her BA in psychology from the University of Texas and her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Houston. Prior to joining the Michigan community, Dr. Jones conducted research and taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research applies an intersectional paradigm to the psychological study of Black women’s identities (i.e., race and gender), mental health, and counseling processes. One of her current projects, which was recently funded by the American Psychological Foundation, examines culturally-responsive therapy with Black college women.