Dr. Danielle Dickens

Dr. Danielle Dickens is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Spelman College. As a Black feminist social psychologist, Dr. Dickens’ research focuses on the identity development and identity formation of Black women and how they navigate the world. She uses an intersectionality approach to examine how members of groups underrepresented in STEM experience discrimination, the utilization of identity shifting as a coping strategy, and the benefits and costs of identity shifting on Black women’s physical and mental health. Dr. Dickens has received funding from NSF to develop interventions that provide research and grant writing training to faculty at underserved institutions in the sciences and social sciences. She is also the recipient of both the 2019 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award and the 2020 Foremothers’ Mentorship Early Career Award from Division 35 of the American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychology of Women).