Phillip Atiba Goff

Phillip Atiba Goff
Goff in 2020
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University AB 1999
Stanford University MA 2001
PhD 2005[1]
Known forWork on race and policing in the United States
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University
UCLA
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University
ThesisThe space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005)
Doctoral advisorClaude Steele

Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States.[2] He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.

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  2. ^ "First Named Professorship Established At John Jay With Funding From Ford Foundation And Atlantic Philanthropies". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. March 22, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.