Valerie Purdie Greenaway | |
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Born | Valerie Joyce Purdie |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Valerie Purdie-Vaughns |
Alma mater |
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Spouse | Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social Psychology |
Institutions | Columbia University |
Thesis | Identity Contingency Threat: The Impact of Circumstantial Cues on African-Americans’ trust in diversity settings (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
Website | psychology |
Valerie Purdie Greenaway, who has also published under the surnames Purdie-Vaughns and Purdie,[1] is an American social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Columbia University.[2] Her research interests include diversity, stereotypes and intergroup relations.[3] She is one of the first African Americans to receive tenure in the academic sciences at Columbia University, and is credited with coining the term "intersectional invisibility".[4]