newsletter: november 2024
happy november! meet this month's guest editor, Jada Copeland-Hayes 🍂
hi, it’s minjae!
🌰🍁🍵 november is here 🍠🍂🕯
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i’m very excited to introduce this month’s guest editor, Jada Copeland-Hayes!
Jada Copeland-Hayes, M.S. 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
about me: I am originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia and went to college at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. I am currently a Doctoral Candidate in Social Psychology at Tufts University working alongside Dr. Jessica Remedios in the Social Identity and Stigma Lab. My goal is to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship and pursue a tenure-track position. I am excited about graduation and the trip I am planning to celebrate myself. So far, I am thinking of a cruise in Spain or Greece as I love the cruise I just went on mid-October. Here are some of the pictures I took at the various ports in Canada. When I am not thinking about school and research, I love to knit, bake, and do puzzles and Lego sets.
You can find me on Twitter (@_JadaCopeland) and LinkedIn
📺watching👀: I am currently rewatching all of Wizards of Waverly Place to prepare myself for the new episodes of Wizards of Waverly Place. I am also thinking about rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender (I have watched this show fully through over 10 times; it’s an annual thing). My favorite is when they finally meet Toph and go on their adventures.
📚reading🤓: I don’t always get the chance to read for fun, so when I went on my week-long cruise this month, I started reading my books again. I am reading a queer mystery novel set in the 1920s during prohibition. It is titled “Last Call at the Nightingale: A Mystery” and written by Katharine Schellman. There’s nothing like reading a good mystery novel during spooky szn with a nice cup or tea and a cozy blanket.
🎵listening🎶: I have been listening to Jaguar II by Victoria Monét. Victoria never fails to give us beautiful Black art🖤
📝some papers that i’m reading this month📝:
Salas-Hernández, L., DeVylder, J. E., Cooper, H. L., Duarte, C. D., Sewell, A. A., Walker, E. R., & Haardörfer, R. (2022). Latent class profiles of police violence exposure in 4 US cities and their associations with anticipation of police violence and mental health outcomes. Journal of Urban Health, 99(4), 655-668.
THIS MONTH’S ROUND-UP 🤩
💎 awesome work by marginalia and affiliated scientists 💎
Liera, R., & Hernandez, T. E. (2021). Color-evasive racism in the final stage of faculty searches: Examining search committee hiring practices that jeopardize racial equity policy The Review of Higher Education, 45(2), 181-209.
This case study examined how color-evasive racism operated through search committee members’ practices in ways that undermined university policy created to centralize racial equity in faculty hiring. Findings show that abstract liberalism, racialized decoupling, and racialized agency impeded the realization of an equitable search process. Faculty engaged in these color-evasive practices through selectively applying hiring criteria, undermining racial equity work, compartmentalizing racial equity work, and discrediting committee members trained in equity-mindedness. The findings illustrate how power imbalances on search committees may lead to decoupling policies, processes, and outcomes that reproduce racial inequity in faculty hiring, particularly in the final stage.
Bravestone, L., Hammond, M. D., Muise, A., & Cross, E. J. (2024). “It Wasn’t Meant for Gays”: Lesbian Women’s and Gay Men’s Reactions to the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Sex Roles, 1-14.
Researchers can unintentionally reinforce societal prejudice against minoritized populations through the false assumption that psychological measurements are generalizable across identities. Recently, researchers have posited that gender and sexually diverse (GSD) people could feel excluded or confused by the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) due to its overtly heteronormative statements like “A man is incomplete without the love of a woman.” Yet, the ASI is used for indexing the endorsement of sexism in GSD samples and across diverse populations. An ideal test of these experiences is to directly consult GSD participants for their reactions. In the current study, we report a reflexive thematic analysis of lesbian women and gay men’s (N = 744) feedback immediately after completing the ASI. Four themes characterized participants’ reactions to the ASI: Exclusion: Heteronormative items erase diverse genders and sexualities, Confusion: Inability to meaningfully respond due to heteronormativity, Hope: Exclusion understood as a necessary sacrifice toward progress, and Distress: Exclusion inflicts distress by reflecting societal prejudice. The themes captured the experience that many participants found heteronormative assumptions salient in the ASI and had varied reactions to the heteronormativity. Our results extend prior research that questions the generalizability of results drawn from the ASI, especially studies including GSD participants. We discuss the implications of the continued use of the ASI and encourage researchers to critically evaluate underlying theories and assumptions to ensure participants can engage with measures as intended.
👓 OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU 🚀
Register for the Critical Perspectives in Psychology Preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2025 Convention!
Boston College Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience’s Pre-Doctoral Mentorship Program provides one-on-one mentorship for applicants to psychology & neuroscience doctoral programs. Sign-up here (deadline 11/15/24)
🌱 JOB-MARKET RESOURCES 🌱
no matter where you’re at right now -- offer in hand, fingers-still-crossed, looking at post-docs, tenure track jobs, or exploring options outside academia -- we support you!
Social psychology professors at NYU held an academic job market panel – see video here
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Psychology with a starting date in August 2025, with a research focus in Cognitive or Behavioral Neuroscience. Applications to be reviewed on or after 11/18/2024
UT Dallas’s NIH Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program is hiring an Assistant Professor in cancer research, brain sciences, or bioengineering - due 12/1/2024
Northwestern’s NIH FIRST program is hiring 5 Assistant Professors with expertise in any of the following research areas: Cancer, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, and Brain, Mind, and Behavior – due 12/1/2024
Harvard Psychology is accepting applications for Harvard College Fellows (teaching focused postdoctoral positions that consist of 75% teaching, 25% research) – due 12/15/2024
and, of course, feel free to email us with questions, ideas, etc to add to this list!
in support & science,
📚 MARGINALIA SCIENCE 📚
eliana hadjiandreou
ivy gilbert
jordan wylie
minjae kim