newsletter: september 2024
happy September! meet this month's guest editor Kengthsagn Louis!
hi, it’s eliana!
💼✏️📓🎒Happy return to the academic year! 💼📓✏️🎒
Thank you to those who attended our job market workshop on August 20th - we hope you found it helpful! If you missed it or are looking for more, check out Faculty Job Search Series by EquiSciTrack!
Important announcement: Our second marginalia science x boston college symposium is taking place on December 9th- deadline to apply to be selected as one of the 3 speakers to give a short talk is Oct 25th at this link- speakers will be awarded a $250 honorarium and will also be provided with travel assistance.
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….without further ado, introducing this month’s guest editor, Kengthsagn Louis!
Kengthsagn Louis
Hello! It’s Kengthsagn (also go by Keng)! I hope everyone starting the new semester (or quarter) is excited for it!
My first semi-professional headshot as a faculty member 🥹🥹🥹🥹
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about me: I am from Haiti, the first Black independent republic in the world!! I’m currently an Assistant Professor at Boston College, where I’m part of both the Psychology & Neuroscience Department and the African and African Diaspora Studies program. My research broadly explores the relationships among the self, health, others, and culture, with a particular focus on examining these topics in the contexts of healthcare disparities, health behaviors, and policy support. This semester, I’m especially thrilled to kick off my lab community and dive into meaningful research with my colleagues. Keep an eye out for the work coming out of the SHIC (Self, Health, Identity, and Culture) Lab at Boston College 👀👀.
📺 watching 👀: I've been watching Supacell, a Black British sci-fi show, and all I can say is that this show needs a bijillion seasons! It's that good! I’m terrible at keeping spoilers to myself, so you’ve got to watch it for yourself.
📚reading 🤓 : I’ve been completely absorbed in The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. This novel has everything I like in an amazing book: non-linear storyline, emotionally resonant characters, and thoughtful social commentary. It’s the kind of book that stays with you long after you’ve turned the last page. Though it’s long, it’s absolutely worth the time. Plus, one of the characters is a PhD student—if that’s a bonus for you!
👂listening 🎧:
Hiss by Megan Thee Stallion
Euphoria by Kendrick Lamar
Manman m voye m peze kafe by Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet
some papers that I’m ~hoping~ to read this month::
A network approach to assessing the relationship between discrimination and daily emotion dynamics.
Faith M. Deckard, Andrew Messamore, Bridget J.Goosby, Jacob E. Cheadle
Social Psychology Quarterly
2023
Social group membership and biomarkers of health.
McMahon, Grace, Howard, Siobhán, Manunta, Efisio, Griffin, Siobhán, Bradshaw, Daragh, Nightingale, Alastair, & Muldoon, Orla T.
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
2024
THIS MONTH’S ROUND-UP 🤩
💎 awesome work by marginalia and affiliated scientists 💎
Louis, K., Crum, A. J., & Markus, H. R. (2023). Negative consequences of self-presentation on disclosure of health information: A catch-22 for Black patients? Social Science & Medicine, 316, 115141.
Most patients assume that it is adaptive to present oneself in a positive light when interacting with medical professionals. Here in two studies focused on Black patients we ask: might this desire to present oneself well inhibit the disclosure of health-relevant information when patients are concerned about negative and stereotypic evaluations by their health care providers? Specifically, we explore three important questions: First, whether self-presentational efforts (e.g., working hard to sound knowledgeable or “smart”) are negatively associated with disclosure of health information (e.g., not taking certain medications); Second, whether patient-provider racial congruence (e.g. Black patients interacting with a Black vs. a White doctor) moderates that relationship; and third, more broadly, what factors promote or inhibit disclosure of health information for Black patients in medical interactions. These questions were investigated using mixed methodology (survey, experimental, qualitative) studies on CloudResearch and Prolific. […]
👓 OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU 🚀
Minds Matter podcast (which features marginalia community members from time to time!)
Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics: presentation and publication opportunities
🌱 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!
** Faculty Job Search Series by EquiSciTrack! ** You will benefit from these series if you are preparing for the tenure-track job market and want to hear from new PIs and recent post-docs who were recently on the market. Fill out application & registere here
** For job market resources from interviews to negotiating offers, check here **
** Check last month’s newsletter for postings with deadlines in early Oct, in addition to ones below 👇 **
Kengthsagn Louis at Boston College is accepting PhD students this year & a post-doc, reach out if you are interested!
UW-Madison is hiring 2 social psychologists! -1 tenure-track position (deadline: 9/15/24) -1 tenured/open rank position (deadline: 10/8/24), more info here
UNC Chapell Hill is hiring neuroscience teaching faculty, more info here
Dartmouth is hiring a TT professor studying social interaction, more info here
UC Davis is hiring a TT in developmental psychology, more info here
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