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Robert Sellers
Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Charles D Moody Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Education, School of Education
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Personality Psychology (University of Michigan)
About
Dr. Robert Sellers is the Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion, Chief Diversity Officer, and the Charles D. Moody Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Education. As Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer, Dr. Sellers works with the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs on matters related to diversity at the university as well as a broad range of academic issues including the budget, faculty tenure and promotions, and student enrollment. He oversees operations of three central administrative units.
Current Work
Dr. Sellers’ primary research activities have focused on the role of race in the psychological lives of African Americans. He and his students have developed a conceptual and empirical model of African American racial identity. The model has been used by a number of researchers in the field to understand the heterogeneity in the significance and meaning that African Americans place on race in defining themselves. Dr. Sellers and his students have also investigated the processes by which African American parents transmit messages about race to their children.
Finally, his research has examined the ways in which African Americans suffer from and often cope with experiences of racial discrimination. Over the years, he and his graduate students have published extensively on the topic. In addition to his research on the role of race in the lives of African Americans, Dr. Sellers has frequently published research examining the life experiences of student-athletes.