About
NiCole T. Buchanan, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University (MSU) and faculty affiliate of MSU's Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research, Research Consortium on Gender-Based Violence, and the Center for Gender in Global Context. She received her doctorate in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Dr. Buchanan's research focuses on the interplay of race, gender, victimization and a unique form of harassment called racialized sexual harassment and how social identity dimensions, such as race, gender, sexual orientation and social class relate to well-being and professional development.Dr. Buchanan is a fellow of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Society for the Psychology of Women (Div. 35), Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Div. 45), and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Div. 9) and has been the recipient of several awards for her research, teaching, and service contributions to campus and the field, such as the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award, Michigan State University's 2007 Excellence in Diversity Award in the category of "Individual Emerging Progress" and 2015 in the category of "TEAMS-Excellence in Community" for Sustained Effort Toward Excellence in Diversity (SEED)-(5 years to 15 years). Dr. Buchanan was honored to receive both APA's Society for the Psychology of Women's 2015 Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award for the development of innovative ideas and learning activities to enhance the teaching of diversity and APA's Committee on Women in Psychology's 2015 Leadership Award as an Emerging Leader in the categories of research scholarship and service in psychology.
Current Work
Dr. Buchanan has several projects addressing harassment and disparities among students, employees, and university faculty, including surveys of harassment among ethnically diverse college students, enlisted personnel, and officers in the US military; analysis of organizational practices addressing harassment; interviews on mentoring, bias, and mistreatment with 118 faculty of color at research intensive universities; and studies of bystander perceptions of harassment directed toward ethnic minority women and employees believed to be gay, lesbian, or transgender.
Research Area Keyword(s)
discrimination and bias, intersectionality, sexual harassment, well-being, workplace victimization