Biography
Colin Wayne Leach (B.A. 1989, M.A. 1991, Boston University; Ph.D. 1995, University of Michigan) is a social and personality psychologist who studies status and morality in identity, emotion, and motivation. He is also interested in protest & resistance; Prejudice, stereotypes, ...isms; Meta-theory, methods, and statistics; and transdisciplinary approaches.
At Columbia University, he is professor of Psychology & Africana Studies at Barnard College; adjunct senior research scientist, Department of Psychology, School of Arts & Sciences; graduate faculty in Psychology in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; faculty research fellow at the Institute for Research in African American Studies; member of the Data Science Institute; and affiliate member of the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. His previous faculty appointments include University of Connecticut, University of Sussex (England), and University of California-Santa Cruz.
Leach is an elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. He is a 2017 recipient of the Kurt Lewin medal for scientific contribution from the European Association of Social Psychology and has held (U.C. Berkeley) Chancellors, Ford Foundation, and Wallenberg Foundation research fellowships. Leach has spoken in 17 countries and has been a visiting professor on four continents.
In addition to authoring over 100 journal articles and book chapters, Prof. Leach has co-edited the volumes "Psychology as Politics" (Political Psychology, 2001), "Immigrant Life in the U.S." (Routledge, 2003), "The Social Life of Emotions" (Cambridge, 2004), and "Societal Change" (Journal of Social & Political Psychology, 2013). He is former Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
