Phillip Atiba Goff | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Harvard University
AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005 [1] |
Known for | Work on race and policing in the United States |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social psychology |
Institutions |
Pennsylvania State University UCLA John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University |
Thesis | The space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. [2] He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.
Goff grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies. [1] He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005. [3] [1]
Goff has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government [4] and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005. [1]
Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity, [3] [5] which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States. [6] CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database. [7] The analytic framework Goff developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally. [8] In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay. [9] [10] In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.
Goff was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 [10] and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. [11]
In 2008, Goff, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender. [12][ clarification needed]
He has published extensively in journals. [1]
In 1999, Goff co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective. [13] During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP. [14]
Phillip Atiba Goff | |
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Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Harvard University
AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005 [1] |
Known for | Work on race and policing in the United States |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Social psychology |
Institutions |
Pennsylvania State University UCLA John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University |
Thesis | The space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005) |
Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. [2] He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.
Goff grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies. [1] He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005. [3] [1]
Goff has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government [4] and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005. [1]
Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity, [3] [5] which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States. [6] CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database. [7] The analytic framework Goff developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally. [8] In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay. [9] [10] In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.
Goff was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 [10] and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. [11]
In 2008, Goff, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender. [12][ clarification needed]
He has published extensively in journals. [1]
In 1999, Goff co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective. [13] During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP. [14]