Dr. Victoria C. Plaut

Dr. Plaut got her BA in Psychology from Harvard University in 1996, an M.Sc. in Social Psychology at the London School of Economics in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Psychology at Stanford University in 2003. She was a professor at Holy Cross, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, for two years before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia in 2005. At UGA Dr. Plaut is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, is co-chair of Center RED’s Intergroup Relations Working Group, and is affiliated with the Institute for Behavioral Research. She also serves as Vice-Chair of Board of Trustees at the Center for Advancement and Study of International Education in Atlanta. Having lived in New York, Paris, Atlanta, Boston, London, San Francisco, and now Athens, and having grown up in a bicultural family (Colombian-American), Dr. Plaut is fascinated by cultural and identity group differences and relations. Her research aims to uncover ways to foster successful and inclusive diverse environments.

Dr. Plaut’s faculty page

 

CDIRL Undergraduates
Chelsea MacCaughelty
Niki Schley
Jessica Fowler
Dakia McCray
Ashley Mosier
Haley Wood
Amber Tacke
Liz Cooper
Patrick Thompson (UGA BA, BS)

Former research assistants
Bina Ali (UGA BA, 06, now research assistant at GA Tech)
Kati Cooper (UGA BA, now research project coordinator at Emory)
Mark Campbell (Holy Cross BA 04, now PhD student in Audiology at Northeastern)
Lauren Schnare (Holy Cross BA 04, now PhD student in Clinical Psychology at UGA)
Danielle Carvalho (Holy Cross BA, now MA student at Tufts in child development)

Former masters and honors students
Kimberly Rios Morrison (Stanford BA, now PhD student in Organizational Behavior at Stanford)
Norma Ochoa-Pescador (Stanford BA & MA, now in marketing at NextTag)
Nicole Peterson (Stanford BA & MA, now UCLA Law)
Lexi Suppes (Stanford BA & MA, now PhD student at Columbia University)
Christine Osborne (Holy Cross BA, now medical student at Rochester)
Sarita Patil (Stanford BA, now medical student at Duke)
Adrian Aguilera (Stanford BA, now PhD student in Clinical Psychology at UCLA)
Sara Adibisedeh (Stanford BA, now UC Berkeley Law graduate)