NiCole T. Buchanan, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University whose research focuses on harassment and its impact on organizational climate, employee well-being, and professional development. Specifically, she examines the interplay of race, gender and victimization and how social identity dimensions impact the nature of harassment (e.g., racialized sexual harassment; Buchanan & Ormerod, 2002, Buchanan et al., 2018), how it is perceived by targets and bystanders, its impact on psychological, occupational, and academic outcomes, and organizational best practices. Dr. Buchanan also studies barriers to equity and inclusion in higher education. Namely, how evaluations of faculty research reflect both discipline-based and identity-based biases that result in the formal and informal epistemic exclusion of marginalized scholars and the scholarship they produce (see Buchanan & Settles, 2019; Settles, Buchanan, & Dotson, 2019; Settles, Jones, Buchanan & Dotson, 2020).

Dr. Buchanan is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, four divisions of the American Psychological Association (Society of Clinical Psychology, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and Society for the Psychology of Women), and has received national and international awards for her research, teaching, and professional service. She is on the Advisory Committee for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and served on the Research and Content Expert Workgroup for the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Congress in conjunction with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to examine the prevalence and cost of sexual harassment in the U.S. workplace. She has been highlighted in hundreds of media outlets, is a featured speaker including TEDx and National Public Radio (NPR), and provides bias and diversity-related training and consultation for medical professionals, academic and practicing psychologists, human resource managers, and campus, city, and state police departments around the country.