Faculty Member, Psychology
Professor of Psychology
About
Colin Wayne Leach studied at Boston University (B.A., 1989; M.A. 1991) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1995) and has been on the faculty of the University of California-Santa Cruz (USA) and the University of Sussex (UK). He is a former Chancellor’s and Ford fellow and has been a visiting scholar in Australia, Italy, Germany, and Holland.
Most of Colin’s research is concerned with status and morality in self-evaluation, emotion, and social relations. He has published nearly sixty articles and chapters on these topics and has presented his work in over a dozen countries. Colin also co-edited Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2003) and The Social Life of Emotions (Cambridge, 2004). His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council, the European Science Foundation, and the (Dutch) Organization for Scientific Research. Colin is currently Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and consulting editor for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, among other journals.
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