Awardee | Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (Ph.D. '14)
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington (Ph.D. in Psychology '14) is the recipient of the Harvard University Richard J. Herrnstein Prize (2014-2015) for her dissertation, "Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains." This work also received an Honorable Mention from the International Society for Political Psychology's Best Dissertation Award.
Sheehy-Skeffington is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Psychology, Brunel University, London. In January 2016, she moves to the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she will be an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology.
A social psychologist, she is interested in the mechanisms underlying our human sensitivity to power, status, and group membership: their origins, interactions, and manifestation in societal context. Read more about Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington's work at her website: www.jennifersheehyskeffington.com ►
