2019-2020 Graduate Fellow
Diane-Jo Bart-Plange is a fourth year PhD student in social psychology. Her research focuses on the maintenance and reproduction of racism on the individual, institutional, and structural levels of society. She currently studies how the perceived non-prototypicality of Black women of their race and gender influence how others attend to race-stereotypic features when categorizing and evaluating them. In her research, she finds that colorism is most pronounced for Black women, particularly when gender is salient. With her PVI fellowship, she is examining gendered colorism in pain perception and management.