Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States.[2] He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.
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.jpg) Goff in 2020 | |
| Born | 1977 (age 46–47) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005[1] |
| Known for | Work on race and policing in the United States |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social psychology |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University UCLA John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University |
| Thesis | The space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
Early life
editGoff grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies.[1] He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005.[3][1]
Career
editGoff has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government[4] and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005.[1]
Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity,[3][5] which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States.[6] CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database.[7] The analytic framework Goff developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally.[8] In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay.[9][10] In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.
Goff was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 [10] and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.[11]
Research
editIn 2008, Goff, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender.[12][clarification needed]
He has published extensively in journals.[1]
Personal life
editIn 1999, Goff co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective.[13] During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD Curriculum Vita" (PDF). US House of Representatives. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "First Named Professorship Established At John Jay With Funding From Ford Foundation And Atlantic Philanthropies". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. March 22, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ a b "Faculty Page". UCLA Psychology Department. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Meagher, Tom (May 18, 2016). "The lack of information about policing is criminal". Newsweek. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ "History". Center for Policing Equity. Los Angeles. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ Woo, Marcus (January 21, 2015). "How Science Is Helping America Tackle Police Racism". Wired. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Goff, Phillip Atiba (August 26, 2014). "America's Lack of a Police Behavior Database Is a Disgrace. That's Why I'm Leading a Team to Build One". The New Republic. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ Jervis, Rick (October 12, 2016). "Report on racial disparities among Austin Police could be model for USA". USA Today. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ "Taking On Racial Profiling With Data". NPR. December 14, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
- ^ a b Roberts, Sam (March 22, 2016). "U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties Will Move to John Jay College". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ "President's Task Force Hearing on Community Policing". C-SPAN. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
- ^ Onwuachi-Willig, Angela (June 18, 2018). "What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement". Yale Law Journal Forum. 128: 115. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
- ^ Hix, Lisa (June 22, 2006). "Deep Dickollective". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
- ^ Zarley, B. David (February 20, 2013). "Tim'm West and the masculine mystique". Chicago Reader. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
External links
edit- Biography at Center for Policing Equity
- Goff's page on Social Psychology Network
- TED talk in 2019
- Phillip Atiba Goff on Twitter
- Appearances on C-SPAN