Who We Are

The Diversity Research Group is located within the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University and works in conjunction with the Organizational Psychology program. The research group is led by Dr. Ann Marie Ryan. Graduate student members include Danielle D. King, Dia Chatterjee, Courtney Bryant, Danni Gardner, Lauren Collier, Caitlin Briggs and Anthony Misisco. Current undergraduate members Kate Denhouter, Naomi Dawood, Qi Huang, Janani Senthilkumar, and Josh Graves.

On a broad level, we study diversity in the workplace. Specifically, we seek to understand how diversity interacts with other elements of the workplace, how and why members of various social identities manage their identity in a work context, the conditions under which certain identity management strategies are adopted, and the consequences of adopting such strategies. Our studies also focus on how diverse individuals experience discrimination in their attempts to enter and remain within the workforce and how this discrimination can be reduced.