Sophie Trawalter

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
Northwestern University
PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2006
s-trawalter@northwestern.edu
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Sophie Trawalter is a postdoctoral fellow in Northwestern's Department of Psychology and the Institute for Policy Research's Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, where she works with IPR Faculty Fellows Emma Adam, P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, and Jennifer Richeson. Trawalter studies the behavioral, emotional, and cognitive dynamics of interracial contact. Her dissertation examined whether behaviors during interracial contact reflect coping responses to stressful encounters. She plans to extend this work by exploring short-term psychobiological outcomes (e.g., cortisol levels) and long-term health outcomes of interracial contact. In 2007, she received a three-year National Service Research Award, a postdoctoral training grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to study racial socialization, interracial contact, and students' stress and development."  

Trawalter received her BA in psychology and BS in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2002, and her PhD in psychological and brain sciences from Dartmouth College in 2006.