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Robert M. Sellers, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Principal Investigator - Lab Director
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1990
Email: rsellers@umich.edu
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Biographical Summary
Dr. Robert Sellers is a Professor in the Department
of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Research Associate
at the Institute for Social Research. A native of Cincinnati,
Ohio, Dr. Sellers attended Howard University where he received
All-American honors in football. After graduating cum laude
with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology in 1985,
he went on to earn a Ph.D. in personality psychology from
the University of Michigan in 1990. Following his graduate
work, Dr. Sellers served as an Assistant and an Associate
professor in the Department of Psychology at the University
of Virginia. In 1997, Dr. Sellers returned to the University
of Michigan to continue his research and teaching efforts.
His primary research activities center around the development
of a conceptual model of the processes associated with the
way that African Americans attribute significance and meaning
to race in the way in which they define themselves (i.e. racial
identity).
In collaboration with a number of his graduate students,
he has published several recent research articles and book
chapters on the subject. In addition to his research on African
American racial identity, Dr. Sellers has published several
research articles and book chapters examining the life experiences
of student-athletes. He is particularly interested in factors
associated with the psycho-social development of the African
American student-athlete. Dr. Sellers has served as a consultant
to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Presidents
Commission's Study of the Life Experiences of Student-Athletes,
NCAA Research Committee, as well as the Principal Investigator
of the Student-Athlete Life Stress Project. At present, he
is the Principle Investigator of a national study evaluating
academic support programs for student-athletes at NCAA Division
I institutions.
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