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Professor Ursula Moffitt Accepts a Position at the University of New Mexico!  

We are thrilled and proud to share that DICE lab’s former postdoctoral fellow and collaborator, Dr. Ursula Moffitt, has accepted a position in the Education Psychology program at the University of New Mexico’s College of Education and Human Sciences. Congratulations, Professor Moffitt!  

DICE Lab in the News!

Several online platforms wrote about DICE’s most recently published article which found critical differences in the ways Black and white parents talked with their children about Black Lives Matter in 2020. 

New Publication

The article Exploring Whether and How Black and White Parents Talk With Their Children About Race: M(ai)cro Race Conversations About Black Lives Matter was recently published in Developmental Psychology. Congratulations to DICE Lab’s current and former members: Dr. Onnie Rogers, Chiara Dorsi, Dr. Katharine Scott, Finn Wintz, and Sarah Eisenman, and their research collaborators: Drs. David Chae and Andrew Meltzoff! 

Vanessa Cordova Accepted to present at MPA 2024

Vanessa Cordova has been accepted to present her work titled “Master Narrative of Racialized Police Murders: Examining Parent-Child Conversations” at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Congratulations, Vanessa! 

Sheena Tan is awarded Northwestern’s Undergraduate Research Grant

The Northwestern University Office of Undergraduate Research Academic Year Undergraduate Research Grant will support Sheena’s honors thesis work, titled “A Critical Perspective on the Experiences of Singaporean Parents Speaking Singlish.” Congratulations, Sheena!  

Brandon Dull is awarded a Clara Mayo Grant

The Clara Mayo Grant Program, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) aims to support Masters’ theses and pre-dissertation research on sexism, racism, or prejudice and will support Brandon’s work titled “A Critical Qualitative Examination of How White Adolescent Boys Negotiate Privilege, Power, and Oppression.” Congratulations, Brandon! 

IPR Policy Brief: "The Impact of Vicarious Racism on Mental Health"

The Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University has generated a new policy brief based on a vicarious racism study. Click here to read the report

New Publication

The article Intersectionality and Identity: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis of U.S. Research in Psychological Science was recently published in Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. Congratulations to DICE Lab’s former Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Ursula Moffitt, Dr. Rogers, and the whole team who worked on this piece!  

DICE Lab Celebration of an amazing year and our new graduates!

A beautiful sunny day, delicious food, and all the DICE lab love marked our end-of-the-academic-year gathering. On this opportunity, we celebrated our DICErs hard work and growth during the year AND our incredible graduating members: Djamila, Eivan, Elana, Finn, Mairead, and Shira. Thank you for all your remarkable contributions to the DICE lab and we wish you all the best in what’s to come!  

Transdisciplinary Team Lead by Dr. Rogers is awarded new Spencer Foundation’s Pilot Vision Grant!

The Spencer Foundation has launched a new grant program that aims to support transformative research projects designed to reimagine education systems for equity, Spencer Foundation’s strategy is to support this work via their Vision Grants and their Transformative Research Grants. The collaborative project titled “Building Just and Humane Schools to Transform Education Systems” seeks to foster just and humane learning environments where all students can learn and thrive has been awarded a pilot Vision Grant.  

DICErs Reunion at the University of Washington, Seattle!

Current graduate students at the University of Washington and former DICErs, Kara Dastrup (former Lab Manager) and Jason Schwartz (former Research Assistant) reunited with Dr. Rogers during her May 2023 visit to UW’s Seattle campus to deliver a research seminar titled M(ai)cro: Centering the Macrosystem in Human Development 

Josiah Rosario is awarded the 2023 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship!

DICE Lab member and Northwestern’s Ph.D. Candidate Josiah Rosario is one of the 35 awardees of this prestigious and highly competitive fellowship which seeks to “support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world” (National Academy of Education, 2022). Specifically, this fellowship will support Josiah’s dissertation work titled: “Understanding students’ school experiences and identities in the sociopolitical context of racial hostility.” Congratulations, Josiah!  

DICE Lab at SRCD 2023!

DICE lab’s presence at the Society for Child Development’s (SRCD) 2023 biennial meeting included members’ poster and talk presentations, the participation of our PI, Dr. Onnie Rogers as moderator and speaker in different panels, and 3 awards: Dr. Rogers received a Transdisciplinary Multi-Sector Collaboration Research Seed Grant; former DICE lab postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ursula Moffitt, received an Early Career Research Contributions Award; and Graduate Student Brandon Dull received a Student and Early Career Council’s Poster Award. Congratulations!  

New Publication

The article Family Racial/Ethnic Socialization Through the Lens of Multiracial Black Identity: A M(ai)cro Analysis of Meaning-Making was recently published in Race and Social Problems, an Official Journal of the Center for Race and Social Problems at the University of Pittsburgh. This article is a collaboration between DICE’s doctoral student Courtney Jones and DICE’s Director, Dr. Onnie Rogers. Congratulations! 

Dr. Ursula Moffitt receives the SRCD Early Career Research Contributions Award!

DICE Lab collaborator and former Postdoctoral Scholar, Dr. Ursula Moffit is one of the five scholars awarded the 2023 Early Career Research Contributions Award from the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD). All SRCD Awardees will be recognized in March at the upcoming SRCD Conference in Salt Lake City, UT. Congratulations, Dr. Moffitt! 

Multiple DICE Lab projects have been accepted for SRCD's Biennial Meeting

Multiple DICE Lab projects have been accepted to be part of the Society for Research in Child Development’s (SRCD) Biennial Meeting, which will occur on March 23-25, 2023, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Congratulations DICERs! 

New Publication

The article The Ongoing Development of Strength-Based Approaches to People Who Hold Systemically Marginalized Identities was recently published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review, an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. This article is a collaboration between DICE’s social psychology doctoral student Josiah Rosario, social psychology doctoral student, David Silverman, and social psychologist, Dr. Mesmin Destin. Congratulations! 

WHAT WE DO

our research

The Development of Identities and Cultural Environments (DICE) lab conducts research on the development of identities and intersectionality among children and adolescents in diverse cultural environments. Our various projects explore research-related questions such as:

“How do children understand what it means to be White, to be a boy, to be a Black girl? How do adolescents make sense of racial and gender stereotypes, and can we help them to resist or challenge these stereotypes? What are the consequences of youth identities for their psychosocial outcomes and academic pathways?”

DICE is currently conducting multiple research projects that investigate identity development and intersectionality in school settings. Please, click below to learn more about current projects!

WHO WE ARE

our team

The Development of Identities in Cultural Environments (DICE) lab is home to a diverse group of faculty members, graduate students, staff, and research assistants who bring prospect, collaboration, and leadership to Northwestern University’s campus in Evanston Illinois. We work together to help answer related-questions about the development of identities and intersectionality among children.

If you are interested in joining us for research opportunities with the DICE lab at Northwestern University in Evanston, please, fill out an inquiry here!

Dr. Onnie Rogers, Principal Investigator of the DICE lab, is a developmental psychologist and identity scholar whose research curiosities converge at the intersection of human development, diversity and equity, and education. Please, click below to read more about Dr. Rogers and the rest of the DICE lab team!

JOIN OUR TEAM

don’t be shy

If you are interested in joining us for research opportunities with the DICE lab at Northwestern University in Evanston, please, fill out an inquiry here!