Phillip Atiba Solomon
Phillip Atiba Solomon f.k.a Goff | |
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Solomon in 2020 | |
| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard University AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005 |
| 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 |
Phillip Atiba Solomon (formerly known as Philip Atiba Goff) is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States. 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.