Valerie Purdie Greenaway
Valerie Purdie Greenaway | |
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| Born | Valerie Joyce Purdie |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Valerie Purdie-Vaughns |
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| Spouse | Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Social Psychology |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Thesis | Identity Contingency Threat: The Impact of Circumstantial Cues on African-Americans’ trust in diversity settings (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Claude Steele |
| Website | psychology |
Valerie Purdie Greenaway, who has also published under the surnames Purdie-Vaughns and Purdie, is an American social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Columbia University. Her research interests include diversity, stereotypes and intergroup relations. She is one of the first African Americans to receive tenure in the academic sciences at Columbia University, and is credited with coining the term "intersectional invisibility".