Associate Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan
About
Dr. Deborah Rivas-Drake is an associate professor of psychology and education at the University of Michigan, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Black Youth in Context and faculty associate in Latina/o Studies. Her research focuses on ethnic and racial processes in youth development. Dr. Rivas-Drake recently completed a term as an associate editor for Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and is currently an associate editor for Developmental Psychology. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and American Educational Research Association (AERA) Grants Program.
Current Work:
Together with the CASA Lab, Dr. Rivas-Drake is exploring how schools, families, peers, and communities influence the development of ethnic and racial identity, and how such identities shape youths' academic and psychological outcomes. Current projects examine how friendships shape ethnic-racial identity and academic and social/emotional adjustment in diverse youth and how parent-adolescent processes inform ethnic-racial identity and psychosocial functioning among Latino adolescents. Her research appears in Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, and Journal of Youth and Adolescence, among others.
Research Area Keyword(s):
ethnic-racial identity, ethnic-racial discrimination, social contexts, education, peers
