Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States.[2] 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.

Phillip Atiba Goff
Goff in 2020
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard University AB 1999
Stanford University MA 2001
PhD 2005[1]
Known forWork on race and policing in the United States
Scientific career
FieldsSocial psychology
InstitutionsPennsylvania State University
UCLA
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University
ThesisThe space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains (2005)
Doctoral advisorClaude Steele

Early life

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Goff grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies.[1] He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005.[3][1]

Career

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Goff has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government[4] and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005.[1]

Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity,[3][5] which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States.[6] CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database.[7] The analytic framework Goff developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally.[8] In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay.[9][10] In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.

Goff was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 [10] and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.[11]

Research

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In 2008, Goff, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender.[12][clarification needed]

He has published extensively in journals.[1]

Personal life

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In 1999, Goff co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective.[13] During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Phillip Atiba Goff, PhD Curriculum Vita" (PDF). US House of Representatives. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
  2. ^ "First Named Professorship Established At John Jay With Funding From Ford Foundation And Atlantic Philanthropies". John Jay College of Criminal Justice. March 22, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Faculty Page". UCLA Psychology Department. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  4. ^ Meagher, Tom (May 18, 2016). "The lack of information about policing is criminal". Newsweek. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  5. ^ "History". Center for Policing Equity. Los Angeles. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
  6. ^ Woo, Marcus (January 21, 2015). "How Science Is Helping America Tackle Police Racism". Wired. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  7. ^ Goff, Phillip Atiba (August 26, 2014). "America's Lack of a Police Behavior Database Is a Disgrace. That's Why I'm Leading a Team to Build One". The New Republic. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  8. ^ Jervis, Rick (October 12, 2016). "Report on racial disparities among Austin Police could be model for USA". USA Today. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  9. ^ "Taking On Racial Profiling With Data". NPR. December 14, 2014. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  10. ^ a b Roberts, Sam (March 22, 2016). "U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties Will Move to John Jay College". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  11. ^ "President's Task Force Hearing on Community Policing". C-SPAN. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  12. ^ Onwuachi-Willig, Angela (June 18, 2018). "What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement". Yale Law Journal Forum. 128: 115. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  13. ^ Hix, Lisa (June 22, 2006). "Deep Dickollective". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  14. ^ Zarley, B. David (February 20, 2013). "Tim'm West and the masculine mystique". Chicago Reader. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
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