My research focuses on White individuals’ racial attitudes, their responses to societal racism, and the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (i.e., negative consequences experienced by Whites as dominant group members in an oppressive system). My colleagues and I developed the Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites (PCRW) scale, which measures empathic reactions toward racism, White guilt, and irrational fear of people from other racial groups. Presently, we are deepening our understanding of the relevance of these costs of racism to White students in increasingly diverse environments, and also applying costs of racism theory to White counselors and educators.
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Faculty Research Profiles: Lisa Spanierman
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Counseling Psychology
Educational Psychology
Educational Psychology
188T Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
Champaign, IL 61820USA
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Research Biography
Degrees
- Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002
- M.A., Psychological Counseling, Columbia University, Teachers College, 1997
- Ed.M., Psychological Counseling, Columbia University, Teachers College, 1997
- B.S., Psychology, University of Florida, 1990
Key Professional Appointments
- Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008--
- Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-2008
Activities & Honors
- Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of Illinois Psi Chi Chapter, 2009
- Distinguished Scholar, College of Education, 2008-2009
- Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, College of Education, 2008
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007- present
- Editorial Board Member, The Counseling Psychologist, 2006-2008
Grants
- Principal Investigator, Hardie Collaborative Research Stipend Renewal: Chief Nostalgia: An Interdisciplinary Examination, Bureau of Educational Research, 2008
- Principal Investigator, Using Multiple Methods to Examine Multicultural Competence among White Mental Health Providers, NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program, 2008
- Fellow, Examining Multicultural Counseling Competence among White Applied Psychology Trainees: An Emerging Theory, Bureau of Educational Research, 2005
Selected Publications
- Spanierman, L. B., Todd, N. R., & Anderson, C. J. (2009). Psychosocial costs of racism to Whites: Understanding patterns among university students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56, 239-252.
- Spanierman, L. B., Poteat, V. P., Wang, Y. F., & Oh, E. (2008). Psychosocial costs of racism to White counselors: Predicting various dimensions of multicultural counseling competence. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55, 75-88.
- Spanierman, L. B., Neville, H. A., Liao, H., Hammer, J., & Wang, Y. F. (2008). Participation in formal and informal campus diversity experiences: Effects on students’ racial democratic beliefs. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 1, 108-125.
- Spanierman, L. B., Oh, E., Poteat, V. P., Hund, A. R., McClair, V. L., Beer, A. M., & Clarke, A. M. (2008). White university students’ responses to societal racism: A qualitative investigation. The Counseling Psychologist, 36, 839-870.
- Poteat, V. P. & Spanierman, L. B. (2008). Further validation of the psychosocial costs of racism to whites scale among a sample of employed adults. The Counseling Psychologist, 36, 871-894.