Linda R. Tropp is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Faculty Associate in the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA).

For more than two decades she has studied how members of different groups experience contact with each other, and how group differences in status affect cross-group relations.

Her work seeks to foster the dual goals of promoting positive relations between groups while achieving ever-greater levels of intergroup equality and justice. She has worked with national organizations on initiatives to promote racial integration and equity in the U.S., and with nongovernmental organizations to evaluate interventions designed to bridge group differences in divided societies around the globe.

A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Tropp has received distinguished research and teaching awards from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the International Society of Political Psychology.

Dr. Tropp is coauthor of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011) and editor of several books, including Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011), the Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012), and Making Research Matter: A Psychologist’s Guide to Public Engagement (2018).