Please join us for a Psychology Colloquium featuring Dr. Alex L. Pieterse, an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Culture at Boston College.

Dr. Pieterse completed his graduate studies at Teachers College, Columbia University where he studied with Robert T. Carter and undertook his predoctoral internship at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Pieterse’s scholarship focuses on psychosocial aspects of race and racism, racial trauma and anti-racism training and advocacy. Dr. Pieterse is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and Incoming Editor of The Counseling Psychologist. His most recent book co-authored with Robert T. Carter and Jessica Forsyth is titled Black Americans’ Strength-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being. Dr. Pieterse is a licensed psychologist and maintains an independent psychotherapy practice providing individual and couples counseling.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department Diversity Committee and the Colloquium Committee