Nilanjana Dasgupta

Nilanjana Dasgupta is provost professor of psychology and founding director of the Institute of Diversity Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has a PhD in psychology from Yale University. She is a leader in research on implicit bias and science-driven interventions. Her passion is to translate science to advance social justice. Her research has won many awards. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, London Times, International Herald Tribune, National Public Radio, Wired, Boston Globe, and Scientific American Mind. Her first book, Change the Wallpaper: Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities, was published by Yale University Press and recently nominated by Behavioral Scientist magazine as one of the Most Notable Books of 2025.