Mahzarin Banaji

Who is Mahzarin Banaji?

Mahzarin Rustum Banaji is an American social psychologist at Harvard University.

She was born and raised in Secunderabad where she attended St. Ann's High School. Her B.A. is from Nizam College and her M.A. in Psychology from Osmania University in Hyderabad. In 1986, Banaji received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington. From 1986-2001 she taught at Yale University, where she was Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Psychology. In 2001, she moved to Harvard University as Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology. She also served as the first Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2002-2008. In 2005, Banaji was elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. In 2009 was named Herbert A. Simon Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Banaji is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.