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Dr. Brenda Major received her M.A from Miami University in 1975 and her Ph.D. in social psychology from Purdue University in 1978. From 1978 to 1995 she was a Professor in the Psychology Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she served as the Head of the Social Psychology Program from 1992 to 1995. She joined the Psychology Department at UCSB in 1995, where she is currently Professor Above-Scale. Dr. Major is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters
on coping, stigma, self-esteem, and intergroup relations. She also co-edited
(with John Jost of New York University) the book, The Psychology of Legitimacy.
A fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association of
Psychological Sciences, and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology,
Dr. Major also has been elected to the executive committees of the Society
of Experimental Social Psychology, the Society for Personality and Social
Psychology, and the International Society for the Study of Self and Identity.
She is past President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,
the largest professional society of personality and social psychologists
in the world. Dr. Major has served as Associate Editor of Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Group Processes and
Intergroup Relations, and serves on the editorial boards of numerous other
professional journals. Professor Major includes among her professional
honors being awarded the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize in
1986 and 1988 (and Honorable Mention in 2002) from the Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues, receiving the Distinguished Publication
Award from the Association of Women in Psychology in 1985, and being named
a California Distinguished Wellness Lecturer in 1997. She chaired the
American Psychological Association Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion
from 2006-2008. Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-7238 Mailing Address
Department of Psychology
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