Yolanda Flores Niemann (Ph.D., Psychology, 1992, University of Houston) is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas (UNT). Previously, she served as Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affair at UNT, Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Utah State University, and held numerous administrative positions at Washington State University. At Washington State, Utah State, and the University of Houston she also served as a faculty member of various academic units including Psychology, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Women’s Studies, Disability Studies, Mexican American Studies, and Black Studies. She has been Principal Investigator of over 40 million dollars in federal outreach grants. Dr. Flores Niemann has served on the Washington State Governor’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs and on multiple committees of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Indian Psychologists, and was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. Her research interests include the effects and social ecological contexts of stereotypes and tokenism across various domains, the psychological effects of tokenism, interventions for diffusing tokenism, interventions for microaggressions, and effective mentoring across demographic groups. Her most recent book (coedited) is Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Narratives from this book have been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Diversity In Academe, The Gender Issue, in several radio programs, and was an editors’ pick in CHOICE Magazines. Other books include Black/Brown Relations and Stereotypes, and Chicana Leadership. She has notable chapters in To Improve the Academy; The Handbook of Chicana and Chicano Psychology and Mental Health; The Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology; and Everyday Acts Against Racism: Raising Children in a Multiracial World. Her articles have been published in multiple refereed journals including: Journal of Applied Psychology; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Sociological Perspectives; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; The Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior; Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Coedited journal special issues include: The Journal of Social Issues - “Inequities in Higher Education: Issues and Promising Practices in a World Ambivalent about Affirmative Action” and The Counseling Psychologist, an issue focusing on Latina/Latino mental health.
