| Phillip Atiba Goff | |
| Birth Place: | Philadelphia |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Social psychology |
| Workplaces: | Pennsylvania State University UCLA John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Yale University |
| Education: | Harvard University AB 1999 Stanford University MA 2001 PhD 2005 |
| Thesis Title: | The space between US: stereotype threat for whites in interracial domains |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/741762497 |
| Thesis Year: | 2005 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Claude Steele |
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| Known For: | Work on race and policing in the United States |
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Phillip Atiba Goff is an American psychologist known for researching the relationship between race and policing in the United States.[1] He was appointed the inaugural Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2016, the college's first endowed professorship. In 2020, he became a Professor of African-American Studies and Psychology at Yale University.
Goff grew up in Philadelphia. He earned an AB from Harvard University in 1999 in Afro-American studies.[2] He received an MA in 2001 in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Stanford University in 2005.
Goff has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government[3] and an associate professor of social psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He taught at Pennsylvania State University between 2004-2005.
Goff is the Co-founder and CEO of the research center/action organization Center for Policing Equity,[4] [5] which conducts research with the aim of ensuring accountable and racially unbiased policing in the United States.[6] CPE is the host of a National Science Foundation-funded effort to collect national data on police behavior, specifically stops and use of force, called the National Justice Database.[7] The analytic framework Goff developed as part of the NJD has been called a potential model for police data accountability nationally.[8] In 2016, a decade after its founding, the Center relocated from UCLA to John Jay.[9] [10] In 2020, the Center relocated from John Jay to Yale.
Goff was also a key figure in the founding of the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice in 2014 and gave testimony before the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.[11]
In 2008, Goff, Margaret Thomas, and Matthew Christian Jackson published findings that white undergraduates incorrectly identified black women by sex more than any other race or gender.[12]
He has published extensively in journals.
In 1999, Goff co-founded the Oakland, California-based queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective.[13] During his time as a musician in this group, he was known as "Lightskindid Philosopher" or LSP.[14]