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ENRIQUE NEBLETT
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) University of Michigan, 2006. PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Lab Director of the African American Youth Wellness Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Neblett’s research examines the relation between racism-related stress and health in African American and ethnic minority youth, with a focus on racial and ethnic protective factors and mechanisms that promote youth wellness. A new line of research examines psychophysiological mechanisms that may account for the hypothesized link between racism experiences and racial health disparities. Dr. Neblett’s work has been presented at several national conferences and published or accepted for publication in journals such as Child Development, The Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Journal of Black Psychology, and The Journal of Research on Adolescence. In addition to his research accomplishments, he regularly teaches courses such as Developmental Psychopathology, Psychology of Black Americans, Abnormal Psychology, and Psychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence. Dr. Neblett is Faculty Advisor of the Minority Psychology Student Association and has served as the Co-Chair of the Diversity Training Committee in the Department of Psychology. In 2010, Dr. Neblett was recognized as the UNC Psychology Club’s Faculty Research Mentor of the Year which recognizes one faculty member each year for “outstanding mentorship to undergraduate students conducting research in psychology.” He is also a former recipient of the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, a two-year research and training award that was funded by NSF to examine racial identity, coping with racism, and cardiovascular physiological responses to stress. Dr. Neblett is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Society for Research in Adolescence. He is also a provisional Licensed Psychologist in the state of North Carolina.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
The concept of race has always played an important role in the psychology of the African American experience. As far back as the early twentieth century, the work of Kenneth Clark helped to highlight the important role that psychology could play in understanding the impact of prejudice and discrimination on American society. With the goal of understanding how African Americans negotiate the “race problem” (DuBois, 1909), Dr. Neblett’s research focuses on understanding the differential impact of racism-related stress experiences on African American youths’ health outcomes and overall wellness. Current work adopts developmental psychopathology and risk and resilience frameworks to explore underlying protective and vulnerability mechanisms and pathways in the relation between racism-related stress and impairment in youths’ academic, social, and mental and physical health outcomes. Dr. Neblett’s research program has focused specifically on the moderating and mediating influences of (1) racial identity; (2) racial socialization; and (3) physiological functioning and reactivity on and in the association between racism-related stress and youth health and health-related outcomes.
Seaton, E.K., Neblett, E.W., Upton, R., Hammond, W.P., & Sellers, R.M. (2011). The moderating capacity of racial identity in the longitudinal relationship between perceived discrimination and psychological well-being among African American youth. Child Development, 82(6), 1850-1867. Neblett, E.W., Jr., Terzian, M., & Harriott, V. (2010). From racial discrimination to substance use: the protective effects of racial socialization. Child Development Perspectives, 4(2), 131-137. |
