Plenary Address

Dr. Analia Albuja
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Applied Psychology, Northeastern University

Belonging and Social Identities: From Undergraduate Research to Assistant Professor

Dr. Analia Albuja is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Psychology and Applied Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. There, she directs the Belonging and Social Identities Lab, which investigates how multiple social identities (e.g., biracial, bicultural identities) are lived and perceived in a society that views social categories as distinct and static.

Dr. Albuja is a Ronald E. McNair Scholar who graduated from Truman in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a minor in Applied Statistics. While here, she completed a McNair research project on gender and cultural identities with Faculty Mentor Dr. Sherri Addis Palmer. 

Dr. Albuja earned her M.S. and PhD in Social Psychology at Rutgers University in 2020 and completed a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University in 2022. 

Through two lines of research, Dr. Albuja’s work examines 1) the identity experiences of people who hold multiple identities, and 2) how people who hold multiple (or otherwise stigmatized) identities are perceived by others. She studies these questions using a broad range of methodologies including experimental, physiological, behavioral, longitudinal, and developmental approaches as well as secondary analysis of large data sets. 

Outside of the lab, Dr. Albuja enjoys playing soccer, biking, running, reading books and singing karaoke (poorly but with a lot of enthusiasm).