Yves Labiessiere

A social psychologist by training, Yves Labissiere is an associate professor at Portland State University where he teaches classes and conducts research on the psychology of oppression and empowerment, diversity and learning, inter and intra-group relations and conflict. His research interests focus broadly on intra/intergroup relations and more specifically on the negotiation of notions of Blackness and racial and ethnic identities among groups categorized as Black in the US. He has years of experience conducting fieldwork with vulnerable populations: immigrants, refugees, and Black populations in Miami, New York, and Portland. Yves recently finished a Pew Funded project examining ethnic difference in civic engagement among African Americans, Cuban, Jamaicans, Haitians, and European Americans and the role that faith and religion played. As the Chair of the Institutional Assessment Council, Yves leads a campus-wide initiative to develop campus learning outcomes and to bolster campus-wide assessment. Yves received a BA from Yale, and a doctorate in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is an experienced assessment specialist and program evaluator.