Dr. Nyla R. Branscombe is Professor of Psychology at University of Kansas. She received her B.A. from York University in Toronto in 1980, a M.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1982, and her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1986. Dr. Nyla held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987. In 1993 she was a Visiting Fellow at Free University of Amsterdam. She served as Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin for 3 years, and presently serves as Associate Editor of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Dr. Nyla has published more than 100 articles and chapters in professional journals and edited volumes. In 1999, she was a recipient of the Otto Klienberg prize for research on Intercultural and International Relations from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. In 2004, she co-edited the volume, Collective Guilt: International Perspectives published by Cambridge University Press., and the 2007 volume Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination, published by the American Psychological Association.

Her current research focuses primarily on 2 main issues: the psychology of privileged groups, in particular why and when they may feel guilt about their advantages and harmful actions toward other social groups, and the psychology of disadvantaged groups, especially how they cope with discrimination and prejudice.