1. Mahzarin Banaji was born and raised in Secunderabad to a Parsi family, where she attended St Ann's High School.
17 Facts About Mahzarin Banaji
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In 1986, Banaji received a PhD from The Ohio State University and was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington.
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Mahzarin Banaji served as the first Carol K Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2002 to 2008.
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In 2005, Mahzarin Banaji was elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
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Mahzarin Banaji was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.
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Mahzarin Banaji was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
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Mahzarin Banaji was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
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Mahzarin Banaji is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.
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Mahzarin Banaji served as Secretary of the APS, on the Board of Scientific Affairs of the APA, and on the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
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Mahzarin Banaji is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where she contributes to programs on behavior and decision-making.
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Mahzarin Banaji has served as associate editor of Psychological Review and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and co-edited Essays in Social Psychology for Psychology Press.
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Mahzarin Banaji serves on an advisory board of the Oxford University Press on social cognition and social neuroscience.
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Mahzarin Banaji has served or serves on the editorial board of several journals, among them Psychological Science, Psychological Review, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Social Cognition, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.
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Mahzarin Banaji's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Third Millennium Foundation, among other organizations.
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Mahzarin Banaji was director of undergraduate studies at Yale and has served as head tutor and chair of the department of psychology at Harvard.
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Mahzarin Banaji was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Carnegie Mellon University in 2017.
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Mahzarin Banaji was honored alongside Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a 2018 Golden Goose Award for their work on implicit bias.