Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, PhD
Biography
As Vice Provost for Faculty Excellence and Academic Culture, Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, PhD, is responsible for overseeing faculty affairs and implementing the University’s strategic goals regarding academic culture and belonging. More specifically, she supports faculty development and advancement; oversees policy and procedures for the entire faculty lifecycle; and provides leadership around organizational culture, partnering with units across the University to cultivate an inclusive, welcoming academic environment in which all are empowered to thrive and succeed.
Prior to joining the Provost’s Office in September 2022, Dr. Ashburn-Nardo served on the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for 19 years. In addition to achieving the rank of Professor, she served as founding director of IUPUI’s Applied Social and Organizational Psychology doctoral program and director of IUPUI’s master’s program in industrial/organizational psychology.
An internationally recognized social psychologist, Dr. Ashburn-Nardo brings her scholarly expertise to her role as Vice Provost. Her research focuses on disparities in academia, healthcare, and other organizations; as well as individual and organizational strategies to address bias and foster inclusion. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health and is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, the Midwestern Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Select Publications
Ashburn-Nardo, L., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Smith, J. L., Sanzari, C. M., Vescio, T. K., & Glick, P. (2022). The reproducibility movement in psychology: Does researcher gender affect how people perceive scientists with a failed replication? Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 823147.
Chu, C., & Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2022). Black Americans' perspectives on ally confrontations of racial prejudice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 101, 104337.
Burrows, D., Pietri, E. S., Johnson, I. R., & Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2022). Promoting inclusive environments: In-group organizational endorsement as a tool to increase feelings of identity-safety among Black women. Sex Roles, 86, 67-88.
Moss-Racusin, C. A., Pietri, E. S., van der Toorn, J., & Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2021). Boosting the sustainable representation of women in STEM with evidence-based policy initiatives. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 50-58.
Cvencek, D., Greenwald, A. G., Meltzoff, A. N., Maddox, C. D., Nosek, B. A., Rudman, L. A., Devos, T., Dunham, Y., Baron, A. S., Steffens, M. C., Lane, K., Horcajo, J., Ashburn-Nardo, L., Quinby, A., Srivastava, S. B., Schmidt, K., Aidman, E., Tang, E., Farnham, S., Mellott, D. S., & Banaji, M. R. (2021). Meta-analytic use of balanced identity theory to validate the Implicit Association Test. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47, 185-200.
Pietri, E. S., Ashburn-Nardo, L., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2020). Peer assistant role models in a graduate computer science course. In H. R. Arabnia (Ed.), Springer Nature - Research Book Series: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence, Series Title: Advances in Software Engineering, Education, & e-Learning. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.
Ashburn-Nardo, L., Lindsey, A. P., Morris, K. A., & Goodwin, S. A. (2020). Who is responsible for confronting prejudice? The role of perceived and conferred authority. Journal of Business and Psychology, 35, 799-811.
Thomas, K. M., & Ashburn-Nardo, L. (2020). Black lives matter...still: Moving beyond acknowledging the problem toward effective solutions in graduate training and education. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal, 39, 741-747.
Ashburn-Nardo, L., & Abdul Karim, M. F. (2019). The CPR model: Decisions involved in confronting prejudiced responses. In R. Mallett, & M. Monteith (Eds.), Confronting prejudice and discrimination: The science of changing minds and behaviors. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
Nittrouer, C. L., Hebl, M. R., Ashburn-Nardo, L., Trump-Steele, R. C. E., Lane, D. M., & Valian, V. (2018). Gender disparities in colloquium speakers at top universities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115, 104-108.