Dr. Lori S. Hoggard is a leading scholar at the intersection of racism, identity, coping, and health. She holds a Ph.D. in Personality & Social Contexts Psychology from the University of Michigan. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Hoggard completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she worked in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Center for Health Equity Research within the Department of Social Medicine.

Now an Assistant Professor in the Applied Social Psychology area at NC State University, Dr. Hoggard continues her groundbreaking research, which aims to understand and mitigate the negative impacts of structural racism on mental and physical health. She focuses on: (1) elucidating whether racism is a distinct stressor for African Americans with physiological and psychological consequences that exceed those of non-race-related stressors, (2) explicating the mechanisms that underlie the associations between racism and deleterious outcomes, and (3) identifying person-related characteristics that serve as potential protective or vulnerability factors (e.g., racial identity) in the context of racism. Her current projects primarily focus on racial inequities in the carceral state. For instance, did you know that African Americans are 2.8 to 3.5 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by the police while unarmed? Dr. Hoggard also examines Black women’s experiences with gendered racism. Did you know that Black women (and birthing people) are 3 to 4 times more likely than white women (and birthing people) to die as a result of pregnancy- and childbirth-related complications? Through her research, Dr. Hoggard seeks to help address these important social problems via knowledge production and implementation science.