J. Nicole Shelton

Nicole Shelton is the Stuart Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. Her area of study is social interactions between Whites and ethnic minorities. She explores how prejudice and interpersonal concerns about issues of prejudice influence the dynamics of intergroup interactions. Her work also includes how situational factors influence the development and maintenance of cross-racial friendships.

Professor Shelton has been on the Princeton faculty since 2000 and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, NY. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.