He joined the faculty at CSUSB in the fall of 2014 after completing his Ph.D. (’12) at the University of Maine and a Postdoctoral fellowship (’14) at Wesleyan University. His research broadly examines stigma, prejudice and discrimination. In particular, he investigates how being the target of stigma affects perception, behavior, well-being (e.g., self-esteem, emotion, physiological and psychological stress), and performance (e.g., GPA, cognitive performance) among both low status (e.g., women, gay men, racial minorities) and high status (e.g., men, European Americans) groups.