Onnie Rogers Ph.D.

Onnie Rogers, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology and human development and director of the Development of Identities in Cultural Environments (DICE) lab at Northwestern University. The DICE Lab conducts research that centers on the perspectives and experiences of racially and ethnically diverse young people. As a developmental psychologist and identity scholar, she is interested in social and educational inequities and the mechanisms through which macro-level disparities are both perpetuated and disrupted at the micro-level of identities and relationships. She asks how our social groups, and the ideologies and stereotypes that accompany them, shape how we see ourselves and interact with others. Her specific area of research investigates identity development — how children and adolescents learn about and make sense of their racial, ethnic, and gender identities; how cultural narratives and stereotypes shape the development and intersectionality of these identities; and the ways in which multiple identities influence adolescents’ social-emotional wellbeing and sense of purpose in the world.

Her academic career began as a student-athlete at UCLA, where her team won three NCAA Gymnastics Team Titles, and she earned a B.A. in psychology and educational studies. It was at UCLA that the idea of graduate school was planted, and she went on to earn her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from New York University.

She is a member of the Society for Research on Child Development, Society for Research on Adolescence, American Psychological Association, and American Educational Research Association and serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Adolescent Research and APA’s Cultural Diversity of Ethnic Minority Psychology journal. Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, and her research publications appear in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Journal of Research on Adolescence, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, and Human Development.