Hannah Nam is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Brooklyn College and holds an appointment on the doctoral faculty in Basic & Applied Social Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She completed her Ph.D. in social psychology at New York University. 

Hannah is interested in the psychology of political complacency and political action in contexts of systemic and cultural inequality, particularly in the domains of racial and economic disparities. Currently, her research explores questions such as:

(1) How do people manage their needs and desires to take care of themselves as individuals with their desires to “take care of” and contribute to society through political action?

(2) How are our explanations about groups and diversity related to our social and political attitudes and behaviors?

To address these questions, she uses survey, experimental, and neuroscientific methods to understand social and political behavior across multiple levels of analysis — an interdisciplinary approach that lies at the intersection of social psychology, political science, and cognitive neuroscience.