Johanna Lukate

Dr Johanna M. Lukate is a psychologist and research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, where she established the Minerva Fast Track Research Group ‘Migration, Identity, and Blackness in Europe’. She holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge and was a Fox International Fellow at Yale University. Her research has been published in a number of anthologies and academic journals and she is best known for her popular TEDx Talk on ‘The Psychology of Black Hair’. She lives in Berlin with her husband and two children.

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