Nicole M. Else-Quest is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she was on the faculty at Villanova University and then at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has been teaching the psychology of women and gender regularly since 2004 and currently teaches a course on women in science. Else-Quest’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and focuses on intersectionality, gender and ethnic identity development in adolescence, and diversity in STEM. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and a member of APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women) and Division 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity).
