IRENE LÓPEZ PH.D.
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I am trained as a cross-cultural and clinical psychologist and work as a Professor at Kenyon College, which is a lovely rural college in the middle of Ohio. At Kenyon, I teach courses in Psychology, Women and Gender Studies, and Latino Studies.

Born and raised in the Bronx, I am the first in my family to ever to go to college or graduate school. These experiences have shaped me and explain my interests in gender, acculturation, socioeconomic status and cross-cultural psychopathology. Additionally, as a light-skinned Puerto Rican, issues related to skin color, ethnic and racial identity and racial misidentification have always interested me. As a cross-cultural and feminist psychologist, I am primarily interested in studying those have traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in the field of psychology. As a liberation psychologist, I believe it is important to help and support others, and to this end have created another website specifically for faculty of color.

Thus far, I have been fortunate enough to receive a number of teaching and research awards for my work, such as Kenyon's highly prized Kenyon Trustee Teaching Award and the Harvey Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences. I have also received the APA Henry David International Teaching Mentoring Award and this coming year will serve as president-elect of Division 48, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence. 


I taught abroad in the Semester at Sea program, where I visited and lectured in China, Japan, Viet Nam, India, Mauritius, South Africa, Ghana and Brazil, and was the Director of the Kenyon in Rome program.  I also served as Kenyon's Global Campus Liaison and worked with my colleagues to help internationalize our curricula. Most recently, I completed a Fulbright in Budapest, Hungary where I taught classes on the psychology of immigration and cross-cultural psychology to students in the Masters Program of Social Integration at Eötvös Loránd University. 

I am an avid photographer and proud mama of two. 

My Areas of Expertise:
Cross-cultural psychopathology (particularly trauma), women's issues in ethnic minority communities, acculturation and mental health, phenotype and skin color, psychology of immigration, disaster psychology

Contact Information:

Irene López, PhD.
Kenyon College
Department of Psychology
203 North College Road
Samuel Mather 302
Gambier, Ohio 43022
United States


OFFICE: (740) 427-5373
FAX:     (740) 427-5237 
EMAIL: lopezi@kenyon.edu
Twitter: @ProfIreneLopez


  • About Me
  • Teaching
    • Teaching Philosophy >
      • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
      • Samples of Innovative Teaching
    • My Teaching Blog
    • International Teaching >
      • Kenyon Copenhagen (2021)
      • Franklin University Switzerland
      • Ecuador - USFQ (2020)
      • Fulbright in Hungary! (Spring 2020)
      • Saudi Arabia - Effat University (2016)
      • Kenyon in Rome (2012) >
        • Snapshots of Rome
        • Rome >
          • Visit to Insane Asylum (Santa Maria della Pieta)
        • Travel throughout Italy >
          • Abruzzo
          • Pompeii
          • Venice
          • Florence
          • Siena
          • Fumone
      • Semester At Sea (2010) >
        • Japan
        • China
        • Viet Nam
        • India
        • Mauritius
        • South Africa
        • Ghana
        • Brazil
    • Teaching Awards >
      • Henry David International Mentoring Award (2015)
      • Trustee Teaching Award
    • Students >
      • Need a Recommendation?
  • Research
    • Areas of Interest >
      • Acculturation
      • Ataques de Nervios
      • Class
      • Skin Color
    • CV
    • Citations >
      • Academia.Edu
      • Research Gate
  • Service
    • Focus Groups with Syrian Refugees (2014)
    • APA Delegation to Cuba (2012)
  • Photovoice
    • Photovoice in Puerto Rico
    • Photovoice in Haiti
    • Photovoice in the Dominican Republic
    • Photography Project with Rania Matar
  • Photography