Kipling D. Williams, BS, MA, PhD

Before coming to Purdue, Williams was on faculties at Macquarie University and University of New South Wales (both in Sydney, Australia), University of Toledo (Ohio), and Drake University (Iowa). He is a pioneer and world-leading expert on the social and psychological dynamics of ostracism. In addition to his authored book, Ostracism: The Power of Silence, he has (co-)edited 12 books, including The Social Outcast, the Handbook of Ostracism, Exclusion, and Rejection, and most recently, Exclusion and Extremism. He has been an associate editor of Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice, as well as Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and he was the editor of Social Influence from 2010-2019. Since 2003, he teaches an annual one-week research Master’s course on Ostracism at the Free University-Amsterdam and has also conducted ostracism workshops in Switzerland, Germany, Hong Kong, and Australia. His research interests include ostracism, social influence, and motivation in groups. He has published over 50 book chapters and 150 peer-reviewed articles. The Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation have funded his research. In 2012, he was a Lorentz Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He was a co-winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological (AAAS) Prize. He received the Purdue University’s College of Health and Human Sciences Research Achievement Award (2011), Faculty Engagement Award (2014), and the Ohio State University Department of Psychology Distinguished Alumnus Award (2023). He is past president of the Society for Australasian Social Psychologists and the Midwestern Psychological Association.