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Telephone: 617-552-8429
Email: tummalan@bc.edu
Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department at md传媒国产剧 College. Her research and scholarship focus on the psychology of immigration and trauma, and culturally informed psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her research explores collective and interpersonal traumas faced by racial minority immigrants and subsequent generations, and sociocultural dynamics in the psychotherapeutic relationship that facilitate healing and growth. She is also interested in translating her research to support greater access to culturally informed clinical and community level interventions.
Professor Tummala-Narra is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Among her numerous awards and honors, she is among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).
She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. In addition to serving on several editorial boards of journals, she has served on various committees, boards, and task forces of the American Psychological Association (APA), such as the Presidential Task Force on Immigration, the Task Force on the Revision of the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists, and the Presidential Task Force on Trauma and Grief. Professor Tummala-Narra is also a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).
Tummala-Narra, P., Inman, A.G., Davidson, A.K., & Yeh, C.J. (2024). Racial socialization experiences among 1.5 and 2nd generation Indian Americans. The Counseling Psychologist, 52(3), 410鈥442.
Clauss-Ehlers, C.S., Hunter, S.J., Morse, G.S., & Tummala-Narra, P. (2023). Applying multiculturalism: An ecological approach to the Multicultural Guidelines. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Tummala-Narra, P., Gonzalez, L.D., & Nguyen, M. (2023). Experience of sexual violence among women of Mexican heritage raised in the U.S. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54(3), 385-406.
Tummala-Narra, P. (2022). Can we decolonize psychoanalytic theory and practice? Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(3), 217-234.
Tummala-Narra, P., Li, Z., Yang, E.J., Xiu, Z., Cui, E., & Song, Y. (2021). Family conflict and ethnic identity among Chinese American college students. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 91(1), 36-49.
Tummala-Narra, P. (Ed.) (2021). Trauma and racial minority immigrants: Turmoil, uncertainty, and resistance. APA Division 45 Book Series. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Tummala-Narra, P. (2020). The fear of immigrants. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37(1), 50-61.
Tummala-Narra, P., Gordon, J., Gonzalez, L.D., de Mello Barreto, L., Meerkins, T., Nguyen, M., Medzhitova, J., & Perazzo, P. (2019). Breaking the silence: Perspectives on sexual violence among Indian American women. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 10(4), 293-306.
Tummala-Narra, P., Li, Z., Chang, J., Yang, E., Jiang, J., Sagherian, M., Phan, J., & Alfonso, A. (2018). Developmental and contextual correlates of mental health and help seeking among Asian American college students. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88(6), 636-649.
Tummala-Narra, P. (2016). Psychoanalytic theory and cultural competence in psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
2023 American Writing Award, Social Change Category, in recognition of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines with co-authors, Clauss-Ehlers, Hunter, & Morse
2023 Top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report based on career-long data and for single year)
2021 Best Paper of 2019, 鈥淏reaking the silence: Perspectives on sexual violence among Indian American women,鈥 Asian American Journal of Psychology
2019 Distinguished Contributions to the Understanding of Cultural Diversity Award, Indo-American Psychiatric Association, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, & South Asian American Forum
2018 Fellow, American Psychological Association
2018 Patricia Arredondo Diversity and Equity Speaker Series Award, Counseling and Counseling Psychology, Arizona State University