Monica Rose Biernat is a social psychologist known for her research on social judgment, stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Kansas. Biernat is the author of the monograph Standards and Expectancies: Contrast and Assimilation in Judgments of Self and Others, and co-editor of the 2008 volume Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination. Awards Biernat received the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Social Psychology in 1998/1999. The award citation emphasized her "outstanding, incisive research illuminating the linkage between social judgments and the perceiver’s subjective frame of reference." and "wide-ranging studies show[ing] how the judgments elicited by different target-individuals are partly determined by the target’s membership in an identifiable social group." Biernat and her colleagues were awarded the Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award in 2005 for their work on the volume The Maternal Wall: Research and Policy Perspectives Against Mothers. With her husband Chris Crandall, Biernat was honored for Distinguished Service to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) in 2012. Biernat and Crandall co-edited the Society's newsletter; Biernat also served as SPSP's Council Representative (2001-2003), Member and Chair of the Convention Committee (2007-2009), and Secretary-Treasurer of the Organization (2010-2012). Biography Biernat was born in 1963 and grew up in a Polish-Catholic neighborhood in Detroit, MI. She completed an A.B. degree in Psychology and Communication at University of Michigan in 1984. She continued her education at University of Michigan where she earned an M.A. in 1986 and Ph.D. in psychology (Social) in 1989, under the supervision of Melvin Manis. Her dissertation, titled Developing patterns of social judgment: Reliance on gender stereotypes vs. individuating information, tested participants ranging in age from kindergarten children to college students and found stability in their use of gender labels to make judgments about individuals. Biernat was an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Florida (1989-1992) prior to joining the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1992. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Mental Health, and the United States Department of Justice. Biernat was a Docking Faculty Scholar of the University of Kansas from 1999 to 2003. She was awarded the W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at University of Kansas in 2004. She received the Louise Byrd Graduate