Laith Al-Shawaf

Laith Al-Shawaf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCCS. Before moving to the U.S., he taught at a university in Turkey and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. Laith is a member of the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA), Chief Academic Advisor to the Center for Applied Social Cognition Research (CASCR) in Lebanon, and the primary editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions. His essays for popular audiences have been translated into several languages, and can be found here. The Association for Psychological Science (APS) has named him a Rising Star, and in 2022, he won the UCCS Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and the UCCS Students’ Choice Educator of the Year Award. In 2023, he won the UCCS LAS Outstanding Teaching Award for online teaching.