As of Fall 2023, Gerald Higginbotham is an assistant professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Utilizing social and cultural psychological insights, Higginbotham researches the imprint of history on people’s modern social perceptions and policy attitudes, and the psychological underpinnings of how people perceive history and its consequences. He leads and is the PI of the Culture, History, Identity, and Policy (CHIP) lab at Batten.

Higginbotham was a postdoctoral research associate at the Batten School.  He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles and holds an M.A. in Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles and a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University with a minor in African & African-American Studies.