Dr. Shannon Brady

Shannon Brady is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research examines how people make meaning of their experiences and the consequences of that meaning-making for well-being, relationships, and achievement. In particular, she focuses on how institutional practices and messages--especially in education--can affect students in ways that perpetuate, exacerbate, or mitigate inequality. She is one of the leading experts on students' psychological experiences of academic probation. Prior to graduate school, she was an elementary and middle school teacher on the Oglala Lakota Reservation in South Dakota. In July 2025, Dr. Brady received the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which recognizes a tenure-track College faculty member who is still in the early part of their career.