Derald Wing Sue
Derald Wing Sue | |
|---|---|
| Born | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Occupations | Professor, author |
| Awards | APF Gold Medal for Life Achievement in the Public Interest (2015); APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology (2019); Division 45 Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award (2022) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Oregon State University University of Oregon |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychology |
Sub-discipline | Counseling psychology |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
Notable students | Kevin Nadal |
Derald Wing Sue is an American professor of counseling psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. A scholar of multiculturalism, race, and racism, he has authored 24 books, the most recent published in 2026, and more than 200 scholarly publications, including Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Overcoming our Racism, and Understanding Abnormal Behavior and popularized the concept of the microaggression.
Described as "without doubt the most influential multicultural scholar in the United States," his research has been cited more than 83,000 times on Google Scholar.