Kumar Yogeeswaran is an associate professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He did his Phd at the University of Massachusetts in the US. His primary research lies in the realm of intergroup relations with a focus on trying to understand how people’s membership in particular groups (e.g. ethnic, gender, or national groups) shape their attitudes, stereotypes, and behaviours toward others as well as their own self-conceptions. Much his primary work examines the complexities and challenges of achieving national unity in societies comprised of diverse cultural groups, while identifying new strategies that help reduce intergroup conflict in such nations, including cultural diversity ideologies and intergroup toleration.