Dr. Gyamfuah Sarfo-Mensah is a cultural and developmental psychologist whose
work centers on issues at the nexus of identity, culture, and environment. Her
interests are broadly organized around two lines of inquiry. Firstly, she examines
life course development within cultural, ecological, and structural contexts. Her
recent work uses qualitative, ethnographic, and community-based participatory
action methods to explore how migration and electronic waste work shape the
psychosocial trajectories of young men in urban Ghana. Secondly, she is
interested in how messages about Black/African cultural identity and
relationships to nature become salient and are transmitted intergenerationally
through folklore, storytelling, and artistic practice.
Courses taught
• Introduction to Behavioral Research Methods
• Life Span Development
• Senior Thesis
• Social Psychology
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