Nnamdi Pole, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor
Contact

Email: npole@smith.edu 
Pronouns: he/him

Nnamdi Pole smiling in grey collared shirt and glasses
Education

Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Rutgers University

Biography

Nnamdi Pole is a chaired professor of psychology at Smith College and a licensed clinical psychologist. He is also chair of the Smith College Institutional Review Board (IRB). He has taught in the Smith School for Social Work since 2012. His areas of expertise include evidence based practice, psychological trauma, and psychophysiology of emotion. 

Outside of the college, he serves as an associate editor of Psychological Bulletin, a leading American Psychological Association (APA) journal and has recently served on the APA Clinical Practice Guideline Update Panel identifying treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that are best supported by rigorous research evidence.