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Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology department at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on the psychology of immigration and trauma, and culturally informed psychodynamic psychotherapy. Her research explores collective and interpersonal traumas faced by racial minority immigrants and subsequent generations, and sociocultural dynamics in the psychotherapeutic relationship that facilitate healing and growth. She is also interested in translating her research to support greater access to culturally informed clinical and community level interventions.

Professor Tummala-Narra is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association Books. Among her numerous awards and honors, she is among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).

She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. In addition to serving on several editorial boards of journals, she has served on various committees, boards, and task forces of the American Psychological Association (APA), such as the Presidential Task Force on Immigration, the Task Force on the Revision of the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists, and the Presidential Task Force on Trauma and Grief. Professor Tummala-Narra is also a member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, initiated by the American Psychoanalytic Association, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN).