Fellows

Christopher P. Salas-Wright, PhD

Active | Inducted in 2025

Bio

Christopher Salas-Wright, PhD, MSW, is the Barry Family Professor in Social Work and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the Boston College School of Social Work. His research focuses on the experiences of stress and resilience among Latin American crisis migrants and how these experiences influence mental health. Dr. Salas-Wright has led multiple NIH-funded studies on crisis migration. As part of these studies, he has been instrumental in developing the crisis-informed theory of cultural stress and the crisis migration experiences scale. Dr. Salas-Wright’s contributions have been recognized with several awards, including the Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Achievement Award and the National Award of Excellence in Research by a Senior Investigator from the National Hispanic Science Network. Dr. Salas-Wright is a standing member of NIH’s Social Psychology, Personality, and Interpersonal Processes Study Section and an editorial board member of the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Social Work.

Education

PhD, 2012, Boston College

MA, 2009, Boston College

MSW, 2009, University of Washington

BA, 2002, Santa Clara University