Tyrone Forman is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a sociologist and a nationally recognized voice on intergroup prejudice and discrimination, comparative race and ethnic relations, American youth and public opinion, and survey research methods his scholarly interests focus on how discrimination and constrained opportunity shape the life experiences of racial and ethnic minorities as well as the sociocultural factors that influence intergroup relations and attitudes among youth and adults. Thus, a central part of Professor Forman's research has been to connect insights from social psychology -- specifically, the social structure and personality framework developed within sociological social psychology -- and race and ethnic relation to illuminate the patterns, antecedents, and consequences of racial and ethnic stratification in contemporary U.S. society. In exploring these issues, he has developed four main foci: (1) the changing nature and social consequences of intergroup prejudice and discrimination; (2) young whites' racial attitudes in the post-civil rights era; (3) intergroup relations among people of color; and (4) health and well-being of adults and adolescents. Taken together, this body of work not only makes important conceptual and substantive contributions but also sheds light on the new methodological strategies that social scientists must employ in order to more fully capture the complexity of race in contemporary U.S. society.

His work has appeared in a wide range of leading social science journals and has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the Fletcher Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.