Dr. Cokley's research can be broadly categorized in the area of African American psychology, with a focus on racial and ethnic identity development, academic motivation and academic achievement. A theme of much of his research is understanding the psychological and environmental factors that impact African American student achievement. Dr. Cokley's research and scholarship have led him to challenge the notion that African American students are anti-intellectual, and to critically re-examine the impact of racial and ethnic identity and gender on academic achievement. Recently Dr. Cokley has started exploring the impostor phenomenon and its relationship to mental health and academic outcomes among ethnic minority students.
Dr. Cokley's publications have appeared in professional journals such as the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Journal of Black Psychology, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, the Journal of College Student Development, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Educational and Psychological Measurement, and the Harvard Educational Review.
Dr. Cokley has a joint appointment in the College of Education's Department of Educational Psychology and the College of Liberal Arts' Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology and the Director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis.
He has written several Op-Eds in major media outlets including the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express, The American Prospect, The Huffington Post, The Conversation and The Hill on topics such as Blacks' rational mistrust of police, police shootings of Blacks, the aftermath of Ferguson, the use of school vouchers, racial disparities in school discipline, and Black students' graduation rates.
B.A. in Wake Forest University, Psychology, 1991
M.S.Ed. in Counselor Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1993
Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, Georgia State University, 1998
Dr. Kevin Cokley's research is in the area of African American psychology, with particular interest in the roles of racial and ethnic identity and academic self-concept in the academic achievement of African American students. More recently he has been examining the impact of the impostor phenomenon in academic and mental health outcomes, especially among ethnic minority students and women. Broadly, Dr. Cokley considers racial and ethnic identity development, academic motivation, multicultural psychology and issues of race, ethnicity and culture.
Cokely, K. (2015). A confirmatory factor analysis of the Academic Motivation Scale with Black college students.. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 48(2), 124–139. doi:10.1177/0748175614563316.
Cokley, K. (2014). The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students.: Praeger Publishers.
Cokley, K., Awosogba, O. & Taylor, D. (2014). A 12-year content analysis of the Journal of Black Psychology (2000-2011): Implications for the field of Black psychology.. Journal of Black Psychology, 40(3), 215–238.
Cokley, K. & Awad, G. (2013). In defense of quantitative methods: Using the "Master's Tools" to promote social justice.. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 5(2), 26–41.
Cokley, K., McClain, S., Enciso, A. & Martinez, M. (2013). An examination of minority status stress, impostor feelings and mental health among ethnic minority college students.. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 41(2), 82–95.
Cokley, K., Garcia, D., Tran, K., Hall, B. & Rangel, A. (2012). The moderating role of ethnicity in the relationship between religiousness and mental health among ethnically diverse college students.. Journal of Religion and Health, 51(3), 890–907.
Regents' Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Texas at Austin (2014)
Fellow, Chair in African and African Diaspora Studies (2013)
Louis Spence Griffeth Fellowship for Excellence, University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Elizabeth Glenadine Gibb Teaching Fellowship in Education, University of Texas at Austin (2012)
Fellow, American Psychological Association Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) (2011)
Fellow, American Psychological Association Division 45 (Cultural, Ethnicity, & Race) (2011)
| Year | Semester | Course |
|---|
| 2015 | Fall | EDP 384C: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2015 | Spring | EDP 384: Issues In Multicul Research |
| 2015 | Spring | EDP 362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2014 | Fall | EDP 384: Issues In Multicul Research |
| 2014 | Fall | EDP 381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2014 | Summer | EDP S381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2014 | Spring | EDP 362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2014 | Spring | EDP 362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2014 | Spring | EDP 381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2013 | Fall | EDP 384: Issues In Multicul Research |
| 2013 | Summer | EDP F381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2013 | Spring | EDP 381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2013 | Spring | EDP 362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2012 | Summer | EDP F362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2012 | Summer | EDP S381: Multicultural Counseling |
| 2012 | Spring | EDP 362: Psychol Of Afr Amer Experience |
| 2012 | Spring | EDP 384: Issues In Multicul Research |
