Nolan Krueger is a Ford fellow and counseling psych doctoral candidate working alongside Dr. Kevin Cokley. His research investigates Multiracial identity, and the various health effects of Multiracial-specific phenomena on both psychological well-being as well as behavioral health for Mixed-race individuals. His research also focuses on minority status stressors, and the psychosocial experiences impacting students of color in higher education.
Nolan is a psychologist in training providing serviced in both university and community-based settings. His expertise lies in strengths-based identity development (racial, sexual, gender, etc.) relational/interpersonal concerns, liberatory healing through critical resistance and radical hope, holistic career counseling, creativity, and decolonized praxis with a clinical approach guided by cultural humility and interpersonal/relational authenticity. He is currently placed as a doctoral intern at UC Berkeley's Counseling and Psychological Services, Berkeley, CA.
Nolan is active in both criminal legal as well as educational policy work, particularly as it affects Black and brown Americans at the local, regional, and state level. He has conducted research and analysis and helped craft policy briefings and reports for the Institute of Urban Policy Research and Analysis housed in UT's African and African Diaspora Studies Department. He also engages in prison abolition scholar-activism with an emphasis on higher education in correctional settings. While in Austin, he was involved in the Texas Prison Education Initiative where he taught UT-accredited coursework at Lockhart State Prison.
Areas of Expertise
- Multiracial identity development
- Distress and suicidality among Mixed-heritage and Multiracial youths
- Multiracial-specific forms of discrimination
- The Impostor Phenomenon among Black Americans in higher education and positions of power
- Sociopolitical Development among Black and brown youths
- Race-equity in education and criminal justice
Kevin O Cokley (Supervisor)
Researches themes related to understanding the psychological and environmental factors that impact African American student achievement, and the impact of the impostor phenomenon in academic and mental health outcomes.
Kevin Cokley is not currently accepting new graduate students for the 2022-23 Academic Year.
Franco, M., Holmes, O., Swafford, F., Krueger, N. & Rice, K. (2019). Black People's Racial Identity and Their Acceptance of Black-White Multiracial people. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 1–15. doi:10.1177/1368430218820957.
Stone, S., Bailey, M., Garba, R., Hurst, A., Jackson, S. & Krueger, N. (2018). Learning While Black: A Culturally Informed Model of the Impostor Phenomenon for Black Graduate Students.. Journal of Black Psychology, 1–41. doi:10.1177/0095798418786648.
Cokley, K., Stone, S., Krueger, N., Bailey, M., Garba, R. & Hurst, A. (2018). Self-esteem as a mediator of the link between perfectionism and the impostor phenomenon.. Personality and Individual Differences, 135, 292–297. (View)
Hurst, A., Bailey, M., Krueger, N., Garba, R. & Cokley, K. (2017). The Psychological Impact of Policing on African American Students. Law Enforcement in the Age of Black Lives Matter: Policing Black and Brown Bodies (pp. 53–73). Lanham: Lexington Books. (View)
Ford Fellowship, Ford Foundation (2019)
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