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Biography

Faculty Member Since 2015

Danielle Dickens is an Associate Professor of Psychology.

Danielle Dickens, Ph.D., joined the department of psychology as an assistant professor in 2015. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, and her master’s and doctorate degrees in applied social and health psychology from Colorado State University. Dr. Dickens uses an interdisciplinary approach and pulls together her knowledge and experience as an instructor and mentor around issues of race/ethnicity, gender, age, and class in higher education and the workplace.

As a Black feminist social psychologist, her research focuses on the identity development and identity formation of Black women and how they navigate the world. She utilizes qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine the intersection of multiple identities, specifically race, gender, age, and class identities, with an emphasis on Black women, work, higher education and STEM.

Dr. Dickens is most interested in examining how members of underrepresented groups (e.g., Black women) experience discrimination, the utilization of identity shifting as a coping strategy, and the benefits and costs of identity shifting on Black women’s physical and mental health. In her second line of research, she examines the social-psychological determinants of academic and career development of Black women.

Awards & Grants

Recipient of the 2024 Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Tenured Faculty Member at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½

Recipient of the 2023 Women of Color Initiative Outstanding Faculty Impact

Award Recipient of the 2020 APA Division 35 Section 01 Psychology of Black Women: Foremothers Mentorship Early Career Award 

Recipient of the 2019 APA Division 35 Psychology of Women: Mary Roth Walsh Teaching the Psychology of Women Award

National Science Foundation Center Grant: HBCU STEM Undergraduate Success (STEM-US) Research Center (Grant Awarded: $9 million) My Role: Co-PI (2020-2026)

National Science Foundation EiR Grant- Navigating the Double Bind: Assessing the Development and Contribution of Identity Shifting to the Recruitment & Retention of Black Women in STEM Education. My Role: PI (2018-2021)

Featured on the Society for Teaching of Psychology (STP)’s “” Blog (2018)

American Psychological Foundation & Funding Individual Spiritual Health Visionary Grant to Decrease Ethnic and Racial Discrimination in Education. My Role: PI (2016-2017)

RISEing Star Alumnae Award, ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ RISE (Research Initiative Scientific Enhancement) Program (2014-2015)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Graduate Fellowship, Colorado State University (2013-2014)

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• Ph.D., M.S., Colorado State University

• B.A., ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½

Courses Taught

PSY 206: Psychology of Women

PSY 347: Psychology of Racism

PSY 409: Competing Selves: Behavioral and Psychological Consequences of Negotiating Identities (Research Seminar)

PSY 305: Research Methods

PSY 222: Pathways in Psychology

PSY 409: Myths, Stereotypes, and Realities of Career Oriented Black Women (Research Seminar)

PSY 480: Senior Portfolio & Critical Review

Research Interests

Intersectionality of social identities

Underrepresentation in STEM

Benefits and costs of identity shifting among Black women

Psychology of stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination, and intergroup processes

Academic and career development of Black women

Psychosociocultural influences on health behaviors

Select Publications

Textbook

Dickens, D. & Stephens, D. (2024). . Rowman & Littlefield.

Articles and Book Chapters

Hall, N., Dickens, D., Minor, K., Thomas, Z. & Mitchell, C. (2025). The strong Black woman stereotype and identity shifting among Black women in academic and other professional spaces. Women’s Health.

Dickens, D., Taylor, V., & Holly, R. (2025). . Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 5(1), 25-41.

Hall, N., Jones, J., & Dickens, D. (2025). . Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 5(1), 83-107.

Hall, N., Watson Singleton, N., & Dickens, D. (2025). .

Dickens, D. D., Cabirou, L., Womack, V., Farmer, M., & Johnson, N. (2024). . Eating Behaviors.

Dickens, D. & Hall, N. M. (2024). . In Gender Resilience, Integration and Transformation. Springer Nature.

Hall, N.M., Dickens, D.D., & Guillaume, C. (2023). . Journal of Negro Education 92(1), 54-65.

Dickens, D. D., & Stephens, D. P. (2023). . Journal of Black Psychology, 49(6), 747-757.

Dickens, D., Hall, N., Farmer, M. & Johnson, N. (2023). . Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 3(1), 10-30

Dickens, D., Hall, N., Watson-Singleton, N., Mitchell, C., & Thomas, Z. (2022). . Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(3), 337-353.

Jones, M., Womack, V., Jérémie-Brink, G., & Dickens, D. (2021). . Sex Roles, 85(3), 221-231.     

Hall-Byers, N., Dickens, D., Lee. A., Corneille, M, Younge, S. (2020). The influence of gendered racial identity centrality on gendered racism and identity shifting among black undergraduate women at a HBCU. In (Eds.), Colorism: Investigating a Global Phenomenon. 

Dickens, D. & Womack, V. (2020). Unapologetic Millennial Black Women: Authenticity at work as form of resistance. In K. Thomas (Eds.), Diversity and Resistance. 

Dickens, D. & Chavez, E. (2018). , Sex Roles,78(11-12), 760-774.

Brief Reports

Dickens, D., Whitfield, M. (2022). Pay Inequities among Black Women: The Role of Race and Gender in Salary Negotiation. Urban Institute. 

Pay Inequities Among Black Women

News & Notes

Dr. Danielle Dickens Recognized for Her Innovative Teaching Practice

Dickens Joins Psychology Association's Tour "I am Psyched"

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Professor and Alumna Publishes First of its Kind Textbook Addressing Black Womanhood