Caitlin Mercier
Assistant Professor in WGSS/Psychology
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
PSY 390.047 Advanced Research Apprenticeship
WGS 393.001 Black Feminist Thought
WGS 493.001 Black Feminist Thought
PSY 123.001 Human Sexuality
PSY 305.001 Psychology Of Women
PSY 405.001 Psychology Of Women
PSY 290.047 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
PSY 123.001 Human Sexuality
PSY 305.001 Psychology Of Women
PSY 405.001 Psychology Of Women
PSY 290.047 Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship
Teaching Interests & Areas
Multiculturalism, social equity, antiracism and anticolorism
Research Interests & Areas
(Intersectional) experiences of veg*ns; consequences of stigma; minority stress, coping, and well-being of Black Americans/women; discrimination and mental health
Ph D Counseling Psychology
Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana
BS Psychological Science
Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Barbara A. Kirk Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research
Society of Counseling Psychology
2021
Grants and Contracts
New Faculty Initiative Grant
Caitlin Mercier
Illinois State University. July 2023 - June 2024
Journal Article
Coping Matters: An Examination of Black Americans’ Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic
Caitlin M Mercier, Dena M Abbott, & Michael Ternes
The Counseling Psychologist, 50 (3), 384-414, (2022)
(Non)Religious Coping with a Natural Disaster in Rural U.S. Community
Dena M Abbott, Andrew S. Franks, Corey Cook, & Caitlin Mercier
Secularism and Nonreligion, (2021)
Atheists of color: Experienced discrimination, outness, and psychological distress
Dena M Abbott, Michael Ternes, Caitlin Mercier, & Christopher Monceaux
(2020)
“Isn't atheism a White thing?”: Centering the voices of atheists of color.
Dena M. Abbott, Debra Mollen, Caitlin Mercier, Elyxcus J. Anaya, & Victoria A. Rukus
Journal of Counseling Psychology, 67 (3), 275-287, (2020), 10.1037/cou0000399
Cultural humility and the teaching of psychology
Dena M Abbott, Noelany Pelc, & Caitlin Mercier
(2019)
"Isn't atheism a White thing?": Centering the voices of atheists of color
Dena M Abbott, Debra Mollen, Caitlin Mercier, Elxycus A. Anaya, & Victoria A. Rukus
(2019)
Other
What's the Beef with Veg*ns: A Mixed Method Approach to Anti-Veg*n Stigmatization
Caitlin Mercier
Presentations
Skin tone matters: The intersectional stress of racism and colorism for Black women.
Caitlin Mercier, Naya Sutton, Antoinette Landor
2024 Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2024
Black Feminist Approaches to Anti-Black Racism and Speciesism
Caitlin Mercier
Animal Advocacy Conference, Cantebury, UK, June, 2023
More than Race: A Relational Cultural Approach to Colorism
Caitlin Mercier, Jaylen Bychownski
American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C., January, 2023