Scholar In Residence
The Institute for the Study of Race and Culture (ISRC) is pleased to introduce the Scholar-in-Residence program designed to support the development of early career scholars. This virtual residency is designed to provide mentorship and support for an early career scholar who work focuses on psychological aspects of race, racism and racial trauma, disruption and elimination of racism, and anti-racist practice in mental health and education.
Virtual Scholar in Residence Program
We are excited to introduce our Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Jardin Dogan-Dixon
who has been appointed for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Dr. Jardin Dogan-Dixon
Licensed Psychologist • she/her
Dr. Jardin Dogan-Dixon is a licensed psychologist who currently works in a federal correctional setting. She graduated from the counseling psychology doctoral program at the University of Kentucky in 2022. Her intersectionality-informed research has a three- pronged focus: 1) Black identity, racial trauma, and mental health; 2) Black sexualities, sexual pleasure, and intimate relationships; and 3) drug and incarceration-related health disparities. The objective of her research agenda is to demonstrate how racial trauma can lead to adverse health outcomes, an overreliance on maladaptive coping strategies, and relationship dissolution that hinders powerful and protective community-building among Black populations. To date, Dr. Dogan-Dixon has published thirty-three (33) scholarly manuscripts, and her work has been supported by a predoctoral fellowship with the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), University of Kentucky Center for Health Equity, and Active Minds. She has a commitment to treating race-related stress and racial trauma via a multifaceted prevention and intervention approach of research, clinical practice, and community work. Thus, her clinical experiences have taken place in college counseling centers, racial trauma clinics, and criminal justice settings. She recently completed her predoctoral internship at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY. Moving beyond academic research paywalls, Dr. Dogan-Dixon facilitates mental health and racial trauma workshops for local communities and anti-racism trainings for national organizations. Her work has been featured in media news outlets including NBCLX, Women’s Health, Vice, Bustle, and PsyCom. Dr. Dogan-Dixon also created her Instagram platform @blkfolxtherapy to increase access to culturally-relevant mental health education and heighten the visibility of Black mental health professionals.
Ultimately, Dr. Dogan-Dixon has goals of reducing mental health barriers and stigmas, improving access to identity-affirming therapy, and providing Black Americans with tools to improve their mental, sexual, and relational well-being to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. In her spare time, Dr. Dogan-Dixon enjoys weightlifting, traveling, and calligraphy.
Dogan, J.N., Stevens-Watkins, D., & Hargons, C. (2023). “Don’t feel like youhave to do this all on your own”: Exploring perceived partner support of breastfeeding among Black women in Kentucky. Journal of Human Lactation.https://doi.org/10.1177/08903344221138101
Dogan, J. N., Stevens-Watkins, D., Miller-Roenigk, B., Mashburn, C., & Moody,M. (2022). Experiencing burnout: John Henryism, gender role conflict, andanxiety among incarcerated African American men. International Journal of Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221124841
Dogan, J.N., Thorpe, S., Malone, N., Jester, J., Stevens-Watkins, D., & Hargons,C. (2022) “My partner will think I’m weak or overthinking my pain”: How being Superwoman inhibits Black women’s sexual pain disclosure to their partners. Culture, Health, and Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2072956
Dogan, J. N., Rosenkrantz, D., Wheeler, P. B., & Hargons, C. N. (2021).Exploring identity and coping among Black viewers of Marvel Studios’ Black Panther. Psychology of Popular Media. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000359
Dogan, J., Thrasher, S.*, Thorpe, S., Hargons, C., & Stevens-Watkins, D. (2021). Cultural race-based stress and cannabis use among incarcerated African American men. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1037/adb0000694
Dogan, J., Stevens-Watkins, D., Knighton, J., Wheeler, P., & Hargons, C. (2020). Perceived need for drug treatment among African American male drug-using prisoners, Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsat.2020.108166
Dogan, J., Hargons, C., Meiller, C., Oluokon, J., Montique, C., & Malone, N.(2019). Catchin’ feelings: Experiences of intimacy during Black college students’ sexual encounters. Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, 5(2), 81-107. https://doi.org/10.1353/bsr.2018.0021
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Terrill O. Taylor
2022-2023 SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
Terrill O. Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling Psychology program at the University of North Dakota, and a predoctoral intern at the Counseling and Mental Health Center at the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of research focus on issues of race and racism, with specific emphasis on intersectionality, racial disparities in systems of justice, anti-Black racism, and restorative justice.
He developed the Restorative Justice Attitudes Scale, a measure designed to investigate individuals’ support for reconciliation and healing processes, which was published in The Counseling Psychologist. He has since used the measure to analyze how race and racism influence individuals’ decision-making when interfaced with systems of justice. It is his intent to develop intervention and prevention mechanisms that will have an impact on dismantling all forms of racism and oppression that restrict Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) from living authentic, healthy, and meaningful lives.
Terrill’s research has received national recognition. His dissertation entitled, Does Race Matter? An Experimental Vignette Study on Harm Severity, College Student Discipline, and Restorative Justice was selected as winner of the 2022 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation award on behalf of the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs. Terrill also received the APA Division 45 2022 Outstanding Student Research Award, and he was also the 2020 recipient of the Barbara Smith & Jewell E. Horvat Graduate Student Award for Research on Queer Individuals of Color. In addition, Terrill received an Outstanding Dedication to Social Justice and Liberation in Counseling Psychology Award from the Student Affiliates of Seventeen (APA Division 17). In his spare time, Terrill enjoys traveling and spending time with his friends and family.
Publications
Taylor, T. O., & Bailey, T.-K. M. (2022). Does race matter? An experimental vignette study on harm severity, college student discipline, and restorative justice. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000427
Taylor, T. O., & Bailey, T.-K. M. (2022). The Restorative Justice Attitudes Scale: Development and Initial Psychometric Evaluation. The Counseling Psychologist, 50(1), 6–39. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000211044485
Taylor, T. O., & Wilcox, M. M. (2021). Patriotism and perceptions of police: Examining the racial divide between Black and White Americans. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 7(4), 392–404. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000287
Taylor, T. O., Wilcox, M. M., & Monceaux, C. P. (2020). Race and sexual orientation: An intersectional analysis and confirmatory factor analysis of the Perceptions of Police Scale. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 7(3), 253–264. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000392
Wilcox, M. M., & Taylor, T. O. (2022). Ban the box: Addressing effects of systemic racism on justice-involved individuals in pathways to professional psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000407