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About Kelli

Kellina Craig-HendersonKellina M. Craig-Henderson is a social psychologist who graduated from Wesleyan University before earning a Master's degree in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Immediately following that she attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana and earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Psychology. She served on the faculty in the Department of Psychology as well as the Afro-American Studies and Research program at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. This was followed by an appointment in the Psychology Department of California State University in Long Beach. She subsequently moved to Howard University in Washington, DC. Dr. Craig-Henderson remains passionate about broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in science, and has been involved in a number of public and private-supported activities that share this focus.

Dr. Craig-Henderson is currently serving as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. She retains an affiliation with the Department of Psychology at Howard University where she was promoted to the rank of Full Professor shortly before joining the federal service to work with the NSF.

In addition to her books on interracial intimacy, Dr. Craig-Henderson has published a number of journal articles detailing results of her research and teaching. Her research includes studies of groups, cross-cultural gender and race stereotyping, and aggression. She has presented findings from her research activities at a variety of regional, national and international research and pedagogical meetings including though not limited to the following:

  • (2010, July). Intimate interracial relationships and IPV: An examination of attributions and judgments of blame. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Association for Relationships Research, Interdisciplinary Center, Herziliyah, Israel.

  • (2010, April). Black Women in Interracial Relationships: Personal identities and Cultural Stereotypes. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, Washington, DC.

  • (2008, May). A targeted group's reactions to hate crime: African American Responses. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, Illinois.

  • (2006, July). Hate on the Net: Bigotry ~ Computer Technology = Cyber Hate. Paper presented at the 6th Annual International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Monash University Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy.

  • (2006, March). Attitudes and empathy for victims: When observers have experience with domestic violence victims. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, Md.

  • (2006, March). African Americans' Use of and Adherence to Gender Role Stereotypes. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, Md.

  • Craig-Henderson, K.M. (2005, December). Shopping for interracial intimacy? A content analysis of African American men's personal advertisements. Cross Cultural Research Conference, El Dorado, Puerto Rico.

  • Wesley, L. & Craig-Henderson, K.M. (2005, September). Attributions of blame and victims of domestic violence: When she fights back Paper presented at the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.