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Kaleb Lauren Briscoe
Assistant Professor of Higher Education Leadership
Mississippi State University
Education/Degree:
1 Educational Leadership and Higher Education (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
About
Kaleb L. Briscoe, PhD, is an assistant professor in higher education leadership in the department of educational leadership at Mississippi State University. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in educational studies with a concentration in educational leadership and higher education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She holds a Master of Science in student affairs and higher education from Indiana State University and a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing from Albany State University. Before completing her PhD program, she served as the Associate Director of Student Life at the University of Houston-Victoria, where she supervised a team of student leaders and new professionals. Dr. Briscoe was awarded the ACPA College Student Educators International Commission for Student Involvement Outstanding Service Award and launched the Commission's first-ever Mentorship Program.
Current Work
Dr. Briscoe’s research problematizes oppressed and marginalized populations within higher education through critical theoretical frameworks and qualitative methodological approaches. Through her scholarship on campus racial climate, she seeks to disrupt whiteness and white supremacy on predominantly white campuses. Her research shapes administrators, specifically university presidents' responses to race and racism, by challenging their use of anti-Blackness and non-performative rhetoric. Dr. Briscoe’s work has been published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, and Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, to name a few. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) and ACPA College Student Educators International.
Research Area Keyword(s)
anti-Blackness rhetoric, Black graduate students, campus racial climate, higher education, university presidents