Nathan R. Todd
603 East Daniel Street
Champaign, IL 61820
ntodd2@illinois.edu
Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Defended: December 2009
Expected Graduation: May 2010
MA Psychology: Fuller Theological Seminary
MA Theology: Fuller Theological Seminary
BA Psychology: University of Oklahoma
My research examines contextual factors that influence individual and group engagement with social justice. In particular, in my developing program of research, I examine how religious settings (e.g., religious congregations, religious interfaith groups) and Whiteness influence engagement in social justice with specific attention given to multiple levels of analysis (e.g., individuals and settings). Moreover, my quantitative and qualitative methodological strengths enable me to use multiple methods to examine context as part of my program of research.
Hess, J. A., & Todd, N. R. (2009). From culture war to difficult dialogue: Exploring distinct frames for citizen exchange about social problems. Journal of Public Deliberation, 5, Link.
Spanierman, L. B., Todd, N. R., & Anderson, C. J. (2009). Psychosocial costs of racism to Whites: Understanding patterns among university students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56, 239-252. Link.
Spanierman, L. B., Todd, N. R., & Neville, H. A. (2006). Psychology. In T. Engles (Ed.), Toward a bibliography of critical whiteness studies (pp. 65-90). Urbana, IL: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. Link.
Aber, M. S., Todd, N. R., Rasmussen, A., Meinrath, S., & Mattison, E. Measuring school racial equity climate.
Hess, J. Z., Allen, N. E., & Todd, N. R. Interpreting community accountability: Citizen views of responding to domestic violence (or not).
Javdani, S., Allen, N. E., Todd, N. R., & Rana, S. (in preparation). Examining systems change in the response to domestic violence: Innovative applications of multilevel modeling.
Todd, N. R. Community psychology and liberation theologies: Commonalities, collaboration, dilemmas.
Todd, N. R. Religious conservatives, homonegative attitudes, and unwarranted conclusions: Rethinking Rosik 2007.
Todd, N. R., & Abrams, E. M. White dialectics.
Todd, N. R., Spanierman, L. B., & Aber, M. S. White students reflecting on Whiteness: Understanding emotional responses.
Allen, N. E., Todd, N. R., Anderson, C. J., & Davis, S. M. (in preparation). Council-based approaches to intimate partner violence: Evidence of distal change in the systems response.
Neville, H. A., Yeung, J. G., Todd, N. R., Spanierman, L. B., & Reed, T. (in preparation). The association between color-blind racial ideology and perceptions of a racialized University symbol.
Todd, N. R. (in preparation). Religious congregations as mediating structures for social justice: A multilevel examination.
Todd, N. R., Allen, N. E., & Javdani, S. (in preparation). Multilevel modeling: Method and applications for the field of community psychology. In L. A. Jason & D. S. Glenwick (Eds.), Innovative Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Theory and Application.
See Vita for additional manuscripts in preparation and presentations at professional conferences.
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