Dr. Javier Casado Pérez

Javier F. Casado Pérez, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Education, Counselor Education Doctoral Program Co-Coordinator, and Research Associate with the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State, University Park. They were elected to the 2024 – 2027 Penn State Faculty Senate. Dr. Casado Pérez’s research interests include racial trauma-informed gender-affirming care, adolescent and emerging adult mental health literacy, equity, and justice, multiply minoritized faculty institutional life, and critical qualitative methodologies. They have published on critical and pragmatic research design, critical in-depth phenomenology of everyday resistance to institutional oppression, and identifying strategies for academic survival using critical hermeneutic analysis. Dr. Casado Pérez current projects include the critical mixed-method study of high school counselors’ mental health literacy building behaviors, supported by the 2024 King Family Impact Endowment; mixed-methodology comparing sense of belonging among faculty of Color at predominantly white institutions and historically Black colleges and universities; and equity-minded critical discourse analysis of counselor education curriculum. 

Dr. Casado Pérez was selected for the 2023 – 2024 College of Education Equity Fellowship. They serve as Co-Editor of the Teaching Practice Briefs, a publication of the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, and CounseLion, the Penn State Counselor Education Newsletter. Dr. Casado Pérez sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (2017 – Present), Journal of Specialists in Group Work (2017 – Present), and Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association (2015 – Present). They have appeared on The Thoughtful Counselor, Oregon State University’s Counseling Research and Leadership Lab, and The Leading Equity Summit.

Dr. Casado Pérez teaches CNED 589 Seminar on Counseling Supervision and CNED 595D Supervision of Counselors.