Dr. Javier Casado Pérez

Javier F. Casado Pérez, PhD NCC is Assistant Professor of Education and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Higher Education. Their scholarly interests include institutional life and academic survival of minoritized faculty, cultural ruptures and repair in intercultural romantic relationship counseling, the mental health literacy of emerging adults, and critical research methodologies. Their current projects include a comparative analysis of belonging and mattering among faculty of Color and critical phenomenology of faculty bystander intervention on workplace bias; community-engaged scholarship with intercultural romantic relationships and their providers; and the study of school counselors’ mental health literacy building behaviors with youth of Color (supported by the 2024 King Family Impact Endowment). They serve as Co-Editor of the CounseLion, the Penn State Counselor Education Student-Produced Newsletter and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (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 currently teaches CNED 506 Individual Counseling Procedures, CNED 530 Relationship and Family Counseling, CNED 589 Seminar on Counseling Supervision, CNED 595D Supervision of Counselors, and CNED 595I Doctoral Internship. They serve as Doctoral Program Degree Coordinator, Doctoral Internship Coordinator, and Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education Faculty Senator. For inquiries or correspondence, please contact them by email at [email protected].