Robert T. Carter, PhD
Robert T. Carter, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He works as an expert witness and consultant in legal cases involving the stressful and traumatic effects of racism and racial discrimination. He taught many courses during his 25 plus years as a Professor.
Among them were graduate-level classes in: Race and Racial identity in Psychology and Education, The Racial-Cultural Counseling, and Multicultural Psychology.
His research and scholarship focus are on issues of race and culture. He is known internationally for his work on race, culture, and racial identity ego statuses.
He has applied analyses of race, racial identity, and culture, to psychotherapy, forensic issues, organizational development, mental health disparities, and educational equity.
He has authored 128 peer-reviewed articles and 9 books. His most notable books are:
• The influence of race and racial identity in the psychotherapy process, (1995): Wiley. – Racial identity development theory: Applications to individual, group and organizations. (With Thompson, 2013, Routledge).
• He edited a two-volume reference set in 2005 Handbook of racial- cultural psychology and counseling: Theory and research (Vol. 1), and Training and practice (Vol. 2), John Wiley.
• More recently; Carter and Scheuermann, (2020). Confronting Racism, (Routledge); and
• Carter and Pieterse (2020) Measuring the Effects of Racism (Columbia University Press).
• He has served as Editor of the American Psychological Associations’ Journal “The Counseling Psychologist”
He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association’s Divisions 17 and 45 and has received several national awards.
Education
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
Ph.D. Counseling Psychology,(APA approved), 1987
UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY
B.S., Major, Year
Selected Honors & Awards
Robert T. Carter Fellowship, an endowment for $250,000:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2018/september/giving-the-gift-of-racial-awareness/
2004-2005 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at large fellow
Project Title: “Integrating psychological models and research on race and trauma with legal policy and litigation”
IRA Glasser Racial Justice Fellowship
Fellow, Division of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological Association. (1997).
Awarded by the American Psychological Association in recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions to the science and profession of psychology.
Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) of the American Psychological Association. (1997).
Awarded by the American Psychological Association in recognition of outstanding and contributions to the advancement of ethnic minority issues in psychology.