Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Adult and Higher Education
Email: kbriscoe@ou.edu
Office: Collings Hall
Kaleb L. Briscoe, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she joined the faculty in August 2023. She previously served as an assistant professor of Higher Education Leadership at Mississippi State University.
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 and hate crimes, 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 research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation, NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, ACPA–College Student Educators International, and National Association for Campus Activities Foundation. Dr. Briscoe’s work has been published in the Journal of Higher Education, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of Negro Education, and Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice.
A scholar-practitioner, Dr. Briscoe previously held roles in student involvement, financial aid, and enrollment management. She is an active member of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, and ACPA–College Student Educators International. Dr. Briscoe is a 2023-2025 ACPA Emerging Scholar-Designee and a 2023-2024 University of California Fellow for the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement.
Dr. Briscoe is a proud alum of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she received her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Higher Education. She was recently awarded by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln the Alumni Master award, the highest distinction awarded through the Nebraska Alumni Association and Chancellor’s Office.
