Department: Gateway to Belonging at OU and Psychology
Email: acartersowell@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-1589
Office Location: Lissa & Cy Wagner Hall, Room 272
Education: BA, Social Psychology and Rhetoric/Communications Studies, University of Virginia; MS, Social Psychology, Purdue University; and Ph.D., Social Psychology, Purdue University.
Courses Taught: UCOL 1523 Gateway to Belonging at OU, PSY 3703 Social Psychology
Department Websites: https://www.ou.edu/univcoll/about/courses_for_freshmen/Gateway-to-Belonging-at-OU and https://www.ou.edu/cas/psychology
About Dr. Carter-Sowell:
Adrienne R. Carter-Sowell, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and the inaugural, Gateway to Belonging at OU (UCOL 1523) Program Director at The University of Oklahoma. She has created a range of undergraduate and graduate level courses in her academic career. Most courses represent cross-listed classes to fulfill requirements for students to earn certificates, degrees, and/or general education credits. Multiple classes were prepared as gateway courses with restricted enrollments and/or provisional admission criteria.
Professor Carter-Sowell is a Social Psychologist with a research focus on individual differences among intersectional identities with the goal of reducing mistreatment of persons with those identities. She leads a program of research to address the costs of being “socially and/or professionally invisible.”
Dr. Carter-Sowell earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Dr. Carter-Sowell is an expert scholar and her approach to social exclusion aims to theorize and document the nature and impact of perceived ostracism in multiple groups, with particular emphasis on marginalized groups.
Recent Publications
Zimmerman, C. A., Ganesan, A., & Carter-Sowell, A. R., (2021). Confrontation as an interpersonal response to ostracism. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2749
Gruber, J., Mendle, J., Lindquist, K. A., Schmader, T., Clark, L. A., Bliss-Moreau, E., Akinola, M., Atlas, L., Barch, D. M., Barrett, L. F., Borelli, J. L., Brannon, T. N., Bunge, S. A., Campos, B., Cantlon, J., Carter, R., Carter-Sowell, A. R., Chen, S., Craske, M. G., Cuddy, A., et al. (2020). The Future of women in psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620952789
Carter-Sowell, A. R., Vaid, J., Stanley, C., Petit, B., & Yennello, S. (2019). Bloom where you are planted: Reflections on effecting campus climate change to retain minoritized faculty scholars in STEM fields.In L. L. Winfield, Z., G. Thomas, L. M. Watkins, & Z. S. Wilson-Kennedy (Eds.). Growing Diverse Communities: Methodology, Impact, and Evidence (pp. 197-214). Washington, D. C.: The American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/bk-2019-1328.ch013
