Matt Diemer
Professor of Education, Marsal Family School of Education, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
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Research interests include how young people overcome racial, ethnic, socioeconomic and other constraints in school, college, work, and civic/ political institutions. He is particularly interested in how marginalized people develop critical consciousness, which is a careful analysis of societal inequalities, the motivation to produce social change, and participation in social or political action. His recent work details guiding principles for Critical Quantitative (CritQuant) methodology.
- Amy Hillier , Nadia Dowshen , Matt Diemer, Steven C. Marcus . 2025. Acceptability of Screening for Gender Identity in a National Sample of Parents with Young Children. Transgender Health 10(3)
- Matt Diemer, Amy Hillier, Steven C. Marcus. 2025. Preliminary development of a brief parent-report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 43(2):440-455.
- Andres Pinedo, Gabrielle Kubi, Aber John Espinoza, Johnny Gonzalez, Matt Diemer. 2025. Ethnic Studies and Student Development: Cultivating Racially Marginalized Adolescents’ Critical Consciousness. Developmental Psychology 61(1):113-133.
- Matt Diemer, Frisby, Michael B, House, Kelly M. 2025. Looking backward to look forward: Tracing critical quantitative perspectives in critical consciousness research. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 64:101536.
- Medina, Michael A., Mathews, Channing J., de los Reyes, Wendy, Singh, Anshita, Matt Diemer, Durand, Tina M.. 2025. Anti-racist methodological approaches to ethnic-racial identity and critical consciousness scholarship. Journal of School Psychology 113:101493.
- Matt Diemer, Maisha T. Winn, Lawrence T. Winn, Wendy de los Reyes,, Gabrielle Kubi, Thomas M. Philip. 2025. Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale: Assessing Teachers' Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education. AERA Open
- Andres Pinedo, Matt Diemer, Michael B. Frisby. 2024. Critical Consciousness and Youth Political Activism. 6
- Aixa D. Marchand, Matt Diemer, Stephanie J. Rowley. 2024. Measuring critical parent engagement: the development and validation of the black parent measure of critical consciousness in education. Research in Human Development
- Diemer, Matt, Heinze, Justin E., Moore, Stephanie S, Schmidt, Carissa J, Zimmerman, Marc A. 2019. College Status and Trajectories of Perceived Leadership Ability Among Emerging Adults. Emerging Adulthood 7(6):478-489.
- Diemer, Matt, Marchand, Aixa D., Mathews, Channing J, Medina, Michael A, Bañales, Josefina , Pinetta, Bernardette J, Agi, Abunya C, Miller, Stephanie M, Hoffman, Adam J, Rivas-Drake, Deborah . 2019. Mapping the Intersections of Adolescents' Ethnic-Racial Identity and Critical Consciousness. Adolescent Research Review