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| 26. | Mills, K. J., Reyes, H.L., Middleton, T, Wynne, T., & Quaye, S.J. (in press). Reducing racial battle fatigue to foster success among Black students. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, & Practice. |
| 25. | Mills, K. J., Reyes, H.L., & Waller. T. (2026). Racial battle fatigue among Black undergraduates: Examining the role of general, academic, and racial campus climates. The Journal of Higher Education, 1-30. Advanced online publication https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2026.2623814 |
| 24. | Stone-Sabali-, S., Mills, K.J., alexander, e., Devese, K., Tippit, M., Makari, S., & Jonet Mitchel., A. (2026). On repairing racial ruptures after racial microaggressions: A mixed methods study with Black graduate students. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000851 |
| 23. | Mills. K. J., Quaye, S.J., McKinney, N.J., Jones, H.V., Allen-Stills, N. (2025). Investigating racial battle fatigue among Black college students using photo-elicitation methodology. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 62(4), 391-405. https://doi.org/10.1080/19496591.2024.2420127 |
| 22. | Mills. K. J., Quaye, S.J., McKinney, N.J., Jones, H.V., Allen-Stills, N. C., & Reyes, H.L. (2025). How racial battle fatigue impacts Black women graduate students: A photo-elicitation study. Equity & Excellence in Education, 58(2), 107-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2025.2452577 |
| 21. | Collins-Warfield, A.E., Niewoehner-Green, J.E., Scheer, S.D, & Mills, K. J. (2025). Student-Ready Critical Care Pedagogy: An Empowering Approach for Struggling Students. Teaching in Higher Education, 20(2), 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2023.2249401 |
| 20. | Stone-Sabali, S., Mallory, A., Mills, K. J., & alexander, e. (2025). On racial allyship and constructing a racial allyship framework: Black graduate STEM students’ insights and recommendations for aspiring faculty allies. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 18(3), 327–340. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000510 |
| 19. | Quaye, S.J., Mills. K.J., Jones, H.V., Allen-Stills, N. and McKinney, N.J.*, (2024). Black Researchers Studying Racial Battle Fatigue among Black Students. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241291776 |
| 18. | Stone-Sabali, S.,Mills, K. J., & Mallory, A. & alexander, e. (2024). Black Lives Matter and Other Signs of Solidarity: Perspectives from Black STEM Graduate Students. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21896 |
| 17. | Reyes, H.L, Mills, K. J., Cadet, D., & Johnson, D (2024). Latina and Black women collegians’ paternal relationships: A Chicana and Black feminist interpretive phenomenological analysis. Education Sciences, 14(7), 749. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14070749 |
| 16. | Stone-Sabali, S., Bernard, D. L., Mills, K. J., & Osborn, P. R. (2023). Mapping the evolution of the impostor phenomenon research: A bibliometric analysis. Current Psychology, 42(36), 32097 – 32109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04201-9 |
| 15. | Collins-Warfield, A.E., Niewoehner-Green, J.E., Scheer, S.D, & Mills, K. J. (2023). Views of struggling students from historically excluded groups on academic success and instructor support. Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2(4) 53-82. https://doi.org/10.33009/fsop_jpss132518 |
| 14. | Mills, K. J., Stone-Sabali. S., & Parler, B.A.*(2023). Responding to racial microaggressions: Resilience among Black undergraduate students. Journal of College Student Development, 64(6), 630-646. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2023.a917020 |
| 13. | Mills, K. J. (2021). Black students’ perceptions of campus climates and the effect on academic resilience. Journal of Black Psychology, 47(4-5) 354-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/00957984211001195 |
| 12. | Mills, K. J. (2020). “It’s Systemic”: Environmental racial microaggressions experienced by Black undergraduates at a predominantly white institution. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. 13(1), 44-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000121 |
| 11. | Mills, K. J., Lawlor, J. A., Neal, J. W., Neal, Z. P., & McAlindon, K. (2020). What is research? Educators’ conceptions and alignment with U.S. federal policy. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 16(3), 337-358. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426419X15468576296175 |
| 10. | Neal, J. W., Neal, Z. P., Mills, K. J., Lawlor, J. A., & McAlindon, K. (2019). What types of brokerage bridge the research-practice gap? The case of public school educators. Social Networks, 59, 41-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.05.006 |
| 9. | Lawlor, J., Mills, K. J., Neal, Z., Neal, J. W., Wilson, C., & McAlindon, K. (2019). Approaches to measuring use of research evidence in K-12 settings: A systematic review. Educational Research Review, 27, 218-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2019.04.002 |
| 8. | Neal, J. W., Mills, K. J., McAlindon, K., Neal, Z. P., & Lawlor, J. A. (2019). Multiple audiences for encouraging research use: Uncovering a typology of educators. Educational Administration Quarterly, 55(1), 154-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013161X18785867 |
| 7. | McAlindon, K., Neal, J. W., Neal, Z. P., Mills, K. J., & Lawlor, J. (2019). The BOND Framework: A practical application of visual communication design and marketing to advance evaluation reporting. American Journal of Evaluation, 40(2), 291-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214018771219 |
| 6. | Neal, Z. P., Lawlor, J. A., Neal, J. W., Mills, K. J., & McAlindon, K. (2019). Just Google it: Measuring schools’ use of research evidence with internet search results. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 15 (1), 103–23. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426418X15172392413087 |
| 5. | Neal, Z. P., Neal, J. W., Mills, K. J., & Lawlor, J. A. (2018). Making or buying evidence: Using transaction cost economics to understand decision making in public school districts. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 14(4), 707 – 724. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426416X14778277473701 |
| 4. | Neal, J. W., Neal, Z. P., Lawlor, J. A., Mills, K. J., & McAlindon, K. (2018). What makes research useful for public school educators?. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 45 (3), 432-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-017-0834-x |
| 3. | Neal, Z. P., Neal, J. W., Lawlor, J. A., & Mills, K. J. (2015). Small worlds or worlds apart? Using network theory to understand the research-practice gap. Psychosocial Intervention, 24(3), 177-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-017-0834-x |
| 2. | Neal, J. W., Neal, Z. P., Kornbluh, M., Mills, K. J., & Lawlor, J. A. (2015). Brokering the research–practice gap: A typology. American journal of community psychology, 56(3-4), 422-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-015-9745-8 |
| 1. | Horodynski, M., & Mills, K. J. (2014). The voice of low income mothers on infant feeding. Journal of Extension [On-line], 52(6), Article 6RIB5. Available at https://www.joe.org/joe/2014december/rb5.php |
