Marketa Burnett

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Human Development, Family Sciences

Educational Background

Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Developmental Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., Psychology; African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Professional Interests

Black Girls
Black Family Processes
Identity Development
Parental Socialization
STEM Persistence

Selected Publications

Burnett, M., Cooper, S.M., Butler-Barnes, S.T., & McCoy, W.N. (2023). Gendered racial stereotype endorsement: A theoretical review and implications for Black girls’ STEM identity. Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education. 2(3), 50-72. https://doi.org/10.21423/jaawge-v2i3a137

Burnett, M., McBride, M., Green, M.N. & Cooper, S.M. (2022). “When I think of Black girls, I think of opportunities”: Black girls’ identity development and the protective role of parental socialization in educational settings. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.933476

Cooper, S.M., Burnett, M., Golden, A., Butler-Barnes, S., & Inniss-Thompson, M. (2022). School discrimination, discipline inequities, and the adjustment of Black adolescent girls and boys: An intersectionality-informed approach. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(1),170-190. doi:10.1111/jora.12716

Burnett, M., Kurtz-Costes, B., Vuletich, H. A., & Rowley, S. J. (2020). The development of academic and non-academic race stereotypes in African American adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 56(9), 1750-1759. doi: 10.1037/dev0001071

Cooper, S.M., Burnett, M., Johnson, M., Brooks, J., Shaheed, J. & McBride, M. (2020).’That is why we raise children’: African American fathers’ race-related concerns for their adolescents and parenting strategies. Journal of Adolescence, 82, 67-81. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2020.06.001