Sherry C. Wang, Ph.D.
Sherry C. Wang Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; and Associate Professor
Santa Clara University
School of Education and Counseling Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Guadalupe Hall
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0201
Email: [email protected]
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; and Associate Professor
Santa Clara University
School of Education and Counseling Psychology
500 El Camino Real
Guadalupe Hall
Santa Clara, CA 95053-0201
Email: [email protected]
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hello! I am an Associate Professor in the Counseling Psychology Department at Santa Clara University. I am also the Associate Dean of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the School of Education and Counseling Psychology.
I earned my B.A. in Psychology from Smith College, and received my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I completed my doctoral internship at the University of Illinois-Chicago Counseling Center, where I had a rotation opportunity at the Marjorie Kovler Center working with survivors of political torture. In my early years, I was an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, and that was where I expanded my work from immigrant and refugee groups to the healthcare needs and experiences of of African Americans in the Deep South.
My scholarship is rooted in advocating for the voices of underrepresented groups (e.g., BIPOC, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ populations). Whenever possible, I draw from my bilingual and bicultural background as a Taiwanese American. My research focuses on the ways in which sociocultural determinants (e.g., access to healthcare services, social support and community attitudes) contribute to health disparities (e.g., poor health and economic outcomes) for already-marginalized communities. To better understand the role of context, such as through policies and cultural norms, I utilize quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to conduct culturally-sensitive research with diverse populations.
I identify as an anti-racist educator and I teach graduate courses in multicultural counseling, developmental psychology, microskills in counseling, counseling theories, and gender and counseling. I am also a licensed and practicing psychologist. I devote one day per week to my consulting and clinical practice. My theoretical orientation is an integrated approach comprised of interpersonal process with multicultural and feminist theories.
In terms of my professional homes, I have been mentored from the APA Minority Fellowship Program all throughout my graduate training. I was also HA-STTP fellow at UCLA after graduating, followed by being a Visiting Professor in the USCF Center for Prevention Training Program. In 2015, I was recognized as an early career Rising Star at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. In 2021, I was awarded with the Distinguished Pioneer Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women (Div 35) Section 5 (Asian Pacific American women). In 2023, I was awarded the Early Career Social Justice Award from the Society for Counseling Psychology (Division 17). I am truly blessed to come from professional homes that have supported, uplifted, and encouraged me to continue to do important work for our communities.
As for my service to the profession, I sit on the APA Council of Representatives which is the legislative body of APA. I represent Division 45 (2023-2025; 2026-2029) and am continuing my second 3-year term. Before this, I was member of and also chair of APA's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (2019-2021; chair in 2021). I was also treasurer for the Division 35 Section 5 Psychology of Asian Pacific American Women. In the last few years, I have chaired the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) Division on Women (DOW).
Since the COVID19 pandemic, I have become increasingly active in speaking on the topic of anti-Asian racism, anti-blackness, and radical healing for collective healing and liberation. If you are interested in learning more, the links to my media work are available!
I earned my B.A. in Psychology from Smith College, and received my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I completed my doctoral internship at the University of Illinois-Chicago Counseling Center, where I had a rotation opportunity at the Marjorie Kovler Center working with survivors of political torture. In my early years, I was an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, and that was where I expanded my work from immigrant and refugee groups to the healthcare needs and experiences of of African Americans in the Deep South.
My scholarship is rooted in advocating for the voices of underrepresented groups (e.g., BIPOC, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ populations). Whenever possible, I draw from my bilingual and bicultural background as a Taiwanese American. My research focuses on the ways in which sociocultural determinants (e.g., access to healthcare services, social support and community attitudes) contribute to health disparities (e.g., poor health and economic outcomes) for already-marginalized communities. To better understand the role of context, such as through policies and cultural norms, I utilize quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods to conduct culturally-sensitive research with diverse populations.
I identify as an anti-racist educator and I teach graduate courses in multicultural counseling, developmental psychology, microskills in counseling, counseling theories, and gender and counseling. I am also a licensed and practicing psychologist. I devote one day per week to my consulting and clinical practice. My theoretical orientation is an integrated approach comprised of interpersonal process with multicultural and feminist theories.
In terms of my professional homes, I have been mentored from the APA Minority Fellowship Program all throughout my graduate training. I was also HA-STTP fellow at UCLA after graduating, followed by being a Visiting Professor in the USCF Center for Prevention Training Program. In 2015, I was recognized as an early career Rising Star at the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. In 2021, I was awarded with the Distinguished Pioneer Award from the Society for the Psychology of Women (Div 35) Section 5 (Asian Pacific American women). In 2023, I was awarded the Early Career Social Justice Award from the Society for Counseling Psychology (Division 17). I am truly blessed to come from professional homes that have supported, uplifted, and encouraged me to continue to do important work for our communities.
As for my service to the profession, I sit on the APA Council of Representatives which is the legislative body of APA. I represent Division 45 (2023-2025; 2026-2029) and am continuing my second 3-year term. Before this, I was member of and also chair of APA's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (2019-2021; chair in 2021). I was also treasurer for the Division 35 Section 5 Psychology of Asian Pacific American Women. In the last few years, I have chaired the Asian American Psychological Association (AAPA) Division on Women (DOW).
Since the COVID19 pandemic, I have become increasingly active in speaking on the topic of anti-Asian racism, anti-blackness, and radical healing for collective healing and liberation. If you are interested in learning more, the links to my media work are available!
Select Scholarly Publications
Wang, S.C. (2024). Storytelling as activism: Combatting anti-Asian racism with Asian American feminist, critical autoethnography. In Qualitative Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000316
Strunk, K. K., Thacker, N. E., & Wang, S. C. (2024). Identity development negotiation and navigation for LGBTQ + individuals in the Deep South. Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services, 36(4), 622–640. https://doi.org/10.1080/29933021.2024.2317715
Wang, S. C., Santos, B. M. C. (2023). At the intersection of the model minority myth and anti-Blackness: From Asian American marginalization to recommendations for solidarity." Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(4), 352-366. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000662
Wang, S. C., Santos, B. M. C. (2022). “What support?”: A qualitative study on social support for Asian American victims of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Frontiers in Public Health: Special Issue on anti-Asian Racism and Public Health, 19(10), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.961215
Wang, S.C., & Santos, B. M. C. (2022). “Go back to China with your (expletive) virus”: A revelatory case study of anti-Asian racism during COVID-19. Asian American Journal of Psychology: Special Issue on COVID-19, 13(3), 220-233. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aap0000287
Wang, S. C., Raja, A. H., & Azhar, S. (2020). "A lot of us have a very difficult time reconciling what being Muslim is": A phenomenological study on the meaning of being Muslim American. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26(3), 338-346. https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000297
Wang, S. C., Plano Clark, V., & Fan, S. K. (in press). “How do we raise Chinese kids here?” A qualitative study on the cultural translation of immigrant Chinese parents in a Midwestern context." Springer Series on Navigating Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Immigrant Family Ecologies.
Wang, S. C., Hubbard, R. R., & Dorazio, C. (2019). Overcoming racial battle fatigue through dialogue: Voices of three counseling psychologist trainees. Training and Education in Professional Psychology: Special Issue on Diversity and Inclusion in Education and Training, 14(4), 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000283
Smiley, S. L., Wang, S. C., Kierstead, E. C., Smiley-Dowers, A., Hamilton, A. B., & Milburn, N. G. (2019). Jack’d dating application motivations, experiences, and sexual risk behaviors: a qualitative pilot study. Journal of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2019.1623738
Connell, C. L., Wang, S. C., Crook, L., & Yadrick, K. (2019). Barriers to healthcare seeking and provision among African American adults in the rural Mississippi Delta region: Community and provider perspectives. Journal of Community Health, 1-10, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-019-00620-1
Alamilla, S. G., Barney, B. J., Small, R. S., Wang, S. C., Schwartz, S. J., Donovan, R. A., & Lewis, C. (2019). Explaining the immigrant paradox: The influence of acculturation, enculturation, and acculturative stress on problematic alcohol consumption. Behavioral Medicine, 1-13, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2018.1539945
Strunk, K. K., Wang, S. C., Beall, A., Dixon, C., Stabin, D., & Rhida, B. (2018). “I knew what I was going to school for”: A mixed methods examination of Black college students’ racialized experiences and meaning-making at a southern PWI. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 4(1), 61-71. https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol4/iss1/3
Wang, S. C., Lui, J. H. L., Vega, G., Waldrop, M., & Garris, J. (2018). The moderating effect of alcohol use on protective and risky sex behaviors among college students in the Southeast U.S. Journal of American College Health, published online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1431916
Wang, S. C., & Iwamasa, G. Y. (2018). Indigenous healing practices and Asian immigrant women. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2), 149-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2017.1330917
Wang, S. C., Nguyen, D., & Creswell, J. W. (2017). Vietnamese refugee elderly women and their experiences of social support: A multiple case study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, published online first, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-017-9338-0
Wang, S. C., Crook, L., Connelly, C., & Yadrick, K. (2017). “We need help in the Delta”: Barriers to health promotion among older African American men in the Mississippi Delta. American Journal of Men’s Health, 11(2), 414-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988316684472
Wang, S. C., Plano Clark. V. L., & Scheel, M. J. (2016). The enculturation experience of three Chinese American adolescents: A multiple case study. The Counseling Psychologist, 44(5), 661-694. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000016633875
Kantamneni, N., Shada, N., Conley, M. R., Hellwege, M. A., Tate, J. M., & Wang, S. C. (2016). Academic and career development of undocumented college students: The American dream? The Career Development Quarterly, 64, 318-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12068
Wang. S. C., Schwartz, S. J., & Zamboanga, B. L. (2010). Acculturative stress among Cuban American college students: Exploring the mediating pathways between acculturation and psychosocial functioning. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(11), 2862-2887. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00684.x
Schwartz, S. J., Zamboanga, B. L., Weisskirch, R. S., & Wang, S. C. (2010). The relationships of personal and cultural identity to adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning in emerging adults. Journal of Social Psychology, 150, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224540903366784
Book Chapters
Wang, S. C. (in press). The need to understand oppression in context: Why study health disparities among LGBTQ people in the deep south. In Queering in the deep south: Research on queer studies and LGBTQ lives in the U.S. southeast.
Plano Clark, V. L., *Wang, S. C., & Toraman, S. (in press). The history and advances in mixed methods research in psychology. In A. Schweizer, M. del Rio Carral, & M. S. Delefosse (Eds.), Mixed methods in psychology: Quantitative and qualitative analyses, from theory to practice. France: Éditions Dunod.
Kim, B. S. K., Park. Y. S., & Wang, S. C. (2019). East and Southeast Asian Americans. In G. J. McAuliffe, Culturally alert counseling (3rd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Plano Clark, V. L., Wang, S. C., & Toraman, S. (2019). Applying qualitative and mixed methods research in family psychology. In B. Fiese, K. Deater-Deckard, M. Celano, E. Jouriles, & M. Whisman (Eds.), APA handbook of contemporary family psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 317-333). Washington, DC: APA.
Yakushko, O., Wang, S. C., & McCloskey, C. (2017). Interdisciplinarity in multicultural psychology: An integrated review and case examples (pp. 315-322). In J. M. Casas, L. A., Suzuki C. M., Alexander, & M. A. Jackson (Eds.) Handbook of multicultural counseling, Fourth edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Morgan Consoli, M. L., Wang, S. C., Delucio, K., & Yakushko, O. (2017). Psychotherapy with immigrants and refugees: Culturally congruent practice (pp. 363-377). In A. J. Consoli, L. E., Beutler, & B. Bongar (Eds.) Comprehensive textbook on psychotherapy: Theory and practice, Second edition. Oxford University Press.
Badiee, M., Wang. S. C., & Creswell, J. W. (2012). Community-based mixed methods research with ethnocultural populations. In D. Nagata, L. Kohn-Wood, & L. Suzuki (Eds.), Qualitative strategies for ethnocultural research. Washington, DC: APA.
Plano Clark, V. L., & Wang, S. C. (2010). Adapting mixed methods research to multicultural counseling. In J. G. Ponterotto, J. M. Casas, L. A. Suzuki, & C. M. Alexander (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural counseling (3rd ed., pp. 427-438). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Edited Publications
Wang, S. C. & Parks, F. M. (Eds.). (2018). Past, present, and future of HIV/AIDS science and practice in psychology. Psychology and AIDS Exchange Newsletter. APA Public Interest Directorate. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/aids/resources/exchange/index.aspx
Wang, S.C. (2024). Storytelling as activism: Combatting anti-Asian racism with Asian American feminist, critical autoethnography. In Qualitative Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000316
Strunk, K. K., Thacker, N. E., & Wang, S. C. (2024). Identity development negotiation and navigation for LGBTQ + individuals in the Deep South. Sexual and Gender Diversity in Social Services, 36(4), 622–640. https://doi.org/10.1080/29933021.2024.2317715
Wang, S. C., Santos, B. M. C. (2023). At the intersection of the model minority myth and anti-Blackness: From Asian American marginalization to recommendations for solidarity." Journal of Counseling Psychology, 70(4), 352-366. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000662
Wang, S. C., Santos, B. M. C. (2022). “What support?”: A qualitative study on social support for Asian American victims of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Frontiers in Public Health: Special Issue on anti-Asian Racism and Public Health, 19(10), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.961215
Wang, S.C., & Santos, B. M. C. (2022). “Go back to China with your (expletive) virus”: A revelatory case study of anti-Asian racism during COVID-19. Asian American Journal of Psychology: Special Issue on COVID-19, 13(3), 220-233. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aap0000287
Wang, S. C., Raja, A. H., & Azhar, S. (2020). "A lot of us have a very difficult time reconciling what being Muslim is": A phenomenological study on the meaning of being Muslim American. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 26(3), 338-346. https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000297
Wang, S. C., Plano Clark, V., & Fan, S. K. (in press). “How do we raise Chinese kids here?” A qualitative study on the cultural translation of immigrant Chinese parents in a Midwestern context." Springer Series on Navigating Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Immigrant Family Ecologies.
Wang, S. C., Hubbard, R. R., & Dorazio, C. (2019). Overcoming racial battle fatigue through dialogue: Voices of three counseling psychologist trainees. Training and Education in Professional Psychology: Special Issue on Diversity and Inclusion in Education and Training, 14(4), 285-292. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000283
Smiley, S. L., Wang, S. C., Kierstead, E. C., Smiley-Dowers, A., Hamilton, A. B., & Milburn, N. G. (2019). Jack’d dating application motivations, experiences, and sexual risk behaviors: a qualitative pilot study. Journal of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/19361653.2019.1623738
Connell, C. L., Wang, S. C., Crook, L., & Yadrick, K. (2019). Barriers to healthcare seeking and provision among African American adults in the rural Mississippi Delta region: Community and provider perspectives. Journal of Community Health, 1-10, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-019-00620-1
Alamilla, S. G., Barney, B. J., Small, R. S., Wang, S. C., Schwartz, S. J., Donovan, R. A., & Lewis, C. (2019). Explaining the immigrant paradox: The influence of acculturation, enculturation, and acculturative stress on problematic alcohol consumption. Behavioral Medicine, 1-13, published online first, https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2018.1539945
Strunk, K. K., Wang, S. C., Beall, A., Dixon, C., Stabin, D., & Rhida, B. (2018). “I knew what I was going to school for”: A mixed methods examination of Black college students’ racialized experiences and meaning-making at a southern PWI. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 4(1), 61-71. https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol4/iss1/3
Wang, S. C., Lui, J. H. L., Vega, G., Waldrop, M., & Garris, J. (2018). The moderating effect of alcohol use on protective and risky sex behaviors among college students in the Southeast U.S. Journal of American College Health, published online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2018.1431916
Wang, S. C., & Iwamasa, G. Y. (2018). Indigenous healing practices and Asian immigrant women. Women and Therapy, 41(1-2), 149-164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2017.1330917
Wang, S. C., Nguyen, D., & Creswell, J. W. (2017). Vietnamese refugee elderly women and their experiences of social support: A multiple case study. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, published online first, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10823-017-9338-0
Wang, S. C., Crook, L., Connelly, C., & Yadrick, K. (2017). “We need help in the Delta”: Barriers to health promotion among older African American men in the Mississippi Delta. American Journal of Men’s Health, 11(2), 414-425. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988316684472
Wang, S. C., Plano Clark. V. L., & Scheel, M. J. (2016). The enculturation experience of three Chinese American adolescents: A multiple case study. The Counseling Psychologist, 44(5), 661-694. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000016633875
Kantamneni, N., Shada, N., Conley, M. R., Hellwege, M. A., Tate, J. M., & Wang, S. C. (2016). Academic and career development of undocumented college students: The American dream? The Career Development Quarterly, 64, 318-332. https://doi.org/10.1002/cdq.12068
Wang. S. C., Schwartz, S. J., & Zamboanga, B. L. (2010). Acculturative stress among Cuban American college students: Exploring the mediating pathways between acculturation and psychosocial functioning. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40(11), 2862-2887. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00684.x
Schwartz, S. J., Zamboanga, B. L., Weisskirch, R. S., & Wang, S. C. (2010). The relationships of personal and cultural identity to adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning in emerging adults. Journal of Social Psychology, 150, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224540903366784
Book Chapters
Wang, S. C. (in press). The need to understand oppression in context: Why study health disparities among LGBTQ people in the deep south. In Queering in the deep south: Research on queer studies and LGBTQ lives in the U.S. southeast.
Plano Clark, V. L., *Wang, S. C., & Toraman, S. (in press). The history and advances in mixed methods research in psychology. In A. Schweizer, M. del Rio Carral, & M. S. Delefosse (Eds.), Mixed methods in psychology: Quantitative and qualitative analyses, from theory to practice. France: Éditions Dunod.
Kim, B. S. K., Park. Y. S., & Wang, S. C. (2019). East and Southeast Asian Americans. In G. J. McAuliffe, Culturally alert counseling (3rd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Plano Clark, V. L., Wang, S. C., & Toraman, S. (2019). Applying qualitative and mixed methods research in family psychology. In B. Fiese, K. Deater-Deckard, M. Celano, E. Jouriles, & M. Whisman (Eds.), APA handbook of contemporary family psychology (Vol. 1, pp. 317-333). Washington, DC: APA.
Yakushko, O., Wang, S. C., & McCloskey, C. (2017). Interdisciplinarity in multicultural psychology: An integrated review and case examples (pp. 315-322). In J. M. Casas, L. A., Suzuki C. M., Alexander, & M. A. Jackson (Eds.) Handbook of multicultural counseling, Fourth edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Morgan Consoli, M. L., Wang, S. C., Delucio, K., & Yakushko, O. (2017). Psychotherapy with immigrants and refugees: Culturally congruent practice (pp. 363-377). In A. J. Consoli, L. E., Beutler, & B. Bongar (Eds.) Comprehensive textbook on psychotherapy: Theory and practice, Second edition. Oxford University Press.
Badiee, M., Wang. S. C., & Creswell, J. W. (2012). Community-based mixed methods research with ethnocultural populations. In D. Nagata, L. Kohn-Wood, & L. Suzuki (Eds.), Qualitative strategies for ethnocultural research. Washington, DC: APA.
Plano Clark, V. L., & Wang, S. C. (2010). Adapting mixed methods research to multicultural counseling. In J. G. Ponterotto, J. M. Casas, L. A. Suzuki, & C. M. Alexander (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural counseling (3rd ed., pp. 427-438). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Edited Publications
Wang, S. C. & Parks, F. M. (Eds.). (2018). Past, present, and future of HIV/AIDS science and practice in psychology. Psychology and AIDS Exchange Newsletter. APA Public Interest Directorate. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/aids/resources/exchange/index.aspx
