Rate My Professor John Gonzalez

Dr. John Gonzalez, a member of the White Earth Anishinaabe Nation, serves as Chair and Professor of Psychology at Bemidji State University, where he also co-directs the Indigenous Students in Psychology Program since 2021. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Dakota in August 2005, with a dissertation titled In-Group/Out-Group Dynamics of Native American Mascot Endorsement; a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Dakota in December 2002, with a thesis on Native Identity in Ojibwe Adolescents: Bicultural and Ethnicity Factors; and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a minor in Ojibwe Language from Bemidji State University in May 1999, graduating summa cum laude and recognized as Outstanding Psychology Student and Outstanding Native American Student.

Gonzalez's career includes progression at Bemidji State University from Assistant Professor (2008-2011) to Associate Professor (2012-2016) and Professor (2016-present), alongside roles as Research Associate at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth (2007-present), and earlier as Director and Assistant Professor of the Alaska Natives into Psychology Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2005-2008). He has received the Bemidji State University Distinguished Service Award (2021), Outstanding Post-Secondary Teacher of the Year from the Minnesota Indian Education Association (2017), President’s University Faculty Scholar (2015), Native Scholar in Residence (2013), and American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship (2001-2004). Key publications include co-authoring Multicultural Psychology: Understanding our Diverse Communities, sixth edition (Oxford University Press, 2023) and fifth edition (2019); "Living a Good Way of Life: Perspectives from American Indian and First Nation Young Adults" (American Journal of Community Psychology, 2019); "Racial Microaggressions in Health Care Settings" (Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2015); "Collaborative Measurement Development as a Tool in Community Based Participatory Research" (American Journal of Community Psychology, 2014); and "Native Identity: Application of a Multidimensional Model" (American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Journal, 2011). His scholarship addresses indigenous mental health, racial microaggressions, multicultural issues, and community-based research, contributing to psychology education and Native community well-being.