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  1. Beyond the Pipeline: First-Generation College Students’ Community Cultural Wealth and STEM Degree Pathways

    Article • Research in Higher Education, March 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  2. Does Advanced High School Coursework Enhance Community College Women’s Pathways to Computing Degrees? Evidence from Florida

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, November 2025, Project Muse

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  3. Does Advanced High School Coursework Enhance Community College Women’s Pathways to Computing Degrees? Evidence from Florida

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, November 2025, Project Muse

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  4. Minority-Serving Institutions’ Role in Enhancing Access to Computing Doctoral Education: A Multi-Method Landscape Analysis

    Article • Innovative Higher Education, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  5. Geography of Computing Graduate Degree Opportunities: Examining the Characteristics of Minority-Serving Institutions

    Article • Research in Higher Education, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  6. Public Financing of STEM Education: Research Evidence and Policy Recommendations

    Article • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  7. Pathways into Computing Fields by Florida’s Community College Students: An Intersectional Descriptive Analysis

    Article • Community College Journal of Research and Practice, November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  8. Does Advanced High School Coursework Enhance Community College Women’s Pathways to Computing Degrees? Evidence from Florida

    Article • November 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  9. Latin* Students in Engineering

    Article • June 2024, Rutgers University Press

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  10. The Impact of Merit Aid on STEM Major Choices: A Propensity Score Approach

    Article • Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, June 2024, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  11. Computing Education Interventions to Increase Gender Equity from 2000 to 2020: A Systematic Literature Review

    Article • Review of Educational Research, April 2024, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  12. Toward institutional transformation: warming the chilly climate for women in STEM through macrostructural change

    Article • Frontiers in Education, April 2024, Frontiers

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  13. Social Cognitive Predictors of Bystander Intervention in Racial Microaggressions Among College Students

    Article • Race and Social Problems, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  14. Applying the Bystander Intervention Model to Racial Microaggressions in College Students

    Article • International Journal of Bullying Prevention, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  15. Gender and Educational Inequality

    Article • January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  16. Gender Differences in Motivational and Curricular Pathways Towards Postsecondary Computing Majors

    Article • Research in Higher Education, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  17. How Do Institutional Type and Transfer Affect Contemporary College Students’ Degree Attainment?

    Article • Community College Journal of Research and Practice, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  18. Liberating Our Writing: Critical Narratives and Systemic Changes in Education and the Social Sciences

    Article • Multicultural Perspectives, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  19. Perceived abilities or academic interests? Longitudinal high school science and mathematics effects on postsecondary STEM outcomes by gender and race

    Article • International Journal of STEM Education, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  20. Does High School Mathematics and Science Course-Taking Predict Community College Students' Entry and Persistence to Computing Degrees? Evidence From Florida

    Article • January 2022, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  21. Gender, Course Taking, and STEM Fields: Following Florida's Community College Students' Pathways to Computing and Engineering Baccalaureate Degrees

    Article • January 2021, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  22. The puzzling relationship between international development and gender equity: The case of STEM postsecondary education in Cambodia

    Article • International Journal of Educational Development, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  23. A Scientific Research Agenda for Water Sustainability in the Mekong

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  24. Basic Needs Insecurity among Doctoral Students: What It Looks Like and How to Address It

    Article • About Campus Enriching the Student Learning Experience, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  25. Overview of Higher Education (USA)

    Article • January 2020, Bloomsbury Academic

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  26. A Scientific Research Agenda for Water Sustainability in the Mekong

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  27. Difficulty Orientations, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity: An Intersectional Analysis of Pathways to STEM Degrees

    Article • Social Sciences, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  28. The key to fixing the gender gap in math and science: Boost women’s confidence

    Article • November 2018, The Conversation

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  29. Harvard case could represent the end of race in college admissions

    Article • October 2018, The Conversation

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  30. Affirmative Action and Holistic Admissions in the United States: Historical and Policy Context

    Article • Perspectives Policy and Practice in Higher Education, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  31. Editors’ Notes

    Article • New Directions for Institutional Research, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  32. Conceptualizing the Field: Higher Education Research on the STEM Gender Gap

    Article • New Directions for Institutional Research, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  33. Warming the Chill: Insights for Institutions and Researchers to Keep Women in STEM

    Article • New Directions for Institutional Research, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  34. Sociological Perspectives on Socialization

    Article • August 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  35. Are 2-Year Colleges the Key? Institutional Variation and the Gender Gap in Undergraduate STEM Degrees

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  36. Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá: Conceptualizing the self-authorship experience of gay Latino college men using conocimiento

    Article • Journal of Latinos and Education, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  37. Engagement, Persistence, and Gender in Computer Science: Results of a Smartphone ESM Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2017, Frontiers

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  38. Gendered Pathways: How Mathematics Ability Beliefs Shape Secondary and Postsecondary Course and Degree Field Choices

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2017, Frontiers

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  39. Perceptions and Resilience in Underrepresented Students’ Pathways to College

    Article • Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  40. Perceived mathematical ability under challenge: a longitudinal perspective on sex segregation among STEM degree fields

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2015, Frontiers

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  41. Achievement Differences and Gender

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  42. Attitude Differences and Gender

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  43. What happens to high-achieving females after high school?

    Article • September 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  44. Achievement Differences and Gender

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  45. Attitude Differences and Gender

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  46. Handbook of Social Psychology: Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  47. Occupational Aspirations/Expectations

    Article • January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  48. Racial Inequality: Returns to Educational Investments

    Article • January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  49. Female and male adolescents' subjective orientations to mathematics and the influence of those orientations on postsecondary majors.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  50. Social Networks and the Education of Children and Youth

    Article • January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  51. Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, September 2005, SAGE Publications

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  52. Engineering Resilience through Research Mentorship: Manufacturing Pathways to Careers

    Article • American Society for Engineering Education

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  53. Students’ Perceptions of their Engineering Identity Development and REU Summer Program Experiences: An Equity-Centered Analysis

    Article • American Society for Engineering Education

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  54. Manufacturing the STEM Workforce: The Effect of Structured Undergraduate Research Experiences on Engineering Student Retention

    Article • American Society for Engineering Education

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner

  55. Manufacturing Inclusive Excellence: An Intersectional, Mixed Methods Study of Engineering Identity among Undergraduate Research Students at a Historically Black University

    Article • American Society for Engineering Education

    Dr. Lara Cristina Perez-Felkner