Alvin Thomas

LIFE Fellow from 2010 to 2013, University of Michigan

PhD

Dissertation completed in May 2013

Bad Boys or Bad Odds? Race, Context, and Social Influence: An Investigation of Youth Violence in African-American Boys

(Advisor: Cleopatra Caldwell)

Recipient of LIFE Outstanding Alumni Award 2022

Selected Publications

Cooper, S. M., Thomas, A., Harty, J., Garrett, S., Cryer-Coupet, Q., Burnett, M., McBride, M., & Pate, D. (2023). Honoring foundational Black psychologists' contributions to research on Black fathers. American Psychologist, 78(4), 535–550. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001120

Thomas, A., Gale, A., & Golden, A. R. (2023). Online racial discrimination, critical consciousness, and psychosocial distress among Black and Latino adolescents: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(5), 967-979. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01732-z

Thomas, A., Jing, M., Chen, H. Y., & Crawford, E. L. (2023). Taking the good with the bad? Social media and online racial discrimination influences on psychological and academic functioning in Black and Hispanic youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(2), 245–257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01689-z