Research 

Tenisha's work examines institutional practices in an effort to promote equity and inclusion for both students and leaders. Here is her Google Scholar Profile for access to additional publications.

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Foste, Z. & Tevis, T. L., (2022, July 29). Critical Whiteness Praxis in Higher Education: Considerations for the Pursuit of Racial Justice on Campus. Stylus Publishing. 


Tevis, T. L., & Foste, Z. (2022). From complacency to criticality: Envisioning antiracist leadership among white higher education administrators. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000399


Whitehead, M.A.; Foste, Z.; Duran, A.; Tevis, T.; Cabrera, N.L. Disrupting the Big Lie: Higher Education and Whitelash in a Post/Colorblind Era. Educ. Sci. 2021, 11, 486. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090486

Tevis, Whitehead, Foste, & Duran. (2023) Whiteness Beyond (Just) White People: Exploring the Interconnections between Dimensions of Whiteness in Higher Education.  Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Practice


Tevis, T., Martinez, J., & Lozano, Y. (2022). Disrupting White Hegemony: A Necessary Shift Toward Anti-Racist Approaches within Instructional Practices. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education


Tevis,  T. &  Pifer,  M.  (2022). Privilege  and  Oppression:  Exploring  the  role  White  women administrators’  paradoxical  identity  plays  in  their  Leadership. Journal  Committed  to  Social Change on Race and Ethnicity


Tevis, T., Davis, T, Perez-Gill, S., & Amason, T. (2022) Advising Black students and anti-oppressive frameworks: A systematic review of college access and college counseling literature. The Journal of College Access

Tevis, T., Pifer, M, & Baker, V. (2021). Approaches and Allies: An Exploration of Women Leaders  in  Higher  Education  Administration  During  Global  Crises,"  for  the  upcoming  book, Women and Leadership in Higher Education During Global Crises.


Tevis, T. (2021) “It’s a sea-change”: Understanding the role the racial and socio-political climate play on the role-shift of the American college presidency. Education Policy Analysis Archives https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.29.5153


Chunoo,  V.  S., Tevis,  T.,  Guthrie,  K.  L.,  Norman,  S.  &  Corces-Zimmerman,  C.  (2020) Evolution  and  revolution:  Social  justice  and  critical  theory  in  leadership  education  research  In Creating  a  National  Leadership  Education  Research  Agenda 2020-2024:  Providing  Strategic Direction for the Field of Leadership Education. Journal of Leadership Studies Symposium

Reflective Commentaries 

Beatty,  C.  C., Tevis,  T.,  Acker,  L.,  Blockett,  R.,  &  Parker,  E.  (2020). Addressing  Anti-Black Racism in Higher Education: Love Letters to Blackness and Recommendations to Those Who Say They Love Us. JCSCORE, 6(1), 6-27.


Tevis, T. (2021) By choice and by obligation: Taking on extra responsibilities during this time of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement. The ADVANCE Journal  https://doi.org/10.5399/osu/ADVJRNL.2.2.11


Parker, E., Tevis, T., Beatty, C. C., & Blockett, R. (accepted). We’ve Seen This Movie Before: The Disingenuity of Routine Institutional Responses to Address Anti-Black Racism. ACPA Developments