Donte Bernard, PhD

Donte Bernard is a Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina’s National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center. His research broadly seeks to examine how culturally relevant risk and protective factors moderate the association between racism-related stress and Black youths’ academic, social, and mental health outcomes. A primary goal of his research has been to identify and explicate how racism-related stress may influence the development and/or maintenance of impostor phenomenon, or cognitions of intellectual incompetence, and the unique cultural factors that may shape this interplay. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Bernard has extended his research program to investigate how childhood and early adolescent experiences of racism can be conceptualized through a traumatic stress perspective.

Email: bernadon@musc.edu