Rate My Professor John Gonzalez

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.