Biography:

Dave A. Louis, Ph.D. is a professor of higher education at the University of Houston’s College of Education. He uses counter-storytelling as the core of his research agenda that centers on the voices, authenticity, and meaningfulness of the Black experience in postcolonial environments. His research addresses the experiences of minoritized, marginalized, and underrepresented populations within higher education with a particular focus of individuals of the African Diaspora (including Afro Caribbean populations).  He also conducts research on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).


He was the 2020 recipient of the Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Scholarship awarded by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Multicultural/Multiethnic SIG, 2020 Fulbright Awardee (Germany), Chair for the Caribbean & African Studies in Education SIG #86 in AERA (2023-2025), a 50 in 5 Scholar at the University of Houston, the President’s Excellence in Diversity & Equity Award at Texas Tech University in 2015, and Texas A&M University's College of Education & Human Development Outstanding Alumni Award in 2021. He was also an Oprah Winfrey Scholar at Morehouse College.

Recent Publications:

Louis, D. A. & Rodriguez, N. (forthcoming) A tale of conundrum and desideratum: Invisible colonial vestiges and male underrepresentation in Caribbean higher education. In T. Esnard (Ed). Pursuing Social Justice Agendas for Caribbean Higher Education Institutions: Perspectives and Prospects for Small Island Developing States, Routledge.

Louis, D. A., Otero, N., Fleary, S., Gloudon, I. C., Hosten, C. M., Noel, H., Murray, I. V., &
Francois, E. D. (forthcoming). Invisibility, Anti-Blackness, and Pan-African Connectivity: Narratives of Afro Trinidadian faculty members navigating the American Academy. Caribbean Educational Research Journal.

Bonner II, F. A., marbley, a. f., Flowers, A. M., Burrell-Craft, K., Jennings, M. E., Louis, D.
A., Goings, R. B. Smith, S. L., Tilley, S. D., Garcia-Powell, B., Bolton, T. J., & Tarlton, E. L. (2024). Reconciling our strivings: Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) in contemporary contexts. Gifted Child Today, 47(1), 45–64. https://doi.org/10.1177/10762175231205917

Louis, D. A. (2023). Black faculty happiness: A qualitative ode to black faculty voices,
success, and retention at predominantly white research universities. Journal of Black Studies, 54(7), 557–572. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347231184259

Louis, D. A., Bryant-Scott, K, & Donatto, T. J. (2022) Voices of black leadership: Town-gown relationships and the black community. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 14(4), 63-76.

Louis, D. A. & Rügge, I. (2021). Observations and perceptions on a doctoral research seminar
in engineering and logistics. In N. Megow, M. Freitag & H. Kotzab (Eds.). Dynamics in Logistics: Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany (pp. 309-322). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88662-2_15

Louis, D. A., Thompson, K. V., Stanley, C. A., & Louis, Jr., B. M. (2020). Reflections,
relationships, and immigrant contributions: Narratives of Afro-Caribbean faculty members in American higher education. Caribbean Educational Research Journal, 5(1), 110-130. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.36098.50889

Porter, C. J., Moore, C. M, Boss, G. J., Davis, T. J., & Louis, D. A. (2020). To be Black
women and contingent faculty: Four scholarly personal narratives. The Journal of Higher Education, 91(5), 674-697. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2019.1700478

Louis, D. A., Michel, S. D., Deranek, J. & Louis, S. L. (2019). Reflection, realization, and
reaffirmation: Voices of black and white faculty members engaged in cross-racial mentoring. Multicultural Perspectives, 20(4), 205-215. doi:10.1080/15210960.2018.1527151

Mendoza, S. G. & Louis, D. A. (2018). Unspoken criticality: Developing scholarly voices for
minoritized students through UREs. SPUR: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 1(4), 18-24. doi: 10.18833/spur/1/4/7

Louis, D. A., & Freeman, S. (2018). Mentoring and the passion for propagation: Narratives of
two Black male faculty members who emerged from higher education and student affairs leadership. Journal of African American Males in Education, 9(1), 19-39.

Louis, D. A., Thompson, K. V., Smith, P., Williams, H. M. A. & Watson, J. (2017). Afro-
Caribbean immigrant faculty experiences in the American Academy: Voices of an invisible black population. The Urban Review, 49(4), 668-691. doi: 10.1007/s11256-017-0414-0

Arroyo, A. T., Palmer, R. T., Maramba, D. C., & Louis, D. A. (2017). Supporting racially
diverse students at HBCUs: A student affairs perspective. Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 54(2), 150-162. doi 10.1080/19496591.2016.1219266

Louis, D. A., Rawls, G., Jackson-Smith, D. A., Chambers, G. A., Phillips, L. L., & Louis, S.
L. (2016). Listening to our voices: Experiences of black faculty at predominantly white research universities with microaggression. Journal of Black Studies, 47(3), 1-21. doi: 10.1177/0021934716632983

Louis, D. A., Phillips, L. L., Louis, S. L., & Smith, A. R. (2015). Historically black colleges
and universities: Undergraduate research, mentoring and extending the graduate pipeline. Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring. 4(1). http://blogs.elon.edu/purm/2015/11/16/historically-black-colleges-and-universities-undergraduate-research-mentoring-and-the-graduate-pipeline/

Louis, D. A. (2015). Cross-cultural peer mentoring: Increasing white faculty adjustment at
Black colleges. International Journal of Multicultural Education. 17(3), 1-19. doi: 10.18251/ijme.v17i2.900

Stanley, C. & Louis, D. A. (2014) Cross gender mentoring from a Caribbean perspective. In
C. Viernes Turner (Eds.). Mentoring Across Institutions, Class, Gender & Race: Cultivating the Next Generation of Academics of Color (pp. 143-160). Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.

Louis, D. A., Russell, S. S, Jackson, D. L., Blanchard, S. J., & Louis, S. L. (2014).
Mentoring experiences of African American female student: Navigating the Academy. National Journal of Urban Education & Practice. 7(3), 232-246.

Louis, D. A. & Michel, S. D. (2013). Frantz Fanon ambivalence revisited in America’s
faculty: Narratives of black and white faculty struggles with cross cultural mentoring. National Journal of Urban Education & Practice, 6(3), 214- 227.

Robinson, P. A., Byrd, D., Louis, D. A., & Bonner, F. A. (2013). Enhancing faculty diversity
at community colleges: A practical solution for advancing the completion agenda. FOCUS on College, Universities & Schools, 7 (1). (online)

Bonner. F., Louis, D. & Lewis, C. W. (2010). African American male collegians: Race, class
and gender revealed. In Dancy, T.E. (Ed.). Managing Diversity: (Re)Visioning Equity on College Campuses. (pp. 117-140). New York: Peter Lang.

Louis, D. (2008). Examining white faculty maladjustment at historically Black colleges and
universities. National Journal of Urban Education & Practice, 2(3), 146-158.

Education:

B.A. in Psychology, Morehouse College, 1995
M.Ed. in Administration, Planning, & Social Policy, Harvard University, 1998
Ph.D. in Educational Administration, Texas A&M University, 2005