Kaleb Briscoe

Kaleb Briscoe Brown, Ph.D. (publishing under Kaleb L. Briscoe) is an Associate Professor of Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research examines campus racial climate environments and hate crimes on college campuses, higher education politics and policy, and presidential rhetoric, discourse, and responses to issues of race and racism. Dr. Briscoe Brown is an expert in qualitative and mixed methods research, with training in narrative/storytelling, case study, autoethnography, critical policy analysis, and survey design. She has taught advanced qualitative methods and introductory research courses for master's and doctoral students. She has secured grants and external funding from the Spencer Foundation, Gates Foundation, Lumina Foundation, Trellis Foundation, NASPA–Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, ACPA–College Student Educators International, ACUI–Association of College Unions International, and NACA–National Association for Campus Activities Foundation.

She has published her work in venues such as the Journal of Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Innovative Higher Education, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of College Student Development, and Journal of Negro Education. Dr. Briscoe Brown serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Higher Education, one of the premier journals in the field of higher education, and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and the American Journal of Education. Dr. Briscoe Brown is a 2025 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2023 ACPA Emerging Scholar, 2023-2024 University of California Fellow for the National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, and 2023 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Mildred Garcia Research Junior Award recipient. She currently serves as a Faculty Fellow for the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy at the University of Oklahoma and QualLab at the Ohio State University. In 2024, Dr. Briscoe Brown presented her research on hate crimes at the White House at a Workshop on Advancing Understanding of Hate and Bias-Related Incidents sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, with support from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, and National Institutes of Health, in response to the administration’s goal to improve awareness of hate and bias-related incidents across the country. Her work has been featured in Inside Higher Ed, Higher Ed Dive, The Hill, and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.