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*Johnson, J., Karras, J., & *Gabb, J. (in press). The Intersection of Inequality and Sociopolitical Development: How Children from Diverse Black Families Resist Injustice. Child & Youth Services. https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2026.2725211
López Hernández, G., *Maker Castro, E., Karras, J., & Suárez-Orozco, C. (in press). Navigating Exclusion, Pursuing Belonging: Immigrant-Origin Youths’ Adaptive Resistance Across Two Election Cycles. American Psychologist. DOI: 10.1037/amp0001777
Karras, J., *Maker Castro, E., & *Gabb, J. (2026). Critical Reflection in the Online Context: How Do Immigrant-Origin Youth Make Meaning of their Sociopolitical Experiences and Identities? Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70179
López Hernández, G. Karras, J., Mercado Ramos, D., & Boleaga, B. (2026). Developmental Shifts in Latinx Immigrant-Origin Adolescents’ Activity Spaces, Sense of Belonging, and Ethnic-Racial Identity. Journal of Research on Adolescence. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70178
Franco, M., Bottiani, J., Debnam, K., Pandey, T., Bonifay, W., Karras, J., & Bradshaw, C. (2024). CARES Classroom Observation Tool: Psychometrics of an Observational Measure of Culturally Responsive Practice. Journal of School Psychology, 107, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101381
Elisha, I., Karras, J., & Ruck, M. D. (2023). Looking Within: Elevating Black Scholarly Contributions to Empirical Approaches in Human Development. The American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001055
*Emuka, C. & Karras, J. (2023). Combatting risk with resilience: How bicultural socialization of Black immigrant-origin youth relates to well-being. Journal of Adolescence, Advance Online Publication. http://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12236
Larios, R., Karras, J., Suárez-Orozco, C., *Baqee, I. (2022). Using an Iterative Approach to Systematically Observe Culturally Responsive Practices Across Classrooms. Urban Education. Advance Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859221139832
Karras, J., *Maker Castro, E., & *Emuka, C. (2022). Examining the Sociopolitical Development of Immigrant-Origin Youth During a Season of Social Unrest. Journal of Research on Adolescence, "Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble": Dismantling Oppression Series as part of Special Series: Dismantling Systems of Racism and Oppression during Adolescence, 1-22. https://doi-org.jpllnet.sfsu.edu/10.1111/jora.12777
*Maker, E., *López Hernández, G., Karras, J., *Novoa, A., The New Generation Class, & Suárez-Orozco, C. (2022). “Everyone Collaborated and Came Together”: The Civic Promise (and Pitfalls) of yPAR for Immigrant-Origin Students in an Era of Deportation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(3), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000429
Karras, J., *López Hernández, G, *Cabral, P., *Nguyen, S., & Suárez-Orozco, C. (2021). Taking a “Whole” Classroom Perspective: Theorizing Classroom Typologies Using Qualitative Exemplars. Urban Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859211051378
Karras, J., Niwa, E., *Adesina , F., & Ruck, M. D. (2021). Confronting Whiteness: Conceptual, Contextual, and Methodological Considerations for Ethnic-Racial Socialization Research to Illuminate White Ethnic-Racial Identity Development. Journal of Social Issues, 77(4), 1305-1326. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12485
Karras, J., Astuto, J., Niwa, E., & Ruck, M. D. (2020). Trajectories of civic socialization in context: Examining variation among children in African American and Black immigrant families. Developmental Psychology, 56(12), 2293-2308. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001116
Karras., J., Elisha, I., Ruck, M. D., Tenenbaum, H. R., & Willenberg, I. A. (2019). Does Situation Matter in Conceptions of Children's Rights? An Examination of South African Children's and Mothers' Perspectives. International Journal of Children’s Rights, 27(4), 631-659. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02704002
Karras, J., Astuto, J., Gjicali, K., & Allen, L. (2017). Sample Retention in an Urban Context: Exploring Influential Factors Within a Longitudinal Randomized Evaluation. American Journal of Evaluation, 40(2), 268–290. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214017742719
Ballard, P., *Maker Castro, E., Karras, J., Warren, S., & Cohen, A. (2023). Critical Consciousness Development in the Context of a School-Based Action Civics Intervention. In E. Godfrey & L. Rapa (Eds.), Developing Critical Consciousness in Youth: Contexts and Settings (Contemporary Social Issues Series, pp. 41-59). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009153843
Elisha, I. M., Karras, J., & Ruck, M. D. (in press). The Civic Implications of Social Inequality: Centering Young People’s Perspectives on Resisting Oppression. To be published in J. L. Chin, Y. E. Garcia, & A. Blume (Eds.) The Psychology of Race and Ethnicity Series: Psychology of Inequity -Volume 3: Strategies and Solutions, Praeger 2023. Courtesy ABC-CLIO.
Karras, J., Ruck, M. D., Peterson-Badali, M., & *Emuka, C. (2022). Being and becoming: Centering the morality of social responsibility through children's right to participate in society. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.) Handbook of Moral Development (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003047247-10
Karras, J., Elisha, I., & Ruck, M. D. (2021). Cultivating and Maintaining Good Mentorship. In A. Shanok & N. Elden (Eds.) Thriving in Graduate School: The Experts’ Guide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. https://www.thrivingingradschool.com/
Karras, J., Pells, K., Morrow, V., & Ruck, M. (2020). Poverty and human rights for children and youth through the lenses of psychology and sociology. In N. S. Rubin & R. Flores (Eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights (pp. 191-204). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348607
Osei-Twumasi, O. & Karras, J. (2019). Dreams versus realities: Graduation Rates of Immigrant-Origin Community College Students. In C. Suárez-Orozco & O. Osei-Twumasi (Eds.) Immigrant-Origin Students in Community College: Navigating Risk and Reward in Higher Education (pp. 175-191). New York, NY: Teachers College Press. https://www.tcpress.com/immigrant-origin-students-in-community-college-9780807761946
Peterson-Badali M., Ruck M.D., Karras J., Huang S. (2019) Rights Knowledge, Reasoning, and Attitudes. In: Levesque R. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2nd ed.). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_172-2
*Denotes graduate or undergraduate student as co-author.