 Vice President, Associate Provost, Faculty Affairs
Dr. Don Pope-Davis, professor of psychology, and vice president and associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Notre Dame, is a one of the top leading scholars of multicultural counseling based upon an analyzing the field over the past two decades in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, he was ranked third in the county in his field of study.
Pope-Davis, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 2000, studies in the areas of multicultural psychology, counseling and education. Specifically, he is interested in cultural and racial identity development, cultural competency training, development, and assessment. Other areas of research include multicultural supervision in professional psychology, development of multicultural measures for assessing environments and supervision, issues of mental health of people of color, and cross-cultural communications.
Pope-Davis is the co-author of three books, "Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Assessment, Education and Supervision," "The Intersections of Race, Class and Gender in Multicultural Counseling," and, most recently, "Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology." He also is a research fellow of the American Psychology Association.
Pope-Davis' administrative experience includes service for five years in the Notre Dame Graduate School -- as assistant vice president from 2002 to 2004 and associate vice president for the following two years. He served on an interim basis for the 2006-07 academic year as dean of the Graduate School. He has been coordinator of the University's Multicultural Research Institute since 2000 and directs Notre Dame's TRIO programs.
He has served since 2006 as chair of Notre Dame's Faculty Board on Athletics and as its NCAA faculty athletics representative.
A graduate of Benedictine University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and theology, Dr. Pope-Davis earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University.
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