Selected Publications
Books
Strunk, K. K., & Mwavita, M. (Under contract, scheduled 2024). Design and analysis in quantitative educational research: Univariate designs in SPSS. Routledge.
Castillo, W., & Strunk, K. K. (Under contract, scheduled 2024). How to QuantCrit: Applying Critical Race Theory to quantitative data. Routledge.
Duran, A., Strunk, K. K., & Schey, R. (Eds.) (2023). Bridging the rainbow gap: Exploring the possibilities and tensions in queer and trans studies in education. Brill. ISBN: 9789004549760
Strunk, K. K. & Shelton, S. A. (Eds.) (2021). Encyclopedia of queer studies in education. Brill. ISBN: 9789004506718
Strunk, K. K. & Mwavita, M. (2021). Design and analysis in educational research: ANOVA designs in jamovi. Routledge. ISBN: 9780367723088
Strunk, K. K. & Mwavita, M. (2020). Design and analysis in educational research: ANOVA designs in SPSS. Routledge. ISBN: 9781138361164
Strunk, K. K. & *Fieszli, R. (Eds.) (2020). Queering public health and public policy in the Deep South. Information Age Publishing. ISBN: 9781641139663
Strunk, K. K., & Locke, L. A. (Eds.) (2019). Research methods for social justice and equity in education. Palgrave. ISBN: 9783030058999
Strunk, K. K. (Ed.) (2019). Queering spirituality and community in the Deep South. Information Age Publishing. ISBN: 9781641135733
Strunk, K. K. (Ed.) (2018). Queering education in the Deep South. Information Age Publishing. ISBN: 9781641132459
Strunk, K. K., Locke, L. A., & Martin, G. L. (2017). Oppression and resistance in Southern higher and adult education: Mississippi and the dynamics of equity and social justice. Palgrave. ISBN: 9781137576637
Journal Articles
Strunk, K. K. (2023). QuantQueer: Renovating quantitative methods through queer and critical theoretical traditions. Educational Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2023.2276229
Strunk, K. K., & Andrzejewski, C. E. (2023). Racisms of commission and omission in educational psychology: A historical analysis and systematic review. Educational Psychologist, 58(2), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2022.2152031
*Weise, J., *Courtney, S., & Strunk, K. K. (2023). “I didn’t think I’d be supported,”: LGBTQ students’ non-reporting of bias incidents at Southeastern colleges and universities. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 16(5), 607-618. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000274
Strunk, K. K., Locke, L. A., *Chang, J., *Clancy, P., & *Drake, L. (2021). From the spies of Mississippi to the eyes of the White House: Surveilling and obstructing antiracist work in the U.S. The Professional Educator, 44(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.47038/tpe.44.01.03
Strunk, K. K., Baggett, H. C., & Watts, I. E. (2020). “Diversity & inclusion & free speech & civility”: Oppression and marginalization through diversity rhetoric. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 5(3), 65-78. https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol5/iss3/4/
Bailey, L. E., & Strunk, K. K. (2018). “A question everybody danced around”: Self-identified gay men negotiating identity in Christian colleges. Educational Studies, 54(5), 483-504. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2018.1453513
Strunk, K. K., Wang, S. C., *Beall, A. L., *Dixon, C. E., *Stabin, D. J., & *Ridha, B. Z. (2018). “I knew what I was going to school for”: A mixed methods examination of Black college students’ racialized experiences at a Southern PWI. Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs, 4(1), 61-71. https://ecommons.luc.edu/jcshesa/vol4/iss1/3
Strunk, K. K., & Bailey, L. E. (2015). The difference one word makes: Imagining sexual orientation in graduate school application essays. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, 2(4), 456-462. https://doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000136
Book Chapters
Strunk, K. K. (2023). Critical approaches to quantitative research: Review, critique, and applications. In S. Diem & M. Young (Eds.), Handbook of critical educational research (pp. 56-74). Routledge.
Strunk, K. K., & *Kulick, K. (2023). Confessions of whiteness in queer organizing spaces. In A. Duran, K. Strunk, & R. Schey (Eds.), Bridging the rainbow gap: Exploring the possibilities and tensions in queer and trans studies in education (pp. 88-104). Brill. D
Taylor, L. D., Baggett, H. C., & Strunk, K. K. (2021). Epistemic engagement: Teaching and learning about ways of knowing. In A. Samuels & G. Samuels (Eds.), Fostering diversity and inclusion in the social sciences (pp. 33-48). Information Age Publishing.
Demoiny, S., Baggett, H. C., & Strunk, K. K. (2020). Political correctness. In Z. Casey (Ed.), Critical understandings in education encyclopedia: Critical whiteness studies (pp. 461-467). Brill Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444836_062
*Fieszli, R., & Strunk, K. K. (2020). LGBTQ mental health disparities in the Deep South: Trends in mental health discourse and the lived experiences of LGBTQ Southerners. In K. K. Strunk & R. Fieszli (Eds.), Queering public health and public policy in the Deep South (pp. 55-72). Information Age Publishing.D
Strunk, K. K., & *Hoover, P. D. (2019). Quantitative methods for social justice and equity: Theoretical and practical considerations. In K. K. Strunk & L. A. Locke (Eds.), Research methods for social justice and equity in education (pp. 191-201). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05900-2_16 D
Strunk, K. K., & *Betties, J. S. (2019). Using critical theory in educational research. In K. K. Strunk & L. A. Locke (Eds.), Research methods for social justice and equity in education (pp. 71-79). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05900-2_6 D
*Beall, A. L., & Strunk, K. K. (2018). Making sense of contradictions in Deep South schooling: Queer potentialities and possibilities. In K. K. Strunk (Ed.), Queering education in the Deep South (pp. 101-118). Information Age Publishing.D
Strunk, K. K., Baggett, H., *Riemer, A., & *Hafftka, R. (2016). Community-based participatory research with LGBTQ communities in Alabama and Mississippi. In SAGE research methods cases. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526401083
Strunk, K. K., Bristol, D., & *Takewell, W. C. (2016). Queering South Mississippi: Simple and seemingly impossible work. In sj Miller & N. M. Rodriguez. Educators queering academia: Critical memoirs (pp. 155-164). Peter Lang.
Strunk, K. K., Locke, L. A., & *McGee, M. K. (2015). Neoliberalism and contemporary reform efforts in Mississippi’s public education system. In M. Abendroth, & B. J. Porfilio (Eds.), Understanding neoliberal rule in K-12 schools: Educational fronts for local and global justice (pp. 45-59). Information Age Publishing.
Strunk, K. K., Bailey, L. E., & *Takewell, W. C. (2014). “The enemy in the midst”: Gay identified men in Christian college spaces. In W. M. Reynolds (Ed.), Critical studies of southern place: A reader (pp. 369-378). Peter Lang.