Publications

Contreras, K. (2023). Notes from the Bottom: Black women doctoral students as academic mules, mammies, and maids in American academia. In, A. A. Asare, R.P. Chapdelaine, & M.D. Thompson, (When) will the joy come?: Black womxn in the ivory tower (in press). University of Massachusetts Press: MA

Contreras, K. (2020). Letter to my daughter. Intersections: Critical Issues in Education, 4(1) https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/intersections/vol4/iss1/6

Contreras, K. (2018). Reflection and practice through case studies: Being the only one…. In R. L. Pope, A. L. Reynolds, & J. A. Mueller, Multicultural competence in study affairs (pp. 274-276). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Professional Highlights

Campus Spotlight Award, 2021: Student Centers and Programming Services, Syracuse University

diane lyden murphy bread and roses awward for activism on behalf of women, trans, and nonconforming people, 2020: Recipient as part of the #NOTAGAINSU Student Collective, Syracuse University

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2020: The Graduate School, Syracuse University

Women of Color Leadership Project, 2019: National Women’s Studies Association

Annuit Coeptis Award, 2018: American College Personnel Association