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Jennifer R. Cross, PhD

Director of Research
William & Mary Center for Gifted Education, Virginia

Jennifer Riedl Cross, Ph.D. is the Director of Research at the William & Mary Center for Gifted Education. She also directs the research of the W&M Institute for Research on the Suicide of Gifted Students. Dr. Cross holds a doctorate in educational psychology with a specialty in cognitive and social processes from Ball State University. She is the editor of the research journal Gifted Child Quarterly, a publication of the National Association for Gifted Children. As a social psychologist, Dr. Cross's research in the field of gifted education emphasizes its social aspects, particularly the social experience of being a high-ability student. She and Tracy L. Cross co-edited the Handbook for Counselors Serving Students with Gifts and Talents, now in its second edition. They are co-authors of Suicide among gifted children and adolescents, 2nd ed. and numerous articles on suicide and mental health among students with gifts and talents. Dr. Cross guest edited, with Dr. James Borland, a 2012 special issue of the Roeper Review on the topic of gifted education and social inequality. She was an invited keynote speaker at the Roeper Institute’s 2016 “A Matter of Equity Symposium” about gifted education in Detroit.

Dr. Cross was the 2015-2017 Chair of the Conceptual Foundations Network of the National Association for Gifted Children. In that role, she spearheaded the development of the Legacy Archive Project, which seeks to preserve the history of the field through interviews of significant contributors. She is also a member of the Society for Research on Adolescence and the American Psychological Association.

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