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Barbara A. Kerr

Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology
University of Kansas, Kansas

Barbara A. Kerr, Ph.D., is the Williamson Family Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education at the University of Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
Dr. Kerr is the author of seven books, including A Handbook for Counseling Gifted and Talented; Smart Girls in the Twenty-First Century; Smart Girls: New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Talent Development; Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning; Letters to the Medicine Man: The Shaping of Spiritual Intelligence; Counseling Women: Ten Years of NSF Gender Equity Studies and is editor of The Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development and Major Works in Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development. She has written more than 150 articles and papers on the topic of guiding and nurturing talent. Her research ranges from case studies of inventors, artists, writers, and architects to large-scale studies of students who attained the highest scores on the ACT college admissions test.
She is a winner of the International Creativity Award from the World Council on Gifted and Talented, National Association for Gifted Children Torrance Award for Contributions to Creativity, the Esther Katz Rosen Award for Research in Gifted Education, and she is an American Psychological Association Fellow, as well as named one of the 25 most influential psychologists in the study of giftedness by APA.

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