Camara Jules P. Harrell (born November 19, 1949), also known as Jules P. Harrell, is a professor of psychology at Howard University and a researcher in the field of the effects of stress and racism on the health of African Americans.
Jules Harrell was born on November 19, 1949, in Helena, Montana.[1] Harrell attended Carroll College and earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Harrell has been a professor of clinical psychology at Howard University for 30 years. In 2008, Harrell won the Exemplary Mentoring Award from Howard University's Faculty Senate.[2] Harrell's research interests include psychometrics and psychology of racism, personality theories, assessment, and research, and psychophysiology. Much of Harrell's research examines the effect of racism as a stressor to African Americans, resulting in poorer health.[3]
Harrell's 1999 book, Manichean Psychology: Racism and the Minds of People of African Descent, underscores the psychological detriments of racism on African Americans.[4] An article of Harrell's, "Multiple pathways linking racism to health outcomes," shows that racism causes poor health through cognitive, neural, affective, and prenatal pathways.[5] The article serves as a call to action for policymakers to remedy structural racism. Other research of Harrell's studies the different coping strategies employed by families of children with sickle cell disease.[6]