Education
Doctorate Degree
PhD in Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Texas at Austin, 2007
Master's Degree
MA in Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Texas at Austin, 2002
Bachelor's Degree
BA in Psychology
Penn State University Park, 1997
Featured grants
- Johnson, Olivia Denise, Perez-Brena, Norma Judith, Hustvedt, Gwendolyn, Gray, Christine Robison, Thornton, Hannah Elizabeth Boeker. School of FCS Graduate Recruitment Committee, Texas State University, $5000. (Submitted: April 21, 2018, Funded: August 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Robison, S., & Gray, C. R. (2017). Agents of transformational change: Coaching skills for academic leaders. Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 28, 5–28.
- Ogolsky, B. G., & Gray, C. R. (2016). Conflict, negative emotion, and reports of partners’ relationship maintenance in same sex couples. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 171–180.
- Surra, C. A., Boettcher, T. M., Cottle, N. R., West, A., & Gray, C. R. (2006). The treatment of relationship status in research on dating and mate selection. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 69, 207–221.
- Surra, C. A., Gray, C. R., Boettcher, T. M. J., Cottle, N. R., & West, A. (2006). From courtship to universal properties: Research on dating and mate selection. In The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships (pp. 113–130). Cambridge University Press.
- Surra, C. A., Gray, C. R., Boettcher, T. M. J., Jarvis, M. O., & Cottle, N. R. (2003). Attraction, mate selection and courtship. In Handbook of family communication (pp. 53–82). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor: Exemplary Service During the COVID-19 Crisis, Texas State Alumni Association. May 22, 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: College of Applied Arts 2019 College Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. June 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi National College Honor Society Favorite Professor, Texas State University. April 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Undergraduate Student Recognition, Texas State University. May 2018
- Award / Honor Recipient: Part-Time Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas State University. 2017

Featured service activities
- Graduate Advisor
& Program Coordinator, M.S. Program in HDFS
- Member
Graduate Council
- Member
Child Life Committee
- Chair
Second-Year Leadership Committee
- Chair
Graduate Student Recruitment Committee
- Chair
Graduate Admissions Committee
