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Meredith Hope
Assistant Professor of Psychology
College of Wooster
Education/Degree:
1 Educational Psychology Educational Psychology (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
About
Meredith Hope is an assistant professor of psychology at the College of Wooster. She was previously a scholarship-to-practice fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity. Prior to this appointment, she held the Paul B. Cornely postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She holds a PhD in educational psychology (with an emphasis on cognition, learning, and development), as well as a master's degree in developmental psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Current Work
Dr. Hope examines culturally specific community contexts as social change agents and protective resources for positive development and health outcomes among at-risk and/or Black youth and emerging adults. Recent scholarship has been published in American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, Psychology of Religion & Spirituality, and Journal of Child & Family Studies. With an eye toward developing evidence-based interventions, Dr. Hope plans to expand this line of research by partnering with community stakeholders to promote academic and health equity by enhancing local resources for diverse youth and emerging adults in disenfranchised communities.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Adolescents, Black Americans, emerging adulthood, racial discrimination, sociocultural determinants of health and well-being