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Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Oregon State University
Education/Degree:
1 Social Science and Comparative Education (University of California, Los Angeles)
About
Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen is an assistant professor of higher education at Lewis & Clark College. Her research examines how categorization reveals, maintains, and mitigates inequality in education, with particular attention to racial and organizational classifications. In combination, these areas of research have manifested in studies on minority serving institutions (MSIs), ethnic stratification, and organizational behavior and change. Dolly?s work has been published in American Educational Research Journal, Review of Research in Education and Review of Higher Education. She was the 2017-2018 University of Pennsylvania Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) Fellow.
Current Work
Dolly's current work includes a Spencer Foundation-funded national study on minority serving institutions (MSIs), which explores the institutional processes of inhabiting the MSI organizational category, and thus the enactment of racial equity. She is also working in partnership with community-based organizations and school districts in Washington State, as they implement changes to their racial categories, to examine the process of racial formation and reconstruction within an educational field. This project is generously supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Research Area Keyword(s)
ethnicity, organizational change, race, racial heterogeneity, racial stratification