NCID-2007
Damani White-Lewis
Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Education/Degree:
1 Higher Education and Organizational Change (University of California, Los Angeles)
About
Damani White-Lewis is an assistant professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies racial inequality in academic careers and contexts using theories and methods from organizational behavior and social psychology. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and has appeared in The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, and others. As a public scholar, he has won several awards from educational organizations, been featured in outlets such as Inside Higher Ed and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, and regularly advises college campuses and external organizations on addressing issues related to the academic profession, racial equity, and institutional transformation and systemic change.
Current Work
Damani White-Lewis is currently working on a NSF grant that identifies complex racial- and gender-biases in faculty hiring through experimental and ethnographic methods. He is also a Co-Principal Investigator of a NSF-funded project which uses experimental methods to identify which kinds of interventions positively impact how much DEI weighs in tenure and promotion decisions. These streams of research lead to developing and refining equity-minded interventions and paradigms that improve decision-making contexts in faculty hiring, promotion and tenure, mentoring, and retention.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Faculty careers, higher education, minoritized faculty, organizational behavior