Welcoming 129 Scholars to the Diversity Scholars Network

Shafiqa Ahmadi
Associate Professor of Clinical Education and Co-Director for the Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
University of Southern California

Apryl Alexander
Clinical Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Professional Psychology, Co-Director of the Denver Forensic Institute for Research, Service, and Training (Denver FIRST), and Faculty Advisory Committee at the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy
University of Denver

Mauriell H. Amechi
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Leadership
Old Dominion University
Faculty Affiliate in the Office of Community College Research and Leadership
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Nazanin Andalibi
Assistant Professor in the School of Information
University of Michigan

Ashley Nichole Arnio
Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice
Texas State University

Mariella I. Arredondo
Research Associate at the Center on Education & Lifelong Learning at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community
Indiana University

Celeste E. Atkins
Instructor in Sociology and Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education
Cochise College

Vandana Avasty
Associate Professor in Information Sciences
University of Tennessee Knoxville

Genia M. Bettencourt
Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Student Success Research
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Barry Bogin
Professor of Biological Anthropology
Loughborough University, UK
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
University of Michigan-Dearborn

Keosha T. Bond
Assistant Professor of Health Behavior and Community Health, Visiting Faculty Fellow in the REIDS Scholar Program, and Adolescent HIV Trials Network Scholar
New York Medical College

Jill Marie Bradbury
Professor of English
Gallaudet University

Lauren Leigh Brown
NIA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Population Studies Center at the Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Douglas-Wade Brunton
Lecturer in the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies
The University of the West Indies, St Augustine

Janee N. Burkhalter
Associate Professor of Marketing and Faculty Liaison for Inclusion & Diversity
Saint Joseph's University

Philip Butler
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theological Studies and Founder of The Seekr Project
Loyola Marymount University

Julio Cardona
Lecturer in Higher Education
University of Michigan

Milagros Castillo-Montoya
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership
University of Connecticut

Roy Y. Chan
Director of TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) and Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership for Adult Learning
Lee University

Aurora Chang
Associate Professor in Higher Education and National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development Liaison and Coach
Loyola University

Edward C. Chang
Professor of Psychology and Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan

Shi-Yan Chao
Research Assistant Professor in Film Studies in the Academy of Film
Hong Kong Baptist University

Nadia Ali Muhammad Ali Charania
Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing
University of Michigan

Tiffany Chenneville
Professor and Chair of Psychology
University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Ga Young Chung
Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies
University of California, Davis

Volha Chykina
Postdoctoral Fellow at Donia Human Rights Center
University of Michigan

Darnell Cole
Associate Professor in Higher Education and Education Psychology and Co-Director of the Research Center for Education, Identity and Social Justice
University of Southern California

Nicole A. Cooke
Augusta Baker Endowed Chair in Childhood Literacy and Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science
University of South Carolina

Lucius Couloute
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Suffolk University

Jason Alix Coupet
Assistant Professor of Public Administration
North Carolina State University

Rebecca Covarrubias
Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty Director of the Student Success Equity Research Center, and Faculty Director of the UC Santa Cruz First-Generation Initiative
University of California, Santa Cruz

Ashley Elizabeth Cureton
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Education and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University

Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby
Professor of Educational Psychology and University Faculty Scholar and Associate Department Head in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Science
North Carolina State University

Jose Del Real Viramontes
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gregory L. Diggs-Yang
Research Scientist & Educational Equity Consultant at the Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (Department of Sociology) and Teaching Associate in the College of Education
University of Washington

Duygu Dincer
Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology
Istanbul Aydin University

Antonio Duran
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Technology
Auburn University

Danny Fitzgerald Ellis
Vice Chancellor Fellow for Research Diversity and Teaching Instructor
East Carolina University

Flora Farago
Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
Stephen F. Austin State University

Sarah Fox
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Human Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Elizabeth Galvez
Lecturer I at the Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, 2018–2019 Muschenheim Fellow, and Founder at Office for Example (e.g)
University of Michigan

Samuel Garcia, Jr.
Assistant Professor of Practice for STEM Education and NASA Education Specialist
Texas State University

Alesha Gayle
Senior Fellow in Literacy and Urban Education and Director of the Urban Teaching Residency
University of Pennsylvania

Ayeshas Ghazi
Lecturer in Social Work, Research Assistant in the School of Social Work Community Engagement, and Executive Director of American Citizens for Justice/Asian American Center for Justice
University of Michigan

Alexandrea Renee Golden
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Urban Education and the Department of Family Medicine
Cleveland State University and the MetroHealth System

Jonathan D. Gomez
Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies
San José State University

Warren K. Graham
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Field in the School of Social Welfare
SUNY Stony Brook University

Devon Lomes Graves
Research Fellow in the Success Center
Foundation for the California Community Colleges

Anne Gray Fischer
Assistant Professor of Historical Studies
University of Texas at Dallas

Jennifer Griffiths
Associate Professor of English
New York Institute of Technology

Nabih Haddad
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Rackham Institutional Research Office
University of Michigan

Aria S. Halliday
Assistant Professor of Africana Feminisms in the Department of Women's Studies
University of New Hampshire

Dorian Harrison
Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning
The Ohio State University at Newark

Lora Henderson
Postdoctoral Research Associate and Licensed Clinical Psychologist
University of Virginia

Julie C. Herbstrith
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Philosophy
Texas Woman's University

Yuridia Elizabeth Hernandez Osorio
Diversity & Inclusion Programs Coordinator
University of Portland

Tiffany Hollis
Assistant Professor in Foundations, Curriculum and Instruction
Coastal Carolina University

Jennifer Hsieh
LSA Collegiate Fellow in Anthropology
University of Michigan

Renee Hudson
Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature in the English Department
University of Massachusetts Boston

David Louis Humphrey
Diversity & Inclusion Officer in the School of Education and Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
University of Michigan

Andrea N. Hunt
Associate Professor in Sociology and Family Studies and Director of the Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion
University of North Alabama

Mostafa Hussein
LSA Collegiate Fellow in Judaic Studies
University of Michigan

Alexander A. Jendrusina
Postdoctoral Fellow in Michigan Medicine and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System Consortium
University of Michigan

Katherine Jensen
Assistant Professor in Sociology and International Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areum Jeong
Assistant Professor of Humanities and Writing
Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute

Katherine Ellen Jolly
Associate Professor of Voice and Opera Singer
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College
Diversity Consultant for the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Martinique K. Jones
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of North Texas

Seanna C. Leath
Assistant Professor of Community Psychology
University of Virginia

C. Aujean Lee
Assistant Professor in Regional and City Planning
University of Oklahoma

Josephine Mendoza Kershaw
Professor of Health Care Administration and Associate Dean for Health Sciences
The Christ College of Nursing & Health Sciences

Aziza Khazzoom
Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Indiana University Bloomington

Ungsan Kim
LSA Collegiate Fellow in Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan

Yana Kuchirko
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Madhumita Lahiri
Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Department of Film, Television, and Media
University of Michigan

David Thomas Lardier
Assistant Professor in Family and Child Studies and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of New Mexico

Jennifer Lee O'Brien
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology
University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Ruth María López
Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
University of Houston

Olga Panteleeva
Visiting Scholar in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Digital Studies Institute; and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
University of Michigan

Ana Martinez
Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance
Texas State University

Lisa M. Martinez
Professor of Sociology, Interim Faculty Associate in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Interim Director of The Latinx Center @ DU
University of Denver

Gloria Parra Martinez-Ramos
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Latina/o Studies Minor
Texas State University

Vani A. Mathur
Assistant Professor of Diversity Science and Well-Being in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Texas A&M University

Keon M. McGuire
Assistant Professor of Higher & Postsecondary Education and Faculty Affiliate in the School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University

Amy McMillan
Professor of Management
East Carolina University

Jasmine McNealy
Associate Professor in Telecommunication
University of Florida

Alan Meca
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Old Dominion University

Gabriel Joey Merrin
Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Texas Tech University

Breanca Merritt
Clinical Assistant Professor in the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Founding Director of the Center for Research on Inclusion and Social Policy
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Isha W. Metzger
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of The EMPOWER Lab
University of Georgia
Visiting Faculty in the School of Public Health
Yale University

David Mickey-Pabello
Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnoracial Relations in the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
Harvard University

Lauren Christine Mims
Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology
Ball State University

Adrienne Muldrow
Assistant Professor of Communication
East Carolina University

Raquel Muñiz
Assistant Professor of Law and Education Policy in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education in the Liaison in the Boston College Law School
Boston College

Mike Hoa Nguyen
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
University of Denver

Diane Sabenacio Nititham
Associate Professor of Sociology and Sociology Program Director
Murray State University

Angela Marie Novak
Assistant Professor in Elementary and Middle Grades Education and Academically and Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Coordinator
East Carolina University

Araceli Martinez Ortiz
Research Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Executive Director of the LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research
Texas State University

Young-Tack Oh
Michigan Mellon Design Fellow in Egalitarianism and the Metropolis and Lecturer in Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan

Becky Wai-Ling Packard
Professor of Psychology and Education
Mount Holyoke College

Shaista A. Patel
Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies
University of California, San Diego

J. Lorenzo Perillo
Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

Bruce Pietrykowski
Professor of Economics in the Social Sciences Department
University of Michigan-Dearborn

Luke J. Rapa
Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and Human Development
Clemson University

Lisa Reber
Research Fellow in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
University of Michigan

Mónica Russel y Rodríguez
Senior Lecturer in Latinx Studies and the Department of Anthropology and Assistant Provost of Diversity and Inclusion
Northwestern University

Siva priya Santhanam
Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences
Metropolitan State University of Denver

Minden B. Sexton
Women Veterans Program Coordinator at the Ann Arbor Veterans Healthcare System and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan

Evan N. Shenkin
Multicultural Pre-Professoriate Fellow in the Department of Sociology
University of Alaska, Anchorage

Deirdre A. Shires
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
Michigan State University

Michael R. Sladek
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Secondary Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education
Harvard University

Thomas N. Templin
Research Professor in the College of Nursing
Wayne State University

Miriam G. Valdovinos
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
University of Denver

Cindy Vang
Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Brenda Venezia
Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of English
California State University, Fresno

Paloma E. Villegas
Assistant Professor of Sociology
California State University San Bernardino

Francisco Javier Villegas
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Kalamazoo College

Brigitte Vittrup
Professor of Child Development and Assistant Chair in the Department of Human Development, Family Studies, & Counseling
Texas Woman's University

Edgar Franco Vivanco
Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and the Michigan Institute for Data Science
University of Michigan

Charity S. Watkins
Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work
North Carolina Central University

Daphne C. Watkins
Professor of Social Work and Director of the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Center for Health Equity Research and Training
University of Michigan

Damani Khary White-Lewis
Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
University of Maryland, College Park

Cameron Thomas Whitley
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Western Washington University

Brittany M. Williams
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
St. Cloud State University

John Andrew Williams III
Assistant Professor in Multicultural Education
Texas A&M University of College Station

Christina Wright Fields
Assistant Professor in the Department of Education
Marist College

Blair Rose Zaid
Lecturer in Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan

Robin Zheng
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Yale-NUS College

Corri Zoli
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the Research Institute for Security Policy & Law
Syracuse University