Assistant Professor in Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State University
About
Originally, from Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Stitt Richardson is currently an assistant professor of Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State University where she is the principal investigator of the Achievement, Identity, Motivation, & Success (A.I.M.S.) undergraduate research lab. She is also a career mentor and advisor to undergraduate psychology majors as they explore their career identities. Recently, Dr. Stitt Richardson, along with four other PIs, were awarded an NSF HBCU-UP Broadening Participation Research Center grant. Their center is the Center for the Development of Identity and Motivation of African American Students in STEM.
Current Work:
Dr. Stitt Richardson is an educational psychologist, and qualitative researcher, who applies a Black Feminist lens to study the achievement, identity, motivation, and success of Black women in STEM and an intersectional researcher who seeks to further the educational attainment of Black students.
Related to my STEM work, she is working through our Center for the Development of Identity and Motivation of African American Students in STEM to examine the nature of identity-based motivation among African American undergraduates in STEM at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
Regarding the educational attainment of Black students, she is currently studying narrative identity development among Black women college athletes.
Research Area Keyword(s):
STEM; Black women; intersectionality; engineering; undergraduates
