Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania
About
Damani White-Lewis is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research agenda examines racial equity issues in faculty careers and contexts using theories and methods from organizational behavior and social psychology. He completed his PhD in higher education and organizational change at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was also a research analyst in the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI).
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 test which kinds of interventions positively impact how much DEI weighs in tenure and promotion decisions. These streams of research lead to developing and testing equity-minded interventions that improve decision-making contexts in faculty hiring, promotion and tenure, and retention.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Higher education, faculty careers, minoritized faculty, organizational behavior
