Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park
About
Damani White-Lewis is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education. His research agenda examines racial equity issues in faculty careers, STEM departments, and the academic enterprise at large. 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 plans to use this research as the backdrop for future intervention- and evaluation-based research, creating practical solutions that make faculty hiring, and other aspects of faculty careers, more equitable.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Higher education, faculty careers, minoritized faculty, organizational behavior