Associate Dean, School of Education & Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy
About
Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is a professor in Higher Education and Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, & Strategic Partnerships in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also the Executive Director of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC). Previously Zamani-Gallaher served as the Graduate College Associate Dean, Associate Head of Education, Policy, Organization & Leadership, and Director of the Office for Community College Research & Leadership at Illinois.
Current Work:
Dr. Zamani-Gallaher’s teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, and women in leadership.
Dr. Zamani-Gallaher is a 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow and the 2022 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education. She received 2021 Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Faculty of the Year Award at Illinois and was the College of Education 2020 Distinguished Senior Scholar Awardee at Illinois. In 2019, she was awarded by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Community College Research and Scholarship Award and that same year the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) Transfer Catalyst Award.
In 2018, she was recognized with the Senior Scholar Award from the Association of College Personnel Administrators (ACPA) - College Educators International and the Founder's Service Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation (CEP). Zamani-Gallaher was the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) 2017 Senior Scholar Award recipient, also is an ACPA Diamond Honored (2017). She's the recipient of the 2009 Mildred B. Garcia Senior Exemplary Scholar Award from the of ASHE-CEP. Zamani-Gallaher is a past president of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (2013-2014) an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges and served as Director of Research and Scholarship for ACPA (2015-2018).
Research Area Keyword(s):
community colleges, postsecondary pathways, racial equity, student development, access policy
