Tag: 2021 Emerging Scholars

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Krystal L. Williams

By her own account, Dr. Krystal L. Williams admittedly took an “indirect route” to her post as an assistant professor in the College of Education at The University of Alabama.

January 29, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Zora J Murff

With a focus on conveying anti-Black violence through photographs, Zora J Murff’s work is inspired by how images function as social objects. Some of his projects have focused on the juvenile criminal justice system, redlining in North Omaha and points of extreme anti-Black violence.

January 29, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Antonio L. Ellis

Although he has earned five degrees, authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and books and is currently scholar-in-residence and director of the Institute on Education Equity and Justice at American University, Dr. Antonio Ellis considers his most meaningful accomplishment his graduation from high school. K-12 was his toughest challenge.

January 28, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Kendrick B. Davis

Relatively new to a full-time career in academe, Dr. Kendrick B. Davis was named chief research officer and associate professor of research at the University of Southern California’s (USC) Race and Equity Center in November. The appointment brings Davis’ work — particularly in the arena of public policy as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) — full circle.

January 28, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Stephanie H. Cook

Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, Dr. Stephanie H. Cook integrates the study of attachment theory, minority stress and health risk behaviors among young sexual minority men of color.

January 26, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Cynthia Wang

Dr. Cynthia Wang was in Hong Kong looking for a gay bar in 2009. It wasn’t easy. She found herself scouring old Yahoo groups from the 1990s, going to places listed only to find they were gone.

January 26, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Eric L. Piza

As public safety and community well-being come under scrutiny, the scholarship of Dr. Eric L. Piza, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, provides insight into policing and alternative approaches to public safety as well as evidence-based solutions.

January 22, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Soua Xiong

As a child of Vietnam War refugees, Dr. Soua Xiong always wanted to make his parents proud. To do so, he sought the route of higher education in hopes of being able to financially support his family.

January 22, 2021

2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Jameson D. Lopez

Growing up, Dr. Jameson D. Lopez, or “JD” as he prefers to be called, was no stranger to higher education. His mother — Belinda Lopez — was a longtime faculty member at American Indian College and his father, the Reverend Jim Lopez, was the school’s dean of students who later became the president.

January 20, 2021

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