Title: Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, University of Oklahoma
Education: B.A., sociology of education and English literature, Swarthmore College; M.A., Higher Education and Organizational Change Division, University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., Higher Education and Organizational Change Division, University of California, Los Angeles
Age: 36
Mentors: Dr. Walter R. Allen, advisor and co-chair, University of California, Los Angeles; Dr. C. Keith Harrison, co-chaired dissertation, University of Central Florida
Words of encouragement/wisdom: “Listen to others and seek advice, but also listen to your intuition. Cultivate your understanding of which fights matter and learn how to effectively navigate those fights in your context.”
For a brief period of time when she was very little, Dr. Siduri Haslerig’s parents fostered youth in a group home, “the stop before juvie,” says Haslerig. While they stopped fostering when Haslerig was six, the memory of institutional inequity stuck with her.
