Diversity: Faculty and other academic personnel
Building the Pipeline for African American Faculty whose Research is Centered on Ameliorating the Disparately Negative Health Effects of Racial Trauma in Black Communities
UC Santa Barbara, 2021-2022
Project Principal Investigators
Alison Cerezo, PhD & Jeffrey Milem, PhD
Project Abstract
This project includes a comprehensive plan to recruit and hire two new professors whose research contributes to DEI, and specifically racial trauma in Black communities, in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education CCSP Department. This plan is contextualized in the recent establishment of the Healing Space, a clinical research hub for racial trauma, and the availability of URM faculty to serve as mentors. In this project, CCSP aims to:
- leverage campus and community partnerships to develop a mentoring network in CCSP and across campus, including graduate students in Year 1
- hire two Assistant Professors researching interventions for racial trauma in Year 2. CCSP will build on synergy that exists between the Healing Space and the growing diversity of graduate students and faculty to build a mentoring network that supports the socioemotional and research needs of Black scholarship, making UCSB a destination for health disparities research and training.