Non-OSU Participants 

Lei Guo

Associate Professor
Department of Physics

College of Arts, Sciences & Education

FIU ADVANCE Bystander Leadership Facilitator

FIU ADVANCE STRIDE and Diversity Advocate

Florida International University

[email protected]

https://case.fiu.edu/about/directory/people/leguo.html

https://advance.fiu.edu/index.html

Dr. Guo’s main research interest is nuclear physics using electromagnetic probes. I am involved in the CLAS and GLUEX experiment at Jefferson Lab, located in Newport News, Virginia. I have also participated in the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC at BNL), and E906 experiment at Fermi Lab near Chicago.

 

Kirsten Wood

Associate Professor
Department of History

Steven J, Green School of International & Public Affairs

FIU ADVANCE Faculty Fellow

Florida International University

[email protected]

https://history.fiu.edu/people-1/people/kirsten-wood/

https://advance.fiu.edu/index.html

Professor Wood is a specialist in the history of the Early American Republic. Her works span many subfields, including gender and women's history, the history of the American South and slavery, economic history, and politics and political culture. Her Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (2004) reinterprets the political construct of mastery in the southeastern United States in light of slaveholding widows' distinctive legal, economic, and social position as "masters" of slaveholding households. Her current book manuscript, "At the Crossroads," argues that in contrast to the temperance narrative which depicted taverns as lesions on the republic, taverns and their keepers played pivotal roles in the "transportation revolution," the "market revolution," and the evolution of party politics in the early republic. Her teaching interests stretch back into the colonial period and encompass the history of slavery in and beyond North America, women's and gender history, social history, and courses centered on the Early Republic.

 

M. Leonor Cadena

Full Professor
Anthropology

Social Sciences Division

Fullerton College

Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow, NOCCCD

[email protected]

https://socsci.fullcoll.edu/anthropology/faculty/

https://www.nocccd.edu/our-team
Dr. Cadena has been teaching anthropology for over 15 years and is a professor of anthropology at Fullerton College. She has also taught Cultural Diversity Competence classes in the Human Services department at CSU, Fullerton for almost two decades. Currently she serves as one of the Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellow and as Vice President of the United Faculty chapter at the NOCCCD. Dr. Cadena earned a master’s degree and a doctorate in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and a master’s in Anthropology from CSU, Fullerton. For the past 20 years, her research focus has been indigenous rights movements, tourism, and media studies. In more recent years, her research has centered in issues of inequality in education, including the hidden curriculum, critical pedagogy, and challenging the existing opportunity gap. Currently, she is working on trainings on pluralism and inclusion as part of cultural diversity competence.


Tory Byington

Assistant Dean
Professional Development and Student Opportunities

Graduate School

University of Oregon

ADVANCE PAID Grant Co-PI, 2013-2017

Washington State University

[email protected]
 

https://gradschool.uoregon.edu/node/1821

https://advance.wsu.edu/measuringpartnerpolicyimpacts/

Throughout my 30 year career I have been fortunate to serve in a number of higher education roles and on numerous community and institutional boards and commissions. These opportunities have enabled me to develop a strong understanding of the needs of academic institutions, their constituents, and offer in-depth knowledge and experience in the planning, development, implementation and assessment of strategic programs which enhance graduate student inclusion, retention, development and degree attainment while also building strong programmatic infrastructure.  My work as a leader enables faculty, staff and students to participate equitably and collaboratively towards visions of community excellence.  The chance to contribute to an inclusive and equitable educational experience based on the difference, power, and privilege model is an opportunity I welcome.


Jennifer Jabson

Associate Professor
Department of Public Health

College of Education, Health, and Human Services

University of Tennessee

[email protected]

https://publichealth.utk.edu/people/jabson/

My name is Jennifer Jabson (she/her/hers) and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Tennessee. I hold scientific expertise in LGBT health and health disparities. Since completing my formal academic doctoral training (in 2010) I have made scholarly research contributions in the areas of LGBT health disparities including, but not limited to, documenting biological indicators of discrimination and stigma among LGBT people, implementing innovative behavioral interventions for LGBT people living in Tennessee, documenting food insecurity among transgender people, and working with healthcare organizations to provide affirming care for LGBT patients. At the University of Tennessee, I have held leadership roles concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion at multiple levels of the university and across campus. I led the University of Tennessee’s Commission for LGBT People, I have served on university-level advisory boards and committees, and I co-chaired my department’s Equity and Diversity Committee.


Amena Anderson

Visiting Assistant Professor, Leadership Studies
UWVADVANCE Master Facilitator

West Virginia University

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https://leadershipstudies.wvu.edu/faculty-staff

https://advance.wvu.edu/about/staff

Dr. Anderson is a seasoned educational leader with extensive experience in both public and private higher education and state-level educational programming. Dr. Anderson's research interests center on the development and effectiveness of academic change agents for social justice, with particular emphasis on dominant group engagement in social justice work.  Her dissertation research explored Men Faculty Engagement in Gender Equity Work in STEM via the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ADVANCE initiative.

 

Malayna Bernstein

Assistant Professor
Director, Learning Sciences Programs

UWVADVANCE Master Facilitator

Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development

College of Education and Human Services

West Virginia University

[email protected]

https://lshd.wvu.edu/faculty-staff/bernstein
 

https://advance.wvu.edu/about/staff
 

Dr. Malayna Bernstein directs the learning sciences programs and co-directs the undergraduate educational psychology program in the Department of Learning Sciences & Human Development at West Virginia University.  She teaches courses in educational psychology, qualitative research methods, and English education. Her research examines the cognitive and cultural dimensions of learning, especially in the contexts of teacher and university instructor learning. She facilitates a range of professional development experiences for teachers and faculty, from work with K-12 teachers to graduate students and university faculty. Since 2017, she has served on the WVU ADVANCE team.

 

Christine Rittenour

Associate Professor
Coordinator, M.A. Theory and Research Program

Faculty Associate, Women’s and Gender Studies

Department of Communication Studies

West Virginia University

[email protected]

https://communicationstudies.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory...

Dr. Christine Rittenour researches the ways that identity and communication interest. Commonly focusing on identity via a social identity/categorization lens, she is intrigued by how people perceive and communicate surrounding "difference." Given family's power as the first and foremost teacher of identity, Dr. Rittenour address difference within the potential "ultimate ingroup" of family. She also assesses how families teach each other to think about and respond to difference. Hailing from the Communication Studies discipline, scholars and teachers, with publications on the following topics: feminism, ageism, racial identity, generativity, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, and various inclusive-to-exclusive communication behaviors both within and outside of the family. She is delighted to be at this training.

 

Rachelle DeCoste

Associate Professor
Mathematics

Wheaton College, MA

[email protected]

https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/faculty-directory/rachelle-c-decoste/

I have been at Wheaton College for 12 years after a position as a research fellow at the United States Military Academy, West Point and the US Soldier Research Center.  I am a mathematician who enjoys research and teaching but who is also passionate about ideas of diversity and inclusion in the math, and broader STEM community.  I have founded and/or worked on several initiatives aimed at encouraging and supporting women in mathematics and STEM.  These include founding the Career Mentoring Workshop for Women in Math for women finishing their PhDs in mathematics and co-founding the Wheaton College Summit for Women in STEM which is a 1-day conference aimed at connecting undergraduates and STEM professionals from all over New England.  I am also the Director of the Mathematical Association of America's Tensor Grants for Women and Girls program. I enjoy spending time and traveling with my family, which consists of my husband and my 2 children.

 


Peony Fhagen

Associate Provost of Diversity and Faculty Development
Associate Professor

Psychology

Wheaton College, MA

[email protected]

https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/faculty-directory/peony-fhagen-smith/

I am currently serving my institution as Associate Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, which is a new position. I am the first to serve in this role; having served for just about a year. As part of this role, I am the faculty Title IX officer and also the Faculty Affirmative Action Officer.   In addition, I am an Associate Professor of Psychology and my areas of expertise are Adolescent Development and Multicultural Psychology.  My current scholarship centers on cultural identity development among faculty, staff, and students in the context of higher education institutions, specifically predominantly white small liberal arts schools.  I am also co-authoring a Multicultural Psychology textbook. Finally, I have supervised several student honors theses and independent studies on diversity topics such as sexual orientation colorblindness, context analysis of institutional statements about diversity, body image among Latinas, dyslexic identity development, and Muslim immigrant women's acculturation experiences.