Category: Affiliated Diversity Scholar

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice

Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

eeckhaut@udel.edu

Biography

Dr. Mieke Eeckhaut is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She received her PhD in Sociology from Ghent University (Belgium), and completed a NICHD F32 postdoctoral fellowship at the California Center for Population Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research examines the social and health consequences of social stratification for the family, with a special focus on racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in the United States. Her work has appeared in such journals as Journal of Marriage and Family, Population Studies, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, European Sociological Review, Fertility & Sterility, International Migration Review, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Assistant Professor, English

Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

edwardsj@udel.edu

Biography

Jessica Edwards, Ph.D. has developed and taught courses in professional writing, critical race studies, and composition studies. Her scholarship considers ways to engage critical race theory, the intersections of race, racism, and power, in writing classrooms. Dr. Edwards was a Faculty Diversity Scholar in 2015 with the Center for Teaching, Assessment, and Learning at UD and her scholarship has appeared in Computers and Composition Online as well as the text Key Theoretical Frameworks for Teaching Technical Communication in the 21st Century.

Professor, Political Science and International Relations

Professor, Africana Studies

Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

teddavis@udel.edu

Biography

Theodore J. Davis, Jr., (Ph. D. Florida State University) is an professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He has a joint appointment with the Department of Africana Studies. He regularly teaches courses related to public policy, urban politics, race and politics, and the politics of poverty. He has taught courses in public administration, research methods, Introduction to Black American Studies and governance and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Davis current research focus include: 1) urban politics and the African-American community development, 2) the politics, inequality and educational outcomes, and 3) governance and poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of the book Black Politics Today: The Era of Socioeconomic Transition(Routledge 2012). Dr. Davis is currently working on a book project tentatively titled The Politics and Perils of Educational Disparities: The Pace of Blacks’ Educational Progress since 1980s. Dr. Davis has engaged in a variety of service activities that have contributed to the service missions of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, the Department of Africana Studies, the University of Delaware community, and the broader community.

Associate Professor, English

Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

edavis@udel.edu

Biography

Emily S. Davis is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware. Her research interests include genre, globalization, race, and gender, with articles published in the journals Camera Obscura, Genders, College Literature, Textual Practice, and various edited collections. Her first book, Rethinking the Romance Genre: Global Intimacies in Contemporary Literary and Visual Culture, appeared in 2013. Her current book project examines the ways in which creative writers, activists, and theorists from Africa and South Asia conceptualize human rights beyond a Western, nation-state based framework. At UD, she has been active in revising general education requirements such as the FYE/FYS and the Multicultural Requirement to strengthen the university’s intellectual engagement with diversity.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

jcloutier@psych.udel.eduBiography

Biography

​Jasmin Cloutier is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware. He received his PhD in Psychology and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, worked as a postdoctoral associate at Tufts University and M.I.T. He is broadly interested in social cognition and social neuroscience with an emphasis on research questions related to person perception, person evaluation, and impression formation. His current work focuses on how interracial contact and social status shapes the outcome of these processes.

Professor of Chemistry
Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

kbooksh@udel.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science
UD-ADVANCE, Research Director
Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

robina@udel.edu

Biography

​Dr. Robin O. Andreasen (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She earned her PhD in philosophy and specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, and in science and policy. A race and gender scholar, Dr. Andreasen is research director and co-PI for UD’s ADVANCE-IT grant.