Join the AAASE community for its third annual lunch and learn series from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Alamance 302B (Boyd Conference Room).
African & African-American Studies in collaboration with The CREDE is thrilled to host Associate Professor and University Faculty Scholar, Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, PhD of Educational Psychology, Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at NC State University on Wednesday, November 18th. Dr. DeCuir-Gunby will be the featured speaker for both the November AAASE Author-of-the-Month lecture series and The CREDE’s monthly Race-nicity series. This will be the last AAASE Author-of-the-Month speaker for the fall semester.
Dr. DeCuir-Gunby’s talk is titled, The Experiences of African Americans in Educational Contexts: An Exploration of Race, Racial Identity, & Racial Microaggressions
This presentation will showcase a series of studies that focus on race, racial identity, and racial microaggressions in a variety of contexts. Implications will be provided on how to address racial microaggressions within school contexts, including predominately White institutions. Future research on racial microaggressions will also be discussed.
The event is scheduled for Alamance 302B (12:15-1:15). If it is necessary to move to a larger room, we will notify all registrants by email. Lunch will be provided for all participants who RSVP. Please register online no later than Monday (11/16) so that we may plan accordingly. Special thanks to Prudence Layne for her work and guidance on this event. We are looking forward to this critical conversation!
About Jessica DeCuir-Gunby
Dr. Jessica DeCuir-Gunby is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences at NC State University. She serves as a faculty mentor with the multidisciplinary and inter-institutional Center for Developmental Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also an associate editor for the American Educational Research Journal. In 2012, DeCuir-Gunby was inducted into the NC State University Academy of Outstanding Teachers and received the NC State University Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award. In addition, she was recently awarded the University of Georgia’s College of Education 2015 Outstanding Educator Award. This award is designed to recognize alumni’s contributions to scholarship and leadership in education.
DeCuir-Gunby’s research interests include race and racial identity development, critical race theory, mixed methods research, and emotions in education. She recently served as Co-PI on two National Science Foundation funded grants, totaling over $4.3 million: Nurturing Mathematics Dreamkeepers (DRK-12 Grant) and Peer Mentoring Summits for Women Engineering Faculty of Color (ADVANCE Leadership Award Grant). Both grants used mixed methods approaches, were multidisciplinary, and explored important issues in diversity and STEM. Her work has been featured in top-tier journals such as Educational Psychologist, Educational Researcher, and Review of Educational Research, among others. DeCuir-Gunby is currently finishing three book projects. The first book discusses the results of a multi-year, mixed methods teacher professional development study that merged critical multiculturalism and mathematics. The second book is an edited collection that explores the importance of examining race and ethnicity in the study of motivation in education. The third book discusses and demonstrates how to create a mixed methods research proposal.