Overview
Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA)
This transdisciplinary hub of research, discovery and teaching activities will center on elevating and understanding structural barriers and forms of resilience that black women and girls experience across various social contexts in society, and how intersectional interventions might be created to expand opportunities and increase pathways to success. The program’s focus on black women’s and girls’ voices, perspectives and social experiences shifts this crucial population from the margins to the center. By creating, evaluating and synthesizing cutting-edge scholarship, this initiative will build upon and significantly expand current efforts happening around the country to position Vanderbilt as a world leader.
Faculty Participants
Lead Faculty in bold
Peabody College
- Nicole Joseph, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
College of Arts & Science
- Christy Erving, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Rena Robinson, Associate Professor of Chemistry
- Claudine Taaffe, Senior Lecturer in African American and Diaspora Studies
Divinity School
- Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of Ethics and Society
- Phillis Sheppard, Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture
- Emilie Townes, Professor of Ethics and Society; Divinity School Dean
Law School
- Karla McKanders, Clinical Professor of Law
Photo credit:
Taylor Moore