Faculty and Center Fellows
The NCID is proud to welcome its fourth cohort of Faculty and Center Fellows into its expanding community of stakeholders. In both the Faculty and Center Fellows programs, candidates apply for competitive “venture fund” awards to support diversity-related projects that align with the NCID’s eight core priority areas and offer potential to become national exemplars.
Read more about the RFP cycle, which occurs each winter.
Faculty Fellows, who hold regular appointments in relevant instructional and research units of the university, include instructional faculty, lecturers, research scientists/professors, librarians, curators, and archivists. Center Fellows may include external partners who have demonstrated exemplary commitment to the NCID mission as policy experts, leaders within major social institutions, artists, grassroots community organizers, or directors of non-profit organizations.
Both Faculty and Center Fellows remain actively involved in the NCID community beyond their official term-limited funding. In addition to participating in NCID working groups and programmatic activities, they often function as ambassadors in their home units or organizations, playing pivotal roles in the development of viable NCID campus and external partnerships.
2009-2010 COHORT OF FACULTY FELLOWS
Joseph Gone, Assistant Professor, Psychology
"Culture, Mental Health, and Traditional Healing in native American Communities."
Joseph Gone's homepage
Joseph Gone's bio
Project description (PDF)
Kent Murray, Professor, Geology and Environmental Science
"The Delray Initiative"
Kent Murray's profile
Project description (PDF)
2008-2009 COHORT OF FACULTY AND CENTER FELLOWS
To review project descriptions for this group of awardees, please read the University Record article, “National Diversity Center Spotlights Innovation."
Robert Jagers, Associate Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology
"An Initial Evaluation of Urban Youth Leadership Development Efforts at YouthVille Detroit"
Robert Jagers' profile
Project description (PDF)
Anna Kirkland, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Political Science
"The Diversity Essay as Citizenship Preparation"
Anna Kirkland's homepage
Project description (PDF)
Michael R. Woodford, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
"Understanding, Support, and Action: Comprehensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Ally Development— A Program to Recreate and Transform Ally Training Programs"
Michael Woodford's profile
Project description (PDF)
Sonya R. Miller, Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Medical Education
"Individuals with Disabilities, Paving the Pathway towards Better Healthcare"
Terri Sarris, Senior Lecturer, Screen Arts and Cultures
"The EFEX Project: Encouraging the Filmmaking Experience"
Terri Sarris's homepage
EFEX Project website
Project description (PDF)
Sultan Sharrief, Project Coordinator
"The EFEX Project: Encouraging the Filmmaking Experience"
2007-2008 COHORT OF FACULTY AND CENTER FELLOWS
To review project descriptions for this cohort of awardees, please read the University Record article, "New Round of NCID-funded Projects Truly Diverse."
Elizabeth Cole, Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Psychology
"How Do Diversity-Themed Courses Make Their Impact on Students?" Characteristics of Courses and Students that Predict Attitudinal and Behavioral Change"
Elizabeth Cole's homepage
Victoria Kovari, Community Practitioner and Social Activist in Detroit
(with Greg Markus and Richard Bernstein, Professors of Political Science)
"Harriet Tubman Institute for Organizer Recruitment and Development"
Interview with Victoria Kovari
Thoughts from Victoria Kovari
Stephanie Rowley, Associate Professor, Psychology
"Parenting in the Gap: The Effects of Awareness of the Achievement Gap on Parenting in African-American and Latino Parents of Middle Schoolers"
Stephanie Rowley's profile
Stephanie Rowley's lab website
Terri Sarris, Senior Lecturer, Screen Arts and Cultures
Sultan Sharrief, Community Practitioner
(with Larry Gant, Professor of Social Work)
"Developing the EFEX Project (SAC 404: Collaborations in Media-Community Filmmaking) as a Model for Community Engagement and Pathways to Diversity"
EFEX Project website
Terri Sarris's homepage
Larry Gant's homepage
Denise Sekaquaptewa, Associate Professor, Psychology
"Identifying Environmental Factors that Improve Educational Climates for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math"
Denise Sekaquaptewa's profile
2006-2007 COHORT OF FACULTY AND CENTER FELLOWS
To review project descriptions for this cohort of awardees, please read the University Record article, "National Center Seeks Diversity Projects, Practitioners."
Deborah Faye Carter, Associate Professor, Education, and Director of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education
"The Transition to College and Early College Experiences of Students"
Deborah Carter's profile
Rosario Ceballo, Associate Professor, Psychology and Women's Studies
"Successful Parenting Strategies in Latino Families: Accounting for Culture and Context"
Summary of Progress (PDF)
Gregory Markus, Professor, Political Science
"Collaboration Between the University of Michigan and the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES) to Advance Diversity and Social Justice" MOSES website
Summary of Progress (PDF)
Greg Markus's homepage
Ian Robinson, Lecturer IV, Sociology, and Assistant Research Scientist, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations
(with Community Practitioner Elena Herrada, Director of Centro Obrero)
"Developing an Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Worker's Center"
Summary of Progress (PDF)
Ian Robinson's homepage
Washtenaw County Workers' Center website
Detroit Metro Times feature on Elena Herrada
Centro Obrero website
Antonia Villarruel, Professor, Nursing
"Community-University Partnerships to Address Health Disparities"
Antonia Villarruel's profile
2006 INAUGURAL COHORT OF FACULTY FELLOWS
To review project descriptions for this cohort of fellows, please read the University Record article, "National Center for Institutional Diversity Names Fellows."
Charter Senior Fellow
Barry Checkoway, NCID Senior Faculty Associate, Professor of Social Work, Professor of Urban Planning, and Director of Youth Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity in Metropolitan Detroit
Barry Checkoway's profile
Youth Dialogues
Tabbye Chavous, Associate Professor, Psychology, and Co-Chair of the Combined Program in Education and Psychology
"Enhancing Our Ability to Understand and Address Educational Disparities: A Proposal from the Social Justice Initiative Committee of the U-M School of Education"
Tabbye Chavous's profile
Social Justice Initiative Committee, School of Education
Derek Griffith, Assistant Research Scientist, Health Behavior and Health Education, and Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH)
"Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: The Intersection of Professional Development and Professional Practice"
Derek Griffith's profile
"Future Findings: Racism's Toll on Health"
Nesha Haniff, Senior Lecturer, Women's Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies
"Developing an HIV/AIDS Education Model for Black Communities in the United States and Beyond"
Pedagogy of Action in South Africa blog (by Ashley Issa)
Keeping the Promise: The Pedagogy of Action (1.3MB pdf)
Jane Hassinger Lecturer IV, Women's Studies and Psychology
and Mark Creekmore, Lecturer II, Psychology, and Associate Research Scientist, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
"Expanding the Work of Women in Cooperatives: South African and U.S. Perspectives (WiCSA)"
Jane Hassinger's profile
Michael McQuaid, Assistant Professor, School of Information
"Diversity Kaleidoscope: An Online Semantic Visualization of How American Universities Think and Talk about Diversity"
Mick McQuaid's profile