Student Experience Research Network’s Midcareer Fellows Program supports a community of 15 fellows in collectively bridging research on the structures (i.e., practices, policies, and norms) that shape students’ experience of feeling respected as valued people and thinkers in school with current policy topics. The program is funded through grants from the Bezos Family Foundation and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and is designed for midcareer faculty who identify as a member of one or more minoritized groups in the academy and who conduct equity-centered (e.g., liberatory or participatory, asset-based, anti-racist) empirical research on student experience.
Fellows are applying their leadership, vision, and research lens in service of constructing new narratives about federal and state policy topics that strategically target one or more policy intermediary audiences – a powerful mechanism for shifting how issues are understood and responded to within policy. Over the course of the fellowship, they will advance their knowledge about policymaking and how research is taken up in policy, provide input that influences the construction of the fellowship, network with colleagues who bridge research and policy, and develop translational and scholarly projects that target academic and policy audiences.
2021-2022 ADVISORS AND LEADERSHIP
SAPNA CHERYAN
University of Washington AdvisorTHOMAS DEE
Stanford University AdvisorMICHAL KURLAENDER
University of California, Davis AdvisorBETHANY LITTLE
EducationCounsel AdvisorMARY MURPHY
Indiana University AdvisorNA’ILAH SUAD NASIR
The Spencer Foundation AdvisorKAREN PITTMAN
Knowledge to Power Catalysts AdvisorSHANETTE PORTER
Student Experience Research Network Fellowship DirectorVIVIAN TSENG
William T. Grant Foundation Advisor2021-2022 FELLOWS
NOLAN L. CABRERA
University of ArizonaREBECCA COVARRUBIAS
University of California, Santa CruzMARCELA G. CUELLAR
University of California, DavisGINA ANN GARCIA
University of PittsburghCONRA GIST
University of HoustonTEHIA STARKER GLASS
University of North Carolina at CharlotteELAN HOPE
North Carolina State UniversityUMA M. JAYAKUMAR
University of California, RiversideCHRISTOPHER C. JETT
University of West GeorgiaAUDREY LUCERO
University of OregonXIAOXIA NEWTON
University of North Carolina at CharlotteLARA PEREZ-FELKNER
Florida State UniversityYOLANDA SEALEY-RUIZ
Columbia UniversitySOPHIE TRAWALTER
University of VirginiaCHEZARE A. WARREN
Vanderbilt UniversityFor questions about the SERN Midcareer Fellows Program, contact the SERN Research Team at research@studentexperiencenetwork.org