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About Virtual Visiting Scholars

The Virtual Visiting Scholars (VVS) program provides a unique opportunity for select scholars across disciplines to pursue research meta-analysis, synthesis, and big data curation on topics crucial to STEM faculty equity. VVS analyze existing research and data, synthesizing different, sometimes competing, perspectives, frameworks, metrics, and outcomes to offer new insights and applications to the broader community.

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Virtual Visiting Scholar

Each year, the ARC Network selects two to four Virtual Visiting Scholars to conduct research on existing or emerging themes from scholarly literature on intersectional gender equity in STEM workplaces.

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2024-2025 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Arielle Miller, PhE, PE
Research Scientist, CORE Futures Lab, Howard University
Focus Area:
(Collaboration) Bridging the Gap: A Meta-Synthesis on the Experiences and Retention of Black Women in Academic STEM Research Careers
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Kilan Ashad-Bishop, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Miami; Co-Founder, STEMNoire
Focus Area:
(Collaboration) Bridging the Gap: A Meta-Synthesis on the Experiences and Retention of Black Women in Academic STEM Research Careers
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Karen Colbert
General Education Department Chair, Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College
Focus Area:
Two-Eyed Seeing: Leveraging Tribal College Identity and STEM Culture to Understand Gender Equity
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire
Focus Area:
The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic
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Autumn Asher BlackDeer, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Denver
Focus Area:
Institutional Pushout of Women Faculty of Color in STEM: A Meta-Synthesis of Counterstories
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2023-2024 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Brooke Coley, PhD
Assistant Professor and Founding Executive Director at Center for RARE JUSTICE, Arizona State University
Focus Area:
Racing Against the Clock: A meta-analysis of publication timelines across STEM equity research in STEM education outlets
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Jessica Gold, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Northeastern University
Focus Area:
Bringing the people back in: a meta-analysis of equity work(ers) in academic institutions
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2022-2023 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Erin Winterrowd, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Regis University
Focus Area:
Academic Motherhood: A Mixed-method Review of the ‘Child Penalty’ for Women of Color in STEM
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Sue Rosser, PhD
Provost Emerita at San Francisco State University
Focus Area:
Towards a Better Understanding of the Experiences of FB/FT STEM Faculty: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-synthesis of the Literature through Intersectional Lenses of Gender and Race/Ethnicity
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2021-2022 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Rodica Lisnic, PhD
Sociologist, Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Arkansas
Focus Area:
Strategies of Persistence among Women of Color in STEM: A Meta-Ethnography of Qualitative Findings
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Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc
Health Scientist and Journalist
Focus Area:
Industry-Academia Partnerships in STEM: A Meta-Synthesis of Literature and Evidence Gaps on Gender and Gender Intersectionality
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Dawn Culpepper, PhD
Associate Director and an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence
Focus Area:
Allies, Bystanders, or Advocates: Defining, Interrogating, and Implementing Faculty Development Programs to Mitigate Bias in the Academic Workplace
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2020-2021 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Ramon Goings, EdD
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Focus Area:
Examining How Race/Ethnicity and Gender is Explored in Research on STEM Contingent Faculty
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Ramón Barthelemy, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Utah in Salt Lake City
Focus Area:
LGBT+ Faculty and Students in STEM: Policies to Support Success and Inclusion
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Kimberly Scott, EdD
Professor, Arizona State University (ASU), Founding Executive Director, Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology
Focus Area:
Analysis of Funding Trends Addressing Girls/Women of Color and STEM: An Intersectional Approach
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Joya Misra, PhD
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Focus Area:
Gender, Intersectionality, Workload and Leadership in STEM Departments
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2019-2020 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Teresa Nelson, PhD
Founder and Managing Principal, Diversity North Group
Focus Area:
Academic Entrepreneurship in STEM: A Meta-Synthesis on the Intersection of Gender
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Beth Mitchneck, PhD
Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
Focus Area:
Synthesizing Research on Gender Biases and Intersectionality Citation Analysis and Practices
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Allison Mattheis, PhD
Associate Professor, California State University Los Angeles
Focus Area:
An integrative intersectional meta-analysis of understandings of gender in STEM higher education research
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2018-2019 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Ethel Mickey, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Massachusetts Amherst ADVANCE
Focus Area:
Implications for Career Success Resulting from STEM Faculty Networks
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Cara Margherio, PhD
Assistant Director of the University of Washington Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity
Focus Area:
Centering Women Faculty of Color in a Meta-Synthesis of Research on Mentoring
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Insights From the Virtual Visiting Scholars

WEPAN Announces 2023 Virtual Visiting Scholars Dedicated to Researching STEM Equity

The Sixth Cohort of Researchers to Fuel Investigations for ARC Network
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Allies, Bystanders, or Advocates

Cohort 4
The ARC Network welcomed Cohort 4 Virtual Visiting Scholar Dr. Dawn Culpepper to present her work on how to develop, implement, and study intersectionally-minded bystander engagement and faculty development programs to mitigate bias in the academic workplace.
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Dawn Culpepper Surveys Faculty Development Programs to Mitigate Bias in the Academic Workplace

Cohort 4
Merely raising individual awareness of bias can reinforce, rather than mitigate, its impact in the academic workplace.
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Funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program, Awards HRD-2121468 and HRD-1740860, the ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network seeks to achieve gender equity for faculty in higher education science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. As the STEM equity brain trust, the ARC Network recognizes the achievements made so far while producing new perspectives, methods and interventions with an intersectional, intentional and inclusive lens. The leading champion in North America to propel the inclusion of women in the field of engineering, the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN), serves as the backbone organization of the ARC Network.
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