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Heather McCambly
Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Heather McCambly is a mixed-methods, interdisciplinary scholar of higher education. She also studies the role of organizations in (re)producing systemic, racial inequalities. She draws on a range of analytic and interpretive methods to study the influence of aspiring change agents on institutionalized racial inequities in higher education practice and policy. She does this work with a commitment to producing knowledge that can help us, collectively, build alternative pathways toward just futures for Black, brown, indigenous, and low-income students and institutions over time. Constructs central to her work include racialized organizations, institutional persistence and change, racial frames, political development and racial backlash, and organizational sensemaking.
Education
- Ph.D., Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
- M.A., Educational Leadership & Policy, Portland State University
- B.A., Communication Studies, Portland State University
- B.A., Art History, Portland State University
- General Studies (transferred), Portland Community College
Research Areas
- College access for non-traditional, low-income and racial and ethnic minority students