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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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2021 -2022 Virtual Visiting Scholars

Meet Cohort 4

Join us as we welcome Drs. Rodica Lisnic, Dawn Culpepper, and Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup to discuss their VVS projects! Scroll down to learn more about our speakers and learn about our program.

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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

Professor, Simmons University (Professor) and Research Director, MIT Innovation Initiative

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

Analysis of Funding Trends Addressing Girls/Women of Color and STEM: An Intersectional Approach

Cohort 3

The ARC Network welcomed Cohort 3 Virtual Visiting Scholar (VVS) Dr. Kimberly Scott to present her work analyzing funding trends targeting girls/women of color and STEM, applying intersectionality as an analytical strategy.

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LGBT+ Faculty and Students in STEM: Policies to Support Success and Inclusion

Cohort 3

The ARC Network welcomed Cohort 3 Virtual Visiting Scholar (VVS) Dr. Ramón Barthelemy to present his work synthesizing research on experiences and perspectives of gender and sexual minority persons in STEM.

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Gender, Intersectionality, Workload and Leadership in STEM Departments

Cohort 3

The ARC Network welcomed Cohort 3 Virtual Visiting Scholar Dr. Joya Misra to present her work focusing on impacts of intersectional identity on and inclusion in decision-making and leadership with additional emphasis on retention and career advancement of faculty.

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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.