2021 STRIDE Faculty Fellows Announced

Amel Ahmed, associate provost for equity and inclusion, is pleased to welcome a cohort of 24 faculty to the STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program, a new initiative aimed at advancing faculty diversity at UMass Amherst.

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This new fellowship program is designed to ensure that the STRIDE Faculty Recruitment Workshops continue to be faculty centered and faculty driven, examining challenges of recruitment in different contexts. Fellows have a one-year appointment, with the goal of continued engagement either through STRIDE or other recruitment initiatives developed during the fellowship year.

The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program is sponsored by the Provost’s office and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and complements other efforts to support faculty diversity, harnessing the knowledge and experience of our faculty to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in recruitment.

2021 STRIDE Faculty Fellows:

Gabrielle Abelard - assistant professor, nursing, psychiatric mental health

Lynn Adler - professor, biology

Michael Becker - associate professor, linguistics

Maria José Botelho - associate professor, teacher education and curriculum studies

Elizabeth Brabec - professor, landscape architecture and regional planning

Sergio Brena - professor, civil and environmental engineering

Molly Christie Gonzalez - assistant professor, dance

Carey Clouse - associate professor, architecture

Kirby Deater-Deckard - professor, psychological and brain sciences

Isabel Espinal - librarian, research services, W.E.B. Du Bois Library

Christiane Healey - senior lecturer, biology

Jonathan Hulting-Cohen - assistant professor, music

Cathal Kearney - assistant professor, biomedical engineering

Lisa Komoroske - assistant professor, environmental conservation

Agustin Lao-Montes - associate professor, sociology

Cristiano Mazzei - senior lecturer ii, languages, literatures, and cultures

Alexandra Pope - associate professor, astronomy

Lisa Sanders - professor, psychological and brain sciences

Monika Schmitter - associate professor and department chair, history of art

Thomas St. Laurent - senior lecturer and undergraduate program director, kinesiology

Cheryl Swanier - senior lecturer ii, computer science

K.C. Nat Turner - associate professor, teacher education and curriculum studies

Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji - associate professor, economics

Paige Warren - professor, environmental conservation