The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program provides UMass Amherst faculty with the opportunity to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in faculty recruitment.
Through the fellows program, we wish to ensure that the STRIDE (Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversity and Excellence) Faculty Recruitment Workshops continue to be faculty centered and faculty driven, examining challenges of recruitment in different contexts. This will be a one year program, with the goal of continued engagement either through STRIDE or other recruitment initiatives developed during the fellowship year. We aim to select a cohort of faculty representing the range of diversity on our campus. No prior experience with STRIDE is necessary, only a commitment to promoting faculty diversity.
The STRIDE Faculty Fellowship Program is sponsored by the Office of the Provost 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.
2024-2025 STRIDE Faculty Fellows:
Steve Acquah – Associate Research Professor, Chemistry; Digital Media Lab Coordinator, W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Lynn Adler – Professor, Biology
Lara Al-Hariri – Senior Lecturer II, Chemistry
Theresa Austin – Professor, Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
María Barbón – Professor, Comparative Literature
Michael Becker – Associate Professor, Linguistics
Elizabeth Brabec – Professor, Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning
Adena Calden – Senior Lecturer II, Mathematics and Statistics
Soonkyu Chung – Associate Professor, Nutrition
Tim Cook – Research Associate Professor and Lecturer, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences
Lorraine Cordeiro – Professor, Nutrition
Laura Francis – Senior Lecturer II, Biology
Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji – Associate Professor, Economics
Chaitra Gopalappa – Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Keisha Green – Associate Professor, Teacher Education and Curriculum Instruction
Aline Gubrium – Professor, Health Promotion and Policy
Sanjiv Gupta – Associate Professor, Sociology
Christiane Healey – Senior Lecturer II, Biology
Jonathan Hulting-Cohen – Associate Professor, Music and Dance
Ravi Karkar – Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Lisa Komoroske – Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation
Anna Marie LaChance – Lecturer, Chemical Engineering
Joshua Michal – Associate Professor, Music and Dance
Sindiso MnisiWeeks – Associate Professor, Political Science and Legal Studies
Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar – Associate Professor, Nursing
Timothy Randhir – Professor, Environmental Conservation
Matthew Rattigan – Senior Lecturer, Computer Sciences
Christine St. Laurent – Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
Jay Taneja – Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Kelsey Whipple – Assistant Professor, Journalism
STRIDE Faculty Fellows:
- Attend STRIDE Fellow training session in late August.
- Co-lead two-to-three STRIDE Workshops over the course of the AY 2024-25.
- Help recruit new STRIDE Faculty Fellows and become an ambassador for equity and diversity among faculty and librarians across the campus.
- Be willing to be trained in delivering STRIPE Workshops after gaining STRIDE Training experience (this is not required).
- Receive a $2,500 stipend for the AY 2024-25.
Contact us with any questions: facultydiversity@umass.edu