2019-20 Diversity Scholars Cohort

Stephan was a Diversity Scholar in the Economics Department for the 2019-2020 academic year and taught Race and Economic Power in the fall and Mathematical Economics in the spring. He wrote his dissertation on extended family wealth and higher education as a PhD student at American University. He has research published on Puerto Rico in Diálogo, a Latin American and Latinx Studies journal, and on stratification economics in an edited collection on "post-racial" frameworks (2020, Routledge). Lefebvre earned his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his M.A. from American University.  . He now works as an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

Gloria was a Diversity Scholar within the education department for the 2019-2020 academic year. Her fall course was Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. She finished her dissertation, “Pedagogies of The Movement: Malaquias Montoya and Teachings of Chicano Public Art” as a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Poveda (previously Toriche) earned a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies with a minor in Sociology from the University of California, Davis and an M. A. in Chicana/o Studies with an emphasis in Black Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Gloria is currently a lecturer in California Northstate University's Health Sciences department.

Natasha was a Diversity Scholar for the Department of Psychology during the 2019-2020 academic year while also a PhD candidate in the Social Psychology program at the University of Kansas. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Surrey, in the UK. Natasha's research integrates decolonial and feminist theory with a cultural psychological approach. She is currently writing her dissertation, which utilizes social cognition research to examine ethnocentrism in normative beliefs about women's sexuality.   She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ithaca College.

Jonathan worked in the Writing Department as a 2019-2020 Diversity Scholar while also a PhD candidate in the English Department at Northeastern University. Osborne co-edited a collection of essays titled Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference (2018, Routledge). His dissertation, titled "Difference within Difference: A Study of Modern Black Conservative Rhetoric" analyzes the rhetorical techniques of prominent Black conservatives to understand how they persuade audiences. Osborne earned his B.A. and M.A. in English from Tulane University and is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Louisiana State University.