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Shaun R. Harper, Ph.D.
Shaun R. Harper formerly served as a faculty member and Executive Director of the Doctor of Education Program at the University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education. Since earning his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Indiana University, he has become one of the most visible, productive, and highly-regarded new scholars in his field. Dr. Harper maintains an active research agenda that examines race and gender in higher education; innovative approaches to retaining racial/ethnic minority students; the effects of college environments on student behaviors and outcomes; student affairs at historically Black colleges and universities; and the gains associated with purposeful student engagement, both inside and outside of the classroom. Dr. Harper is best known for his research on African American male students on college and university campuses. He authored three chapters for the new edited volume, African American Men in College (Jossey-Bass, 2005). Additionally, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded him a grant to study the effects of mentoring on increasing African American male representation in highly-selective graduate and professional schools. Dr. Harper's dissertation study, Most Likely to Succeed: The Self-Perceived Impact of Involvement on the Experiences of High-Achieving African American Undergraduate Men at Predominantly White Universities, received the 2004 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Melvene D. Hardee Dissertation of the Year Award. His article on conceptualizations of masculinities among high-achieving African American male collegians, originally published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, will be reprinted in the 7th edition of Men's Lives, the most widely read gender studies textbook on men and masculinities. Dr. Harper is completing a major policy report on African American Male Success for the Dellums Commission in Washington, D.C., and was recently selected as the 2006 Scholar-in-Residence for the American College Personnel Association's Standing Committee for Men. He and Frank Harris are currently co-editing a book titled, College Men of Color: Toward Productive Identity Convergence and Equitable Outcomes in Higher Education. Dr. Harper has authored several articles and book chapters. His book, Campus Commons: Building Inclusive Multicultural Communities through Activities, Organizations, and Space, will be released early next spring. Moreover, he has presented more than 60 sessions at national higher education conferences over the past four years. He was awarded the 2004 USC Rossier School of Education's Socrates Professor of the Year Award for Outstanding Teaching; no other first-year, untenured, nor African American faculty member has ever received this honor. He is also the recipient of the 2005 Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award from the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. He has student affairs administrative experience in campus activities, leadership programs, and Greek life. In 2000, Dr. Harper was named Chapter Advisor of the Year at the 14th Annual National Black Greek Leadership Conference. In addition, he is recipient of the 2005 Emerging Scholar Award, presented by the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). Dr. Harper formerly served on the Board of Trustees for the Association of College Unions International (ACUI) and the Board of Directors for the Association of Fraternity Advisors (AFA) Foundation. He currently maintains active involvement in multiple higher education and student affairs professional associations, including NASPA, ACPA, ACUI, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the American Educational Research Association. He also currently serves on the editorial review board for the NASAP Journal. Dr. Harper earned his bachelor's degree in Education from Albany State, a historically Black university in Georgia. His master's degree in College Student Affairs Administration is from Indiana University. |
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