Faculty of Humanities and Education
Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Ph.D. is a Professor of Social Foundations in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of South Florida, and a former McKnight Junior Faculty Fellow. Her research focuses on gendered racism in the faculty and administrative ranks of Black women in higher education. She interrogates the structures of power that potentially affect the interpretations of institutional climates, cultures, and experiences, as well as the mentoring practices and performance as Black women administrators. Her research is published in articles, journals and handbook chapters including the American Educational Research Journal, Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, and NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education. She has a co-edited a book, Schools as Imagined Communities: The Creation of Identity, Meaning and Conflict in U.S. History, a co-authored book, Black Women, Academe, and the Tenure Process in the United States and the Caribbean and recently completed a third book (co-edited), Mentoring as Critically Engaged Praxis: Storying the lives and Contributions of Black Women Administrators.
