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Lynette Danley Land

Assistant Professor


University of Utah
College of Education
1705 Campus Center Drive; MBH Rm. 339
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9254

EDUCATION:

Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois-UC, 2002-2004
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2002
M.S.E., Drake University, 1997
B.A., Iowa State University, 1993

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Lynette Danley Land is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah. Her research examines the academic and social experiences of women and people of color in higher education; particularly the recruitment and retention of Black women faculty members and students in academia. I adopt qualitative and document analysis research methods, and draw from gender and race-based epistemologies and methodologies primarily Critical Race Feminism (CRF), as well as other traditional frameworks from the social sciences to explore the diverse lived experiences of Black women and other underserved populations in academe

AFFILIATIONS:

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
  • American Association for University Women
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Association for the Study of Higher Education
  • Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society
  • Phi Delta Kappa International

PERSONAL PROSE:

Dr. Lynette Land is married to Roderic Land (also a professor at the University of Utah in the College of Education) and they share a 5-year old son, W. Julian Heggins, IV.



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