Our Team

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The STEM Data Visualization + Du Bois project is led by an interdisciplinary team from Fisk University, Princeton University, and University of California, Merced. We are supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Principle Investigators


Dr. Leslie Collins, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Fisk University

Dr. Charlie Eaton, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced

Dr. Frederick Wherry, Townsend Martin Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Co-Principal Investigators:


Dr. Camila Alvarez, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Jeffrey Himpele, Director, VizE Lab for Ethnographic Data Visualization, Princeton University

Dr. A. Hannibal Hamdallahi, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fisk University

Dr. Whitney Pirtle, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Sociology, Associate Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. La Tanya L. (Reese) Rogers, Dean of the School of Humanities & Behavioral Social Sciences, Fisk University

Consultants


Allen Hillery, Distinguished Lecturer, City University of New York Macaulay Honors College, #DuBoisChallenge Co-Founder

Anthony Starks, independent developer and designer, #DuBoisChallenge Co-Founder

Postgraduate and Graduate Researchers:


Morgan Allen, Postgraduate Scholar, Fisk University

Sarah Avina, Graduate Student in Sociology, University of California, Merced

Dr. Leia Belt, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Merced

Kimberly Garcia-Galves, PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California, Merced

Andrew Martin, Graduate Student in Sociology Department, University of California, Merced