Racially Responsive Leadership

Dr. Shaun R. Harper is a Provost Professor in the Rossier School of Education and Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He also is the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership, USC Race and Equity Center founder and executive director, president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Dr. Harper’s research focuses primarily on racial and gender equity and inclusion in educational, corporate, social, and organizational contexts. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles (please see below). His research has been cited in more than 13,000 published studies across numerous academic disciplines. Johns Hopkins University Press is publishing his 13th book, Race Matters in College.

Dr. Harper has been interviewed on CNN, ESPN, and NPR, and featured or quoted in The New York Times, Washington Post, Education Week, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and several thousand other news outlets. He has testified to the U.S. House of Representatives, and presented his research at various White House and U.S. Department of Education convenings. He was appointed to President Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper advisory council in 2015, and recognized in Education Week as one of the 10 most influential professors in the field of education in 2017.

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Dr. Harper is a prolific writer, with over 100 peer-reviewed articles and academic publications to his name. Check out a few of his publications below and search Centennial Libraries and Learning Centres for more!

Cole, E. R. & Harper, S. R. (2017). Race and rhetoric: An analysis of college presidents’ statements on campus racial incidents. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 10(4), 318-333. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000044. Centennial link.

Davis III, C. H. F., Harris, J. C., Stokes, S., & Harper, S. R. (2019). But is it activist? Interpretive criteria for activist scholarship in higher education. The Review of Higher Education, 42, 85-108. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2019.0046. Centennial link.

Harper, S. R. (2020). COVID-19 and racial equity implications of reopening colleges. American Journal of Education, 127, 153-162. https://doi.org/10.1086/711095.

Harper, S. R., Smith, E. J., & Davis III, C. H. F. (2018). A critical race case analysis of Black undergraduate student success at an urban university. Urban Education, 53(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085916668956. Centennial link.

Harper, S. R. (2017). Racially responsive leadership: Addressing the longstanding problem of racism in higher education. In J. S. Antony, A. M. Cauce & D. E. Shalala (Eds.), Challenges in higher education leadership (pp. 117-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315715841. Centennial link.

Harper, S. R., & Davis III, C. H. F. (2016). Reducing racism in college classrooms: Eight actions for faculty. Academe, 102(6), 30-34. https://www.aaup.org/article/eight-actions-reduce-racism-college-classrooms#.YOi-D-hKhPY

Harper, S. R. (2012). Race without racism: How higher education researchers minimize racist institutional norms. Review of Higher Education, 36(1), 9-29. hhttps://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2012.0047. Centennial link.