Team Members
Chrystal S. Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the College of Education at Purdue University and Past President of African American Educators for Social Studies and the Indiana Council for the Social Studies. She has served as Program Chair and Treasurer for the College and University Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). Her scholarly contributions in the fields of character education, civic development, and the social studies professional development have been published in top-tier journals as well as in the AERA Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers.
Recently, Dr. Johnson served as the Dean’s Fellow in the College of Education on the Purdue Equity Task Force. She is currently Diversity Fellow in Purdue’s College of Education as well as a Purdue University Societal Impact Fellow. She continues to serve as the Program Coordinator for Social Studies Education at Purdue and as Secretary/Treasurer for the Charters and School Choice Special Interest Group of American Education Research Association (AERA).
Cornelius Bynum, Ph.D.
Cornelius L. Bynum is Associate Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University. He teaches courses in African American history and writes about progressive impulses among African Americans and authentic and independent strains of black radicalism in the early twentieth century. His book, A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights (University of Illinois Press, 2010), is an analytical, intellectual history that explores central aspects of Randolph’s thought and activism. His current book project examines the African Blood Brotherhood, a small, but significant cohort of West Indian radicals in Harlem that migrated into the American Communist Party in the 1920s.
S. Selcen Guzey, Ph.D.
Dr. Guzey is an Associate Professor of Science Education holding a joint appointment in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on integrated STEM education and provides access for students with diverse racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and linguistic backgrounds.
Jennifer Sdunzik, Ph.D.
Jennifer Sdunzik holds a doctorate in American Studies from Purdue University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of social justice, (im)migration, and education. Her first book, Geography of Hate: The Great Migration through Small-Town America (forthcoming), investigates how the small-town Midwest engaged the demographic and cultural shifts that came with the Great Migration in the twentieth century, uncovering longstanding exclusionary attitudes and policies in Indiana. She currently is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC) at Purdue University.
Tamecia R. Jones, Ph.D.
Tamecia R. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the STEM Education Department at North Carolina State University College of Education. Her research interests include K12 engineering education assessment, unobtrusive research methods and software tools, and ways of knowing.
Harvey Hinton, III, Ph.D.
Dr. Harvey Hinton III is a native of Durham, North Carolina, comes from a tradition of Black people who were leaders, educators, athletes, builders, and healers. He has relied on such traditions throughout his career in leadership and influencing others, as he has worked to be the change in his community. His insights are garnered from over 20 years of experience working closely with higher education leadership, non-profit organizations, school districts and regional corporations in creating equitable experiential learning experiences. Dr. Hinton is Executive Director at Kuumba, LLC and a Culture of Health Leaders fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Hinton is a proud AGGIE having earned his B.S. in Industrial Technology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University before earning his M.S. and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Purdue University. So AGGIE PRIDE and Boiler Up!
This project is a U.S. Department of Education funded project spearheaded by researchers at Purdue University & North Carolina State University.
