The EAB includes individuals with national and international
prominence, whose expertise includes interdisciplinary STEM
research, multi-disciplinary center leadership, institutional
change management, experience with past and on-going ADVANCE
Institutional Transformation, and expertise in the study of
faculty diversity in higher education and the experience of
diverse faculty, especially Hispanics. The EAB also represents a
cross-section of the greater California and U.S. populations with
respect to gender and cultural identity.
The EAB meets quarterly via conference calls and visits UC Davis
once annually to assess progress towards our programmatic goals,
recommends appropriate programmatic adjustments and directions,
assesses research program progress, and identifies potential
venues for external/national collaboration. The annual visit
often coincides with the UC Davis ADVANCE Annual Retreat, when
the EAB members view presentations by ADVANCE leaders and
consults with the internal and external evaluators.
Diana Bilimoria is the KeyBank Professor and Professor of
Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management,
Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bilimoria is the current
Division Chair of the Gender and Diversity in Organizations
Division of the Academy of Management. She has served as the
editor of the Journal of Management Education. Dr.
Carlos Castillo-Chavez is a University Regents and Joaquin Bustoz
Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology at Arizona State
University. Dr. Castillo-Chavez’s research program is carried out
at the interface of the natural and social sciences. Throughout
his extensive research career Dr. Castillo-Chaves has examined
the role of dynamic social landscapes on disease evolution and
the role of dispersal and disease as enhancing mechanisms of
ecological diversity.
Dr. Graeve, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at UC
San Diego, researches the fundamental principles of materials
processing with specific engineering needs with special emphasis
on electromagnetic multifunctional materials for sensors and
energy applications.
Brian Nosek is a Professor of Psychology at the University of
Virginia. Dr. Nosek studies the gap between values and practices
– the difference between what is intended, desired, supposed to
happen and what actually happens. His work is based on the gap
between values and practices as it is related to a variety of
psychological distinctions: intentions versus actions, explicit
versus implicit thoughts, endorsed beliefs versus automatic
responses, goals versus outcomes, motivations versus behavior,
ideology versus reasoning, and moral judgments versus moral
intuitions. The majority of Dr.
Refugio I. Rochin is UC Davis Professor Emeritus, and retired
Director of Research & Evaluation, Educational Partnership
Center, at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Rochin directed Chicana/o Studies
three times during his tenure at UCD (1971-1994) and recently
served as the department’s Senior Evaluator for Lab Aspire under
a grant for the California Public Health Laboratory Director
Training Program (2007-2008). He currently serves on the Graduate
Group for Education at U.C. Davis and lecturer in Latin America
and Latino Studies at U.C. Santa Cruz. Dr.
Dr. Ivonne Santiago is a Clinical Professor of the Civil
Engineering Department and a member of the Center for Inland
Desalination Systems (CIDS) at University of Texas at El
Paso.
As Clinical Professor, her main responsibility is to foster
projects that connect education and research to engineering
practice and real-world applications. Dr. Santiago has a combined
experience of over 20 years in the areas of water quality, water
treatment and wastewater treatment in Puerto Rico (PR), New
Mexico and Texas.
Abby Stewart is a Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies and
Associate Dean of the University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate
School. Stewart is also the founder and director of the
University of Michigan ADVANCE program and Institute for Research
on Women and Gender. She has published many scholarly
articles and several books, focusing on the feminist theory and
the psychology of women’s lives, personality, and adaptation to
personal and social changes. Her current research, which
combines qualitative and quantitative methods, includes
comparative analyses of longitud
Dr. Turner is Professor, Doctorate in Educational Leadership,
California State University, Sacramento and Professor Emerita,
Higher & Postsecondary Education, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and
Education, Arizona State University. Dr. Turner’s research
and teaching interests include access, equity and leadership in
higher education, faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity,
organizational change, and the use of qualitative methods for
policy research.
Ruth Enid Zambrana, Ph.D.,is Professor in the
Department of Women’s Studies, Director of the Consortium on Race, Gender and
Ethnicity and adjunct Professor of Family Medicine at the
University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine. Dr.
Zambrana’s scholarship applies a critical intersectional lens to
structural inequality and racial, Hispanic ethnicity, and gender
disparities in population health and higher education
trajectories.
