Stephanie Hicks, PhD (she/her/hers) is a lecturer at The Program on Intergroup Relations and a faculty affiliate of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at U-M. Her teaching and research foci include diversity, equity and inclusion policy in higher education, intergroup dialogue and social justice education. As a lecturer, Stephanie teaches courses for the Program and coordinates the Race & Ethnicity Engagement efforts between IGR and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. A Chicago native, Stephanie received a dissertation grant from the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was named a Diversifying Higher Education Faculty Fellow by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Her work has been published in the National Political Science Review and the Black History Bulletin. She is also a yoga teacher and, in 2016, began Yoga for Black Lives, a series of donation-based yoga classes to support Chicago organizations resisting state violence against Black people.
Educatonal background
- PhD in policy studies in urban education, University of Illinois Chicago
- MEd in instructional leadership and policy studies, University of Illinois Chicago
- BA in English, communications, and African American studies, Lake Forest College
Recent publications
- Hicks, S., Rich Kaplowitz, D. (2024). Facilitating Transformational Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities. Teachers College Press.
- Hicks, S. (2022). “Self-Care in Context: Notes from a Yoga Teacher in the University.” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International, 11(1).