Brayboy Appointed to W.T. Grant Committee
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, dean of Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, was named to the William T. Grant Foundation’s Scholars Selection Committee.
Brayboy, the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy, joins professor Cynthia Coburn, who is in the middle of her five-year term.
Launched in 1982, the William T. Grant Scholars Program supports the professional development of promising early-career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.
The Selection Committee, composed of prominent senior scholars like Brayboy and Coburn, screens applications before inviting a small group of finalists to New York for an interview. The committee includes researchers from a range of disciplines, including public health, psychiatry, education, social policy, and psychology.
Brayboy studies the role of race and diversity in higher education and the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, and faculty in higher education systems. He mentors two William T. Grant Scholars: Eve Tuck, associate professor of critical race and Indigenous studies at the University of Toronto (Class of 2020); and Teresa Ambo, assistant professor and co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Futures Institute at the University of California, San Diego. (Class of 2027).
In addition to Brayboy, other new members include Tabbye Chavous, vice provost for equity & inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of Michigan; Cristiane Duarte, professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Columbia University - New York State Psychiatric Institute; and Emily Ozer, professor of community health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health.
Karolyn Tyson, chair of sociology at Georgetown University, was named the committee chair. Tyson’s research centers on the role of race in educational experiences, particularly for Black students.
School of Education and Social Policy faculty and alumni who have been named WT Grant Scholars include:
- Simone Ispa-Landa 2018–2023
Creating More Equitable and Developmentally Attuned Disciplinary Environments for Adolescent Students - Mesmin Destin, 2016–2021
Healthy Pathways Toward Academic Achievement and Social Mobility for Low-SES Youth - Alumna Stefani Deluca 2008–2013
Moving Matters: Residential Mobility, Neighborhoods and Family in the Lives of Poor Adolescents - Alumnus Kevin Roy 2006–2011
Intergenerational Influences on Men’s Transitions to Adulthood - Alumna Rachel Dunifon 2005–2010
The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Adolescent Grandchildren - Emma Adam 2004–2009
Everyday Experiences, Psychological Stress and the Emergence of Affective Disorder over the Transition to Adulthood