Position: Professor & Senior Scholar in Multicultural Education Founding Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion

Biography:

Dr. Christine Clark is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Senior Scholar in Multicultural Education, and Founding Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Previously, Christine was the Executive Director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (previously called the Office of Human Relations Programs), the equity compliance and diversity education arm of the Office of the President, as well as an affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Education Policy and Leadership and the Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education in the College of Education, all at the University of Maryland, College Park. Clark was also an Associate Professor and the Coordinator of the Urban Educational Leadership Doctoral Program in the Division of Educational Studies at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education/Curriculum and Instruction at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

During the 1998-1999 and 2005-2006 academic years, Clark was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at La Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez and at La Universidad Rafael Landivar in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, where she conducted research with graduate students on the theme "Violencia en Espacios Escolares" (Violence in Schools). In 2004, Clark was selected by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) as the consultant for their 2004 Visiting Fulbright Scholars Conference on the theme “Harmony and Discord in the Multicultural United States.” This conference is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Office of Cultural Affairs. Also in 2004, Clark was accepted into the Fulbright Senior Specialist program.

Clark has a three-tired research agenda that focuses on: 1) white antiracist identity development and multicultural teacher education preparation; 2) the prison industrial complex and implications for urban educational leadership; and, 3) multicultural curriculum transformation in P-12 and higher education across disciplines. Clark’s specialty is in the development of critical multicultural, bilingual education as a tool for disarming violence in schools and communities.

Clark was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) for seven years and is currently on the Editorial Board for the organization’s journal, Multicultural Perspectives. Clark is also the Associate Editor for the Higher Education section of Multicultural Education.

Clark received a B.A. in economics with a minor in geology from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and an M.Ed. with areas of specialization in cross-cultural counseling and multicultural curriculum development, and an Ed.D. with areas of specialization in multicultural/bilingual education, multicultural organizational/community development, and urban educational leadership, both from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.