Early-Career Scholar Series Presenter: Deborah Southern Ph.D. and Advanced-Career Scholar Facilitator Ananda Martin Ph.D.

In this session, Dr. Southern will workshop a critical examination of whiteness (CEW) methodological framework which can be used to identify empirical evidence of whiteness via qualitative research. Combining critical concepts of whiteness with qualitative methods, the CEW methodological framework informs critical research design and sensitizes researchers to identify and examine whiteness throughout the data collection and data analysis process, even when participants are unaware of whiteness or its manifestations within their organization. Dr. Southern welcomes feedback, questions, and reflections on the clarity and use of the methodological framework.

Dr. Deborah E. Southern (she/her) is a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Education and Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. As a higher education scholar and qualitative researcher, Dr. Southern examines organizations and change, and how organizational transformation is possibly facilitated or restrained by mechanisms, culture, and leaders. One important contribution of Dr. Southern’s research examines how power like whiteness in institutions via areas like organizational structures, practices, and leaders’ comfort works to obstruct transformative change.

Refreshments will be served. Please direct questions to Dr. Deborah Southern, desouth@ucla.edu