Gretchen Lopez
Assistant Professor
Cultural Foundations of Education
E-mail: gelopez@syr.edu
Office:
Rm. 360 Huntington Hall
Phone: 443-8344
Education:
Ph.D. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Gretchen Lopez is involved in research on race, gender, and multicultural education in higher education. She is interested in the intersection of theory, research, and practice as it informs understandings of diversity, inequality, and processes for creating change through education. She currently directs the intergroup dialogue research project at Syracuse University - part of a multi-university collaboration that brings together researchers and practitioners from nine institutions of higher education to develop, implement, and research intergroup dialogue courses for college students. She has also led the violence prevention project, focusing on conflict resolution. Lopez has published research on the social psychology of intergroup relations, and the impact of curriculum and pedagogy, in the Journal of Social Issues; Political Psychology; and Race, Ethnicity, and Education. She co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Social Issues, “50 years after Brown v. Board of Education: The promise and challenge of multicultural education.” She previously held the position of Faculty Associate for Diversity, and developed campus-wide offerings of intergroup dialogue, and related school-community partnerships, with student affairs staff.
