Diedre Houchen

Began Doctoral Fellowship: Fall 2010

Program Area: Curriculum, Teaching, & Teacher Education; working with Dr. Dorene Ross & Dr. Sevan Terzian

Primary Research Interests:  African American education and pedagogy; History of Education—segregated schooling; Africana methodologies.

Courses Taught at UFEDG 4930, “Race, History, and Public Schooling in the United States”

Recent Conference Paper PresentationDiedre Houchen, “The State of African Americans in Higher Education:  A Review of the Literature.”  ISAAC Conference on Research Directions; Third Biannual Empirical Research Conference on African American Education.  Hilton Head, SC.  May 2013.

Recent Scholarly Publication:  Linda Behar-Horenstein, Cirecie West-Olatunji, Thomas Moore, Diedre Houchen & Kellie Roberts, “Resilience post-tenure:  The experience of an African American Woman in a PWI,” Florida Journal of Educational Administration and Policy 5 (January 2013):  68-84.