Deborah Rivas-Drake
Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development:
Education
Phone: +1 401 863 2127
Deborah_Rivas_Drake@brown.edu
My research seeks to illuminate the processes by which young people make sense of their place in society, especially in terms of race, ethnicity, and social class. Currently, my research focuses on two questions: (1) How do schools, families, peers, and communities shape the development of ethnic identity in adolescence? and (2) How do youths' beliefs about ethnicity and opportunity inform their academic and psychological well-being? I am particularly interested in the interplay between social identity development, perceptions of opportunity, and educational success as well as psychological health, and I examine these issues across the span of adolescence through young adulthood
Biography
Deborah Rivas-Drake is an Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development. She received her Ph.D. in Education and Psychology from the University of Michigan and completed an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship at the NYU Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education. Her research examines (1) how schools, families, and communities shape the development of ethnic identity in adolescence and (2) how youths' beliefs about ethnicity and opportunity relate to academic and psychological well-being.
Degrees
Ph.D.
Affiliations
Society for Research on Adolescence
Society for Research on Child Development
American Educational Research Association
American Psychological Association
Funded Research
2008 Salomon Research Faculty Award (Brown University), $15,000.
Curriculum Vitae
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