Despite stated commitments to diversity, predominantly White academic institutions still have not increased racial diversity among their faculty. In this article Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy focus on one entry point for doing so—the faculty hiring process. They analyze a typical faculty hiring scenario and identify the most common practices that block the hiring of diverse faculty and protect Whiteness and offer constructive alternative practices to guide hiring committees in their work to realize the institution’s commitment to diversity.
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Özlem Sensoy is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, associate faculty in the Department of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and affiliate faculty in the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures at Simon Fraser University. She teaches and conducts research in social justice in education, critical media literacy, and cultural studies in education. Her research has appeared in journals including Gender and Education, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Democracy & Education. She is the coeditor (with C. Stonebanks) of Muslim Voices in School: Narratives of Identity and Pluralism (Sense, 2009), and the coeditor (with E. Marshall) of Rethinking Popular Culture and Media (Rethinking Schools, 2016). Together, Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy coauthored the award-winning book Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Teachers College Press, 2017).
Robin DiAngelo is a former associate professor of education. Her work is centered on whiteness studies and discourse analysis. She has written extensively on white racial identity and her articles have appeared in journals including Race, Ethnicity and Education, International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, and Equity & Excellence in Education. She is the author of What Does It Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy (Peter Lang, 2016) and White Fragility (Beacon Press, 2018). DiAngelo provides racial justice training for a wide range of public and private organizations. Together, Robin DiAngelo and Özlem Sensoy coauthored the award-winning book Is Everyone Really Equal? An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Teachers College Press, 2017).