Linda DeAngelo is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of Graduate Studies in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program where she also holds a secondary faculty appointment. Prior to coming to Pitt Education as an Assistant Professor, Dr. DeAngelo was the Assistant Director for Research at the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA.
Dr. DeAngelo’s scholarship examines the manifestations and transformations of structural inequality within higher education. To accomplish this, she studies individuals within the higher education enterprise, students and faculty and their pathways within higher education as a mechanism to address the ways in which systems and processes limit the development of human potential and flourishing. Currently, much of her scholarship is focused on gender and race in STEM and engineering.
Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute of Education Sciences and has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, the Review of Higher Education, the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, and Innovative Higher Education, among others.
Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy
Higher Education Program
The core PhD and EdD courses in higher education
Higher Education
Educational (In)Equity
Faculty Mentorship, Faculty Issues
Experiences of Students and Faculty of Color
Pathways Into and Through Higher Education
Graduate Education
Gender
Engineering and STEM Education
Institutional Transformation
DeAngelo, L., Schuster, M., & Lightner-Lachaud, Q. (2021). The faculty role in grooming and gatekeeping students’ of color potential along the professoriate pipeline. Review of Higher Education 44(4),493-522. DOI:10.1353/rhe.2021.0010
Weidman, J. C. & DeAngelo, L. (Eds.) (2020). Socialization in higher education and the early career: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Springer. DOI: 10.1007%2F978-3-030-33350-8.
DeAngelo, L., & Franke, R. (2016). Social mobility and reproduction for whom? College readiness and first year retention. American Educational Research Journal, 53(6), 1588-1625. DOI: 10.3102/0002831216674805.
DeAngelo, L., Schuster, M., & Stebleton, M. (2016). California dreamers: Activism, identity and empowerment among undocumented students. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 9(3), 216-230. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000023.
DeAngelo, L., Mason, J., & Winters, D. (2015). Faculty engagement in mentoring undergraduate students: How institutional environments regulate and promote extra-role behavior. Innovative Higher Education, 41(4), 317-332. DOI:10.1007/s10755-015-9350-7.
Collaborative Research: Project ELEVATE (equity focused launch to empower and value AGEP faculty to thrive in engineering). National Science Foundation, Award Period June 2022 – June 2027. PI: Alaine Allen Amount: 3,000,000, Co-I Linda DeAngelo subaward $299,982.
Collaborative Research: Course-based adaptations of an ecological belonging intervention to transform engineering representation at scale. National Science Foundation, Award Period September 2021 – August 2026. PI: Linda DeAngelo, Co-PIs Kevin Binning, & Allison Godwin. Amount: $3,000,000.
Developing a context-integrated mindset/belonging intervention to eliminate demographic-based underperformance in challenging large lecture undergraduate courses. Institute of Education Sciences, Award Period August 2021 – August 2025. PI: Kevin Binning, Co-PI Linda DeAngelo. Award Period September 2021 – August 2025. Amount: $2,000,000.
Awards and Honors:
- Division of Research Training Committee, August 2020 – Present
- Coordinator HE PhD Program, April 2021 – Present
- University Council on Graduate Studies (UCGS) December 2021 – Present
- University Council for Graduate Studies, January 2022 – Present
- Graduate Studies Fellowship Committee, January 2022 – Present
- Dean’s Distinguished Mentoring Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2022
- Publication of the Year award, American Educational Research Association SIG 168, 2023
- Provost’s Award for Diversity in the Curriculum, University of Pittsburgh, 2023
- Best Paper award, American Society for Engineering Education, 2024
- Dean’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh, 2025
