Gretchen Lopez
Gretchen Lopez is Associate Professor in Cultural Foundations of Education in the School of Education, faculty director of the interdisciplinary Intergroup Dialogue Program, and affiliated faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Professor Lopez’s research studies race and critical pedagogy in higher education, including applying a multi-method approach to studying inequality and the experience and impact of social justice education across educational contexts. Her published work includes co-editing the book, “Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities, and Social Justice” (2014, Routledge), and she led the university’s participation in the Multi-University Intergroup Dialogue Research Project, a nine-institution study capturing educational processes and outcomes of learning through intergroup dialogue, for undergraduate students.
Her current research projects include: (1) studying the knowledge, skills, and awareness college students develop through Intergroup Dialogue academic courses that are applied to future work and efforts that center collaboration and coalition building; (2) exploring the practice and effectiveness of digital pedagogy to expand Intergroup Dialogue academic offerings, facilitation, and student access; and (3) capturing the significance of Intergroup Dialogue, including facilitation and training/mentoring experiences, for graduate students and their pathways in faculty positions or as engaged scholars.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Gender Psychology
- Helping, Prosocial Behavior
- Intergroup Relations
- Self and Identity
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Books:
- Zirkel, S., Lopez, G. E., Brown, L. M., & Frieze, I. H. (Eds.). (2004). The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: Interethnic contact and change in the 21st century. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Zuniga, X., Lopez, G. E, & Ford, K. A. (Eds.). (2014). Intergroup dialogue: Engaging difference, social identities and social justice. New York: Routledge.
Journal Articles:
- Brown, L. M., & Lopez, G. E. (2001). Political contacts: Analyzing the role of similarity in theories of prejudice. Political Psychology, 22, 279-291.
- Gurin, P., Nagda, B. A., & Lopez, G. E. (2004). The benefits of diversity in education for democratic citizenship. Journal of Social Issues, 60, 17-34.
- Lopez, G. E. (2004). Interethnic contact, curriculum, and attitudes in the first year of college. Journal of Social Issues, 60, 75-94.
- Nagda, B. A., Gurin, P., & Lopez, G. E. (2003). Transformative pedagogy for democracy and social justice. Race, Ethnicity, and Education, 6, 165-191.
- Zirkel, S., Lopez, G. E., & Brown, L. M. (Eds.). (2004). The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education: Interethnic contact and change in education in the 21st century. Journal of Social Issues, 60.
Courses Taught:
- Attitudes and Attitude Change
- Experimental Social Psychology
- Intergroup Dialogue
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Racism
- Psychology of Oppression
- Research Methods
- Social Identities
Gretchen Lopez
Cultural Foundations of Education
360 Huntington Hall
School of Education, Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-2340
United States of America
- Phone: (315) 443-8344