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Dr. Kat J. Stephens-Peace is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2022), as well as an Ed.M. from Teachers College, Columbia University in Higher and Postsecondary Education (2018).  She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, concentrating in Caribbean Literature and Writing, Sociology, and Ed Policy (2014), Dr. Stephens-Peace is also a strong community college advocate, having transferred from Borough of Manhattan Community College (2012) where she majored in Creative Writing and Literature.

Dr. Stephens-Peace is a critical qualitative-creative.  She is a transdisciplinary education researcher, scholar, and educator.  Her areas of research inquiry are informed by her being a Caribbeanist in Higher Education, and her focus on disabled and crip, inclusive, international, and decolonized Black Studies, with an attention to the Global South.  Recent research projects have positioned Dr. Stephens-Peace as an student-identity and student-success focused researcher with respect to her work on Black women graduate students with disabilities (neurodivergence continuum), as well as Black Caribbean international and immigrant student populations. Her interests in arts based methods and alternative methods are prevalent in her work and use of poetry & digital media.  She has presented her research and theoretical papers at various national and international conferences.  Additionally, her work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, and she have provided leadership and service to organization in the education space.

Education

Ph.D. in Higher Education                                                                                                                                                University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts

Ed.M. in Higher and Postsecondary Education                                                                                                              Teachers College, Columbia University, New York NY

BA, concentrations in Caribbean Literature, Sociology, Ed Policy                                                                                 Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, NY

 

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