Bio

Nancy Ares, PhD, has been a faculty member in higher education since 1999. Beginning at the University of Utah (1999-2003) and now at the University of Rochester (2003-present), she has spent her career researching, teaching, and performing service centered on issues of race, power, culture, and equity. Ares’ service has always been around diversity, equity, and inclusion, from creating and chairing a school-wide DEI committee…

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Supporting Theory and References

Anti-racist curriculum development taps into personal investments in knowledge building, commitments to teaching, and areas of expertise. Faculty and instructors’ vested interests can mean that their motivation to examine anti-racism is qualitatively different from approaches that start with them as individuals and/or with institution-level policies. Anti-bias and implicit bias training, promoting the value of diversity and inclusion, and, more recently, work on anti-racist practices…

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