Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Education and Human Development, University of Delaware
Age: 40
Education: B.A., secondary education and English, Boston College, Lynch School of Education and Human Development; Master of Education, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University; Ph.D., curriculum and instruction, College of Education, University of Maryland College Park
Career mentors: Dr. H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt University; Dr. James Earl Davis, Temple University; Drs. Victoria-Maria MacDonald (retired) and Tara M. Brown, University of Maryland College Park; Dr. Maria E. Hyler, Learning Policy Institute; Dr. Laura M. Desimone, University of Delaware; Dr. Thomas Akiva, University of Pittsburgh.
Words of encouragement/wisdom: “Prioritize your scholarship. If you don’t, no one else will. Never forget why you do this work and who you do it for.”
Dr. Roderick L. Carey deftly combines theory and practice in his teaching and research with the goal of informing practitioners and institutions how to achieve better outcomes for Black and Latinx boys and young men. His school-based, qualitative, interdisciplinary research on how schools shape college-going aspirations has been extensively published.