
Expertise
Parenting, reducing impacts of racial discrimination on children, families of color, reducing health risks among racial and ethnic minorities
Bio
Dr. Ciara Smalls Glover is an associate professor in the Georgia State University Department of Psychology. An affiliate faculty member of the Resilient Youth Initiative, the Transcultural Conflict and Violent Extremism Initiative, and the Georgia State Partnership for Urban Health Research, Dr. Glover's research looks at conversations about ethnicity, race and culture within families. Her research examines attitudes about belonging to a specific racial, cultural or ethnic group as factors promoting positive development, and reducing the impact of racial discrimination. Her work also examines the culturally distinctive family processes that lessen the impact of risk behaviors for African-American and Latino-American young adults. Dr. Smalls Glover has received awards for teaching others how to engage in civil dialogue across sensitive topics, multiculturalism, diversity, and difference.
She is on Twitter at @csmallsglover, and you can read more about her at http://psychology.gsu.edu/profile/ciara-smalls-glover/.
Education:
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Michigan
M.S., Psychology, University of Michigan
B.S., Psychology (summa cum laude), Morgan State University