Stella Smith
Stella Smith
Co-Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. Higher Education Administration, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
  • MAOM Organizational Management, University of Phoenix, 2002
  • B.S. Microbiology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Professional Experience

  • Co-Program Coordinator, PhD in Educational Leadership, 2022 – present
  • Assistant Professor, Prairie View A&M University, 2022 – present
  • Adjunct Instructor (Graduate), Prairie View A&M University, 2017-2022
  • Associate Director, MACH-III Center, Prairie View A&M University, 2017-2022
  • Associate Director, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016-2017
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013-2016

Research Interests

  • Faculty and administrators of color in higher education
  • African American females in leadership in higher education
  • Access and inclusion of underserved populations in higher education
  • P–20 educational pipeline alignment

Select Publications

  • marbley, a., Starkey, J., Abdulla, J., Lilly, S. and Smith, S.L. (2023). The Pandemic Within Systemic Injustice: Intersectional Cultural Dimensions of Women’s Aging, Health, and Case Stories of COVID 19. In Robert-McComb, J. & Zumwalt, M. (Eds.). The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan, 3e.
  • marbley, a., Smith, S.L.& Dawson, S. K. (2023). Racism, Health Disparities, Health Inequities and the Health of the Active Black Woman. In Robert-McComb, J. & Zumwalt, M. (Eds.). The Active Female: Health Issues Throughout The Lifespan, 3e.
  • Smith, S. L. & Frazier-Kouassi S. (Eds). (CFP-2020). Special Issue on Improving the Outcomes of African American and Latinx Male Youth. Journal of Family Strengths.
  • Bonner, F.A. II., Banda, R., Smith, S.L., Marbley, A. F., Howard-Hamilton, M. F., (Ed.). (2021). Square Pegs and Round Holes: Alternative Student Development Frameworks and Models for Higher Education and Student Affairs. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.
  • Smith, S. L. & Ekpe, L. (2020, August). Tempered Radical Leadership within the Academy in the Age of COVID-19. HigherEdJobs Retrieved from https://www.higheredjobs.com/articles/articleDisplay.cfm?ID=2401
  • Smith, S. L. & Ekpe, L. (2020, July). Three Tips for First-Generation Graduate Students Navigating Education During the Pandemic. Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Retrieved from https://diverseeducation.com/article/185452/
  • Smith, S. L. (2020, June). Single, Black and Alone: Thoughts about Sheltering in a Place that Does Not Feel Like Home. In S. Ramasubramanian (Ed.). Quarantined Across Borders Blog Series. Media Rise. Accessible at: https://www.mediarisenow.org/qab
  • Reddick, R, Bukoski, B & Smith, S. L. (2020) (Cultural) Taxation Without Representation?: How Educational Developers Can Broker Discourse on Black Faculty Lives in the #BlackLivesMatter Era. To Improve the Academy, 39(1). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/tia.17063888.0039.103

Contact Information

Email: stsmith@pvamu.edu