Shaun R. Harper

Harper joined the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education faculty in 2007, where he earned tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011.

He returned to the University of Southern California in July 2017 as the Clifford and Betty Allen Chair in Urban Leadership and founding executive director of the USC Race and Equity Center.

His research focuses primarily on race, gender, and other dimensions of equity in an array of organizational contexts, including K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and corporations.

Atlantic Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates, Lumina, ECMC, Ford, Kellogg, College Futures, Kresge, Sloan, and Open Society Foundations have awarded him more than $22.2 million in grants.

He spent a decade at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a tenured professor and founding executive director of the Center for the Study of Race & Equity in Education.The New York Times,[6][7] Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,[8] Sports Illustrated, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed,[9] and hundreds of other news outlets have quoted Professor Harper and featured his research.