Paris Wicker (she/her), is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at The State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research centers on whether, for whom, and how educational experiences and social networks shape success, health behaviors, and well-being. Her research has been supported by the Spencer Foundation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Ford Foundation, and published in the Review of Higher Education, Journal of College Student Development, and the Journal of Higher Education.
Within this site you will find information about her educational and professional experiences, a description of research and current projects, and recent and past news and media.
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Faculty Profile at the University at Buffalo
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Students and faculty from #UBGSE's higher education and student affairs program recognized with Pillars of Leadership Awards
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2025 Highlights
GSE faculty secure funding for groundbreaking research
Paris Wicker has been awarded a $59,126 grant from the National Institutes of Health for her project, “Relational Determinants of Well-Being and Institutional Support for Black and Indigenous College Students.” https://ed.buffalo.edu/magazine/issues/fa... (Link)
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Publications
Paris Wicker
Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, vol. 18(1), 2025, pp. 77–93
Paris Wicker, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Bridget Goosby
Journal of Higher Education , 2025, pp. 1-28
We must build spaces that love us: Fostering healing through a critical quantitative collective
Shanyce L. Campbell, Alexis Hunter, Claire L. Mackevicius, Sarah Peko-Spicer, Paris Wicker
Holistic Education Review, vol. 5(1), 2025, pp. 1-16
Paris D. Wicker
Special Issue: Familial and Relational Influences on College Outcomes among Minoritized Students, Education Sciences, vol. 14(8), 2024
The consequences of getting it right: Navigating anti-blackness in quantitative statistics courses
Paris Wicker
M. Shardé Davis, Being #BlackintheIvory: Truthtelling about Racism in the American University, University of North Carolina Press, 2024, pp. 53-55
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