I am Paris Wicker (she/her), an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at The State University of New York at Buffalo. My research centers the success and well-being of Black and Indigenous students, faculty, and staff. My research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Ford Foundation, and the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (WCER) 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 my educational and professional experiences, a description of my program of research and current projects, and recent and past news and media.
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Faculty Profile at the University at Buffalo
Within this site you will find information about my educational and professional experiences, a description of my program of research and current projects, and recent and past news and media.
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Faculty Profile at the University at Buffalo
News
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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Podcast: Blacktivism In the academy: Friendship in the academy (6.2)
Doctors Paris Wicker and Lashawn Faith Washington join us for a quick chat about friendship in the academy, advice for rising scholars, and just a tiny bit about real hip hop. (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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