Angela Clark-Taylor

Narrative

Angela Clark-Taylor, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. School of Education at St. John Fisher University. Clark-Taylor currently serves as the Chair of the Ed.D. in Executive Leadership and the M.S. in Educational Leadership.

Clark-Taylor joined Fisher in 2024 after serving at Case Western Reserve University, most recently as executive director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and a research assistant professor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Science. During her time at Case Western, Clark-Taylor served as the principal investigator for a Department of Justice Violence Against Women Campus Grant for violence prevention and response as well American Association of University Women and PPG foundation grants to support women and girls in STEM fields. In addition, Clark-Taylor oversaw executive coaching and leadership development programs for higher education professionals on campus, in Cleveland, and across the country.

Prior to her time at Case Western, Clark-Taylor was an affiliated assistant professor in higher education at Bowling Green State University and also served as the director of the Center for Women and Gender Equity. In her time at Bowling Green, she co-founded the Violence Prevention Center. From 2008 to 2015, she also served at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at the University of Rochester. Following her time at UR, she was a visiting assistant professor in counseling and higher education at the University of Redlands. In 2016, she was named the Inaugural Rochford Initiative Faculty Fellow. In this role, Clark-Taylor oversaw the executive leadership component of this program that provided mentorship and workshops for PK-20 administrators in the Redlands School District.

She started her career in community-based organizations including Children’s Institute, Hillside’s Alternative for Independent Youth and Emergency Series, and Planned Parenthood of Western New York. Overall, Clark-Taylor has 20 years of experience as a scholar-practitioner with roles across education, health, and community-focused organizations. Her leadership has been recognized by the American Association for Women as an emerging leader, Internal Council for Research on Women through the Community Innovation Fellowship program, and the National Women’s Studies Association’s mentor award.

Clark-Taylor’s research examines the relationship between leaders’ social identities and institutional structures to illuminate pathways for organizational change that serve the public good. Clark-Taylor’s scholarship has been honored by the American Education Research Association committee for Research on Women and has been published in the Journal for Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, the Journal of College and Character, Violence Against Women, and the Journal About Women and Gender in Higher Education. Her current projects focus on how organizational cultural and workplace trauma shapes workers’ well-being and retention.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Examining factors that influence BIPOC students' enrollment in STEM postsecondary majors, AIR Professional File, 160, 44-62, 2023. Co-authored with T.C. Tran, J. Williams, K.V. Middleton, & C. Priddie.
• Recovering through service: Meaning making and resiliency to trauma, Journal of College and Character, 23(2), 144-159, 2022.
• Feminist attitudes, behaviors, and culture shaping women's center practice, Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, 4, 110-131, 2021. Co-authored with E. Creamer, B. LeSavoy, & K. Cerulli.
• Is campus rape primarily a serial or single time problem? Evidence for a multicampus study, Violence Against Women, 26)3-4), 296-311, 2020. Co-authored with J.D. Foubert, & A.F. Wall.
• Examining feminist consciences in LGBTQ university constituencies, New York Journal of Student Affairs, 19(1), 18-53, 2019. Co-authored with J. Cullen, C. Faurot, A. Alani, & C. Cerulli.
• “Do you want me to become a social piranha?”: Smarts and sexism and college women's representation in the US TV show Greek, Journal About Women in Higher Education, 11(3), 313-331, 2018. Co-authored with P. Reynolds & J.P Mendez.
• Developing critical consciousness and social justice self-efficacy: Lessons from feminist community engagement students narratives, Journal of Higher Education, 21(4), 81-115, 2017.
• Exploring collegiate perceptions of feminism through Bem's gender schema theory, New York Journal of Student Affairs, 16(1), 17-35, 2016. Co-authored with A. Alan, A. Rogeshefsky, & C. Cerulli.
• Sisterhood and feminism: Engaging women's studies students in the community, Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, 1, 76-102, 2015. Co-authored with J.L. Bryant, S. Story, & J. Lawlor.

Book Chapters

• Modeling, mentoring, and pedagogy: Cultivating public scholars. In A. Kezar and J. Drivalas (Ed.), Envisioning Public Scholarship in Our Time, 2018. Co-authored with M. Sarubbi, J.M. Kiyama, & S.J. Waterman.
• Increasing gender and identity competency among student affairs and professionals, A guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusive Campus, Post-PULSE, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2017. Co-authored with K. Legg, C. Cardenas, & R. Rehage. Edited by V. Stead.
• Moving from theory to practice: The rocxxy summer internship in feminist activism and leadership, Feminist community engagement: Achieving praxis, New York: Palgrave, 2014. Co-authored with Q. Mitchell & K. Rich. Edited by S.V. Iverson & J.H. James.

Selected Reports

• “We make do and we are creative”: A report on the status on women and gender equity centers in higher education, National Women’s Studies Association, 2024. Co-authored with H. Regan.
• Protecting our futures: Challenges & strategies for women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, National Women’s Studies Association, 2024. Co-authored with H. Regan.
• WFLDI: Women faculty leadership development institute, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, 2024. Co-authored with H. Regan & C. Creamer.
• WSLDI: Women Staff Leadership Development Institute, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, 2023. Co-authored with H. Regan, C. Creamer, & A. Robinson.
• WISER: Women in science and engineering roundtable, Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, 2022. Co-authored with A.M. Hauser & A. Robinson.

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