In her role as Provost of Oakes College, Professor Langhout oversees the Oakes Service Learning and Community Justice Program. This is the main program that will be evaluated through the First in the World work.

Professor Langhout’s experience as a first generation college student, her research with working class students, and her experience with critical service learning drives her interests in the First in the World project. She is deeply committed to creating university structures that support students from groups who have not been historically represented at the university.

Background

Professor Langhout is a member of the Psychology Department and is the Oakes Provost at UC Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in Community Psychology, with a minor in quantitative methods, in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a first generation college student and also has degrees from UC Santa Cruz (BA, psychology) and Modesto Junior College (AA).

Research & teaching experience

Research interests: conscientización, empowerment, school-university-community collaboration, schooling experiences for working class students who are Latina/o, African American, and white

Teaching interests: participatory action research, community psychology, community-based interventions, qualitative research methods, univariate statistics, social-community psychology in practice