Bio

Roshaunda L. Breeden (she/her) is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University and an affiliate faculty member at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research. Her work centers on creating equitable learning environments for minoritized students, leaders, and communities. As a critical scholar and researcher, Dr. Breeden‘s research departs from more traditional methods, which are often jargon-laden and slow to reach decision-makers, to modes of scholarship that are timely and digestible for all. Dr. Breeden‘s work has been published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, the Review of Higher Education, and the Journal for Women and Gender in Higher Education.

Area(s) of Expertise

• Qualitative methodologies including participatory action research, visual, and critical methodologies
• Campus-community racial relations
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education
• College access, persistence, and success for Black students
• Social class in higher education
• Advising and student affairs leadership

Publications

• Anti-Oppressive Critical Participatory Action Research and Ethics in US Postsecondary Education , (2025)
• Beyond Deficit Thinking: Six Strategies for Faculty Mentors of First-Generation, Poor, and Working-Class Graduate Students , Journal of First-generation Student Success (2025)
• Black to the Future , Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2025)
• Communal rest is resistance: A spiritual balm for Black faculty in academe. , Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (2025)
• Critical Participatory Action Research in Higher Education , (2025)
• Endarkened PAR Builds Relationships, Shares Power, and Centers Spirit in Research with and for Black Communities , (2025)
• Epilogue , (2025)
• For Us By Us CPAR , (2025)
• Strategies to Support Equity‐Driven Practices in Rural Colleges , New Directions for Community Colleges (2025)
• #FatResearchersOnCampus: Ends, Means, and Radical Possibilities of Research Teams as Healing Counterspace , Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference (2024)