Amber Bryant-Elias
Assistant Professor
302 Berkey Hall, 509 E. Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI 48824
Biography
Assistant Professor Amber Bryant-Elias is a Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2012, Dr. Bryant-Elias received her M.A. in Teaching Secondary English from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. She taught high school English for several years in NC and eventually continued her academics in urban education, literacy, and urban policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she completed her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instr
Read moreEducation
MA, North Carolina State University, 2012
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 2018
Publications
Bryant, A. (in progress). A systematic review of educational research on social, economic, and intergenerational mobility.
Smith-Ruiz, D., Jason, K., & Bryant, A. (in progress). The psychological and physical well-being of African American grandmothers raising grandchildren: Examining the influence of intersectionality and the theory of color-blind racism.
Bryant, A. (submitted, February 2023). We Don't Have What We Can't Afford: Poverty, Urban Education, and Social Reform. Routledge Publisher. Book Proposal.
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Read moreResearch and Grants
Alexander, J.T., Bryant, A.C., Bleckley, D.A. & Genadek K.R. (2021). Whose war? Whose peace? Quantifying racial inequality in the impacts of the WWII G.I. Bill ($49,156). OVPR Anti-Racism Grant. Funding source: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Role: Co-investigator.