Rosalie Rolón-Dow

Faculty Director, Undergraduate Research Program

Rosalie Rolón-Dow, Ph.D., is Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research Program and Associate Professor in the School of Education. Rosalie received her Ph.D. from Temple University’s Urban Education Program. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, Rosalie began working as an Assistant Professor at UD’s College of Education and Human Development. Rosalie is passionate about making research accessible to all undergraduate students and about the power of research to shape students’ interests and career trajectories. In her own research, Rosalie focuses on race and culture in education, specializing on the experiences of racially minoritized and historically excluded students in higher education settings. In teacher education, her work focuses on the development of racial literacy in teacher candidates and the integration of culturally sustaining pedagogy in schooling. Most recently, she is pursuing research related to how different research structures shape the experiences of undergraduates engaging in research.