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Alexia Oduro

  • 2024

Fellowship

USC Provost's PhD Fellowship

Research Concentration

  • Higher Education

Research Interest

Anti-Black Racism, Educational Policies, University Responses to Racism
Alexia Oduro

Contact Information

Advisor(s)

  • Royel Johnson

Research Center

Bio

Alexia Oduro is a PhD student at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where she is a Provost fellow. Her research examines how higher education institutions respond to anti-Black racism and how these responses shape students’ understandings of race, racism, and institutional responsibility. Rather than treating racism as episodic or interpersonal, her work centers anti-Blackness as a structural condition of educational institutions and interrogates how policies, practices, and campus climates normalize racial harm. Drawing on qualitative, participatory, and critical research approaches, Oduro’s scholarship is grounded in the belief that research should not only name harm but also contribute to strategies for transformation within and beyond educational institutions. 

Oduro’s research has been published in journals including The Journal of Higher Education, Race, Ethnicity, and Education, Families in Society, and The Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community. She has contributed to policy briefs and public-facing scholarship that addresses campus responses to racial incidents and the broader political landscape. Oduro’s work is informed by sustained engagement in institutional and community-based efforts that address anti-Black racism. She is a research associate with the Black Critical Policy Collective, the Pullias Center of Higher Education, and the Race and Equity Center at USC. She is also co-founder of the Black Lives Matter All the Time Collective, a research collaborative committed to producing knowledge that informs policy, practice, and institutional action. Across her work, Oduro is committed to research that supports efforts toward educational justice and institutional accountability. 

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