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Eric Kyere

  • Ph.D., MSW
  • Associate Professor
  • IU Indianapolis

Contact

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    (317) 278-6516

  •   ekyere@iu.edu
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    902 W New York Street
    902 W New York Street

About

Dr. Eric Kyere is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and Adjunct Professor of Africana Studies at the Indiana University, IUPUI. Dr. Kyere’s research seeks to examine and identify how racism revives itself with enduring impact on the persons of African descent both on the continental Africa and the diasporic world, ways to disrupt it, and reimagine a decolonized/anti-racist society. More specifically, Dr. Kyere focuses on the evolution of anti-black racism through enslavement, colonialism, and coloniality to construct collective cultural memory, trauma, and liberatory and thriving practices of the persons of African descent within an Atlantic framework. He applies research tools and skills from transdisciplinary perspective especially social science and humanities to engage communities of African descent especially youth and young adults across the Atlantic to map their proximity to both historical and continued effects of the evolution of anti-black racism, identify the various life thriving resistance strategies that Blacks have deployed, and synthesize these to synergistically construct decolonial/anti-racist narratives from the Atlantic framework. Dr. Kyere’s overall goal is to broadly assemble narratives that capture the experiences of Black and other marginalized people within the matrix of global colonial racial empire and build on them to inform anti-racist and decolonial research and education, and subsequently anti-racist and decolonized society.
He has expertise in a variety of areas including: students’ engagement, racial inequities in education and health, racial-ethnic socialization, racial identity with particular focus on persons of African descent’s developmental outcomes, parenting, equitable school climate, program evaluation, international social work, and human trafficking. Dr. Kyere earned his BA in social work in 2006 from the University of Ghana, MSW in 2011 from the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. In addition, Dr. Kyere acquired a graduate certificate in African Studies from the University of Pittsburgh Center for International Studies.

Education

PhD

Emphasis/Major: Social Work
2017 - University of Pittsburgh

Dissertation: Examining the Relationships between Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Racial Identity, and African American Youth’s Academic Outcomes: An Analysis with Implications for Social Work Research, Practice and Policy

MSW

Emphasis/Major: Social Work
2011 - Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

BA

Emphasis/Major: Social Work with Political Science
2006 - University of Ghana

Research Interests

Racial Disparities in Education and Health, Racial-Ethnic Socialization, Racial-Ethnic Identity and Youth of persons of African Descent's Developmental Outcomes. Positive Youth Development, Parenting, Equitable School Climate, Program Evaluation, International Social Work, and Human Trafficking

Teaching Interests

Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Generalist Social Work practice with individuals, children, and families, and communities
Children, Youth and families Policy
Social Work Research
Race, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
School Social Work
International Social Work and Social Development