Bobbi Griffith ’27 (Image provided)
Bobbi Griffith ’27, a childhood with special education major from Syracuse, NY, has been awarded a Dr. L. Eudora Pettigrew Women’s History Summer Research Excellence Grant. Griffith is one of three SUNY students to receive the annual grant.
Griffith’s research project examines how teachers in the US and Iceland understand and handle gender fairness in classrooms, focusing on how cultural ideas and teachers’ gender biases affect student results. By using qualitative methods such as structured interviews and classroom observations in Reykjavík, Húsavik, and New York State, the project aims to explain teachers’ roles in creating gender fairness and welcoming classrooms, and to show how gender expectations impact student success. Professor of philosophy Amanda Roth, who is also coordinator of the gender, sexuality, and women’s studies program, serves as Griffith’s research advisor.
The Pettigrew Research Excellence Grants are named in honor of the first Black college president in the SUNY system. This initiative provides SUNY undergraduate students with the opportunity to pursue an innovative community-based applied-learning experience in women’s history. Working under the advisement of campus faculty members, and each receiving a stipend and other financial support, those selected will conduct original research at New York historical sites, libraries, historical societies, museums, and other institutions.
“SUNY prides itself on being an institution where scholars have the resources to dive into the most critical research subjects,” said SUNY Chancellor King. “With thanks to the SUNY Board of Trustees and through initiatives like the Pettigrew Research Excellence Grants, we pave the way to new discoveries in underrepresented fields.”
Learn more in SUNY’s news release about the grant.
Author
Monique Patenaude, PhD