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Department
Human and Organizational Development
Office Location
226 Buttrick Hall
Mailing Address
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235
Direct Phone
615-343-6390
Fax Number
615-343-1767
Email Address
Gilman W. Whiting
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Program in African American and Diaspora Studies; Director, Scholar Identity Institute
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2004
Joined faculty in 2004
Short Biography
Gilman Whiting teaches courses on the African American Diaspora, black masculinity, race, sport and American culture, and qualitative research methods. His areas of research include work with young black fathers, low-income minorities, welfare reform and fatherhood initiatives, education reform, special needs populations (gifted, at-risk learners, young black men and scholar identities), and health in the black community.
He is the author of more than 30 scholarly publications relating to minority populations, especially males, in such publications as Council for Exceptional Children, Urban Education, Roeper Review, The Willamette Journal: Special on African American Studies, Gifted Education Press Quarterly, Journal for Secondary Gifted Education, Gifted Child Today and the Midwestern Educational Research Journal. He is editor of On Manliness: Black American Masculinities and author of a book-in-progress entitled Fathering from the Margins: Young Black Fathers, Outlaw Culture and Welfare Reform.
Whiting consults with school districts nationally on various issues related to psychosocial behavior and motivation among young students, particularly black males and fathers. He is the creator of the Scholar Identity Model™, co-director of the Scholar Identity Institute for young black males, and co-director of the Vanderbilt Achievement Gap Project.