Cynthia Hudley

• In Event: Researching Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts

Abstract

Cynthia Hudley, is a professor of Child and Adolescent Development in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has served as Vice president of Division E of AERA and is currently President of the Committee on Socioeconomic Status for the American Psychological Association. Hudley examines ethnic minority students’ academic motivation in social context. This research program was one of only a few that rigorously examined African American male academies, an educational innovation implemented in the last decade of the 20th century - academic programming for African-American male students provided in single-sex classrooms. Hudley has also conducted research on student motivation that disaggregates monolithic, racially defined populations (e.g., Black, Asian) to examine within-group differences by social class and immigrant generation. This line has produced a number of peer reviewed articles and a co-edited volume, Academic Motivation and the Culture of Schools, published by Oxford University Press. Her work on aggression and youth violence investigated samples of students that varied by gender, ethnicity, age, social class, and region of residence. The cornerstone of this research was her aggression reduction intervention, the BrainPower Program, an award recipient from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), that has been described in a single authored book, You Did that on Purpose, published by Yale University Press.

Author

• Cynthia Hudley, University of California - Santa Barbara