Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity & Inclusion, 2017-Present
As Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity & Inclusion, Gina Sanchez Gibau, Ph.D. leads recruitment and retention efforts for underrepresented faculty. She also oversees efforts in leadership development and networking among underrepresented faculty. Prior to accepting the Associate Vice Chancellor role, Gibau served as Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the School of Liberal Arts.
Gibau joined the faculty of the Department of Anthropology at IU Indianapolis in 2000. Gibau serves as Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the School of Liberal Arts. She is responsible for providing leadership to faculty, staff, and students in the pursuit of student development and access to quality higher education opportunities.
As an anthropologist, Gibau studies race and ethnicity, identity, migration, and multicultural education. She has extensively researched the African Diaspora and is currently researching multicultural teaching practices in higher education. Gibau has published her research in CBE Life Sciences Education; Cimboa: Journal of Cape Verdean Letters, Arts, and Studies; Transforming Anthropology; Identities; The Western Journal of Black Studies; The Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering; and The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Within the Department of Anthropology, Gibau has served as acting chair and lead student adviser. For her efforts to study and promote diversity, she was recognized by the IU Indianapolis Black Student Union with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Advocate the Dream” Award in 2008. She also received the Dr. Joseph T. Taylor Award for Excellence in Diversity and a Trustees Teaching Award. In 2015, she received an IU Indianapolis Outstanding Woman Faculty Leadership Award.
Recently, Gibau partnered with IU McKinney Associate Dean Karen Bravo to launch IU Indianapolis’s Next Generation 2.0 program, a leadership and professional development initiative designed for women and underrepresented minority faculty and staff. The program aims to develop a diverse talent pool at IU Indianapolis.
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