Vincent Stephens

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences

Boston University

Vincent L. Stephens (he/him) is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in the College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Stephens builds capacity and awareness among faculty through educational engagement rooted in research-based approaches to equitable hiring, pedagogy, and intellectual practices. He is an American Studies scholar who co-edited 2017’s Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study, wrote 2019’s Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music, and is currently completing a book on contemporary depictions of women on televisionfor Wayne State University Press. His essays on popular culture have also appeared in numerous scholarly journals, edited collections, and encyclopedias. As a DEIA focused administrator he has also published on peer mentoring programs and practices, and high impact educational practices, and presented at conferences hosted by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), Pennsylvania Association of Liaisons and Offices of Multicultural Affairs (PALOMA), Peer Mentoring Institute (PMI), and the Pennsylvania chapter for the National Association for Multicultural Education (PA-NAME). He completed his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park, and has held DEI leadership roles at Dickinson College and Bucknell University.