Helen Neville, professor EPSY and interim head of C&I has been named a professor at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois. She was selected based on outstanding scholarship.
Neville joins 17 other faculty members as CAS Professors with permanent appointments. CAS professors deliver the annual lecture, serve on the committee that selects the CAS associates and fellows each year, and are called upon for advice on matters related to the center.
Deans, directors, department heads, and current CAS professors submit nominations of the campus’s most productive faculty members for permanent appointment to the center.
Historically, her research primarily focused on two interrelated areas in the study of racial beliefs: color-blind racial ideology or the systematic set of beliefs that deny or minimize institutional racism and racial identity attitudes, particularly the influence of positive, internalized racial attitudes on well-being. More recently, her research has moved in the direction of healing, particularly healing from racial and other intersecting forms of trauma.
Neville becomes the second College of Education faculty member named CAS professor, joining James D. Anderson, professor emeritus.
