Sheridan Wigginton, PhD
Author, Advocate, and Academic
Dr. Sheridan Wigginton is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at California Lutheran University. She has a doctorate in Foreign Language Curriculum and Instruction and a Master’s degree in Spanish with an emphasis in applied linguistics, both from the University of Missouri. She has served as president of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association since 2014 and held research fellowships at the Antiana and Caribana Collection at the University of Curaçao and at the City University of New York Dominican Studies Institute.
“Sheridan Wigginton, PhD is adept at building a DEI-grounded search process, that is committed to hiring and retaining outstanding colleagues.”
Sheridan has extensive experience chairing faculty and staff search committees in higher education. As an Equity Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for Urban Education, she was instrumental in the creation of the “Equity Advocate” role as part of the faculty search process at California Lutheran University.
She is the co-author, along with Richard T. Middleton IV, of the book Unmastering the Script: Education, Critical Race Theory, and the Struggle to Reconcile the Haitian Other in Dominican Identity (University of Alabama Press: 2019).
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