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  1. Analyzing the Purposes and Mechanisms of Faculty Cluster Hiring Initiatives to Promote Racial Equity

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Roman Liera

  2. Tinkering Toward Racial Equity: White Community College Faculty Disrupting and Preserving Their White Innocence

    Article • Community College Journal of Research and Practice, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Roman Liera

  3. Postdoctoral of Color Racialized Agency Toward Tenure-Track Careers

    Article • AERA Open, July 2025, SAGE Publications

    Roman Liera

  4. PhD students of color navigating the academic job market during COVID-19

    Article • Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Roman Liera

  5. Postdoctoral scholars of color and their perceptions of equity-minded mentoring practices.

    Article • Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, March 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Roman Liera

  6. The Equity Scorecard and Equity-Minded Higher Education and Student Affairs Practitioners

    Article • Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Roman Liera

  7. Challenging Presidential Selection Done White: How to Remediate Racial Exclusion in the Recruitment and Selection of College and University Leadership

    Article • Change The Magazine of Higher Learning, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Roman Liera

  8. “I’m a Needed Commodity in the Academy”: Racial Capitalism and the Positioning of Race as Capital in the Faculty Job Market

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, November 2024, Project Muse

    Roman Liera

  9. Nice for What? The Contradictions and Tensions of an Urban District’s Racial Equity Transformation

    Article • Education Sciences, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Roman Liera

  10. The White Way to Hire Presidents: Racism in the Search and Appointment Process

    Article • AERA Open, January 2024, SAGE Publications

    Roman Liera

  11. A Composite Counterstory of Latinx Faculty Navigating and Resisting a Culture of Niceness

    Article • Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Roman Liera

  12. Rethinking doctoral qualifying exams and candidacy in the physical sciences: Learning toward scientific legitimacy

    Article • Physical Review Physics Education Research, August 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Roman Liera

  13. Taking equity-mindedness to the next level: the equity-minded organization

    Article • Frontiers in Education, July 2023, Frontiers

    Roman Liera

  14. When Race Becomes Capital: Diversity, Faculty Hiring, and the Entrenchment of Racial Capitalism in Higher Education

    Article • Educational Researcher, May 2023, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Roman Liera

  15. Expanding Faculty Members’ Zone of Proximal Development to Enact Collective Agency for Racial Equity in Faculty Hiring

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Roman Liera

  16. Hispanic-Serving Institutions as Racialized Organizations: Elevating Intersectional Consciousness to Reframe the “H” in HSIs

    Article • AERA Open, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Roman Liera

  17. Color-evasive Racism in the Final Stage of Faculty Searches: Examining Search Committee Hiring Practices that Jeopardize Racial Equity Policy

    Article • The Review of Higher Education, January 2021, Project Muse

    Roman Liera

  18. Equity Advocates Using Equity-Mindedness to Interrupt Faculty Hiring's Racial Structure

    Article • Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Roman Liera

  19. Faculty changing their hiring structure to advance racial equity

    Article • American Educational Research Journal, December 2019, American Educational Research Association (AERA)

    Postdoctoral Research Associate Roman Liera, Roman Liera

  20. Faculty working across the silos of higher education to advance racial equity

    Article • The Journal of Higher Education, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Postdoctoral Research Associate Roman Liera, Roman Liera

  21. Sustaining change towards racial equity through cycles of inquiry

    Article • Education Policy Analysis Archives, May 2018, Education Policy Analysis Archives

    Postdoctoral Research Associate Roman Liera, Roman Liera