Bio
Dr. Sydney Richardson has over fifteen years in higher education work. She began her time in higher education as a Writing Center Director and English Instructor. From there, she has worked as an Assistant Professor of Education with an Affiliate faculty position in Women and Gender Studies; a Dean of Adult Education; a Dean of College and Career Readiness; and Department Chair of Leadership Studies and Adult Education. Dr. Richardson currently serves as Associate Professor of Leadership Studies. Her research covers two areas: 1) gender, work, and leadership development, specifically in the United States, and 2) educational equity and access in non-traditional environments.
Dr. Richardson has worked at a small, private institution, a community college, and a public university. She has a B.A in Political Science; a M.A. in English and African American Literature; and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies, with a Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies.
Research Interests
DEIBJ in Adult Learning Spaces
Narrative Research; Counter-storytelling
Women Entre-employees
Authentic Leadership
Community Leadership
External URL
https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/ncid-diversity-scholars-network.detail.html/NCID-2065.html
Recent Publications
- Sydney Richardson (2024). (Embodied Somatic Leadership as Practiced in In the Time of the Butterflies). In Randal Joy Thompson and Lazarina N. Topuzova, (Women Embodied Leaders: Peacebuilding, Protest, and Professions) pp. 296.
- Sydney Richardson, Brenda Reuter (2024). (Mentoring in virtual graduate interdisciplinary programs). (1) 18, pp. 6. Journal of Leadership Studies.
- Sydney Richardson (2024). (When Participants Embody the Answer: A Narrative Case Study of Community Leadership ). (4) 8, pp. 87-108. American Journal of Qualitative Research.
- Sydney Richardson, Sharrika Adams (2023). (Caring in the Community: Advocacy for ESL Students Through Social Constructivism and Case Management Practices). (2) 30, pp. 13. Journal of Applied Research in the Community College.
- Richardson, S.D. (2023). Centering Race Within Adult Education Theory in the United States. pp. 17. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.
- Eric Kaufman, Sydney Richardson, Nicole Stedman (2023). (Graduate Students as Leaders and Followers: Effective Practices for Mentoring and Being Mentored). pp. 7. Journal of Leadership Studies.
- Sydney Richardson (2023). (Higher education leaders as entre-employees: A narrative study). (3) 7, pp. 1-18. American Journal of Qualitative Research.
- Richardson, S.D. (2023). Making the Entrepreneurial Transition: Understanding the Challenges of Women Entre-Employees. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Richardson, S.D. and Sakho,J. (2022). Creating Equitable Access: Using OER for Socially Just Educational Leaders. pp. 13. Journal of Multicultural Education.
- Jackson, K.T., Richardson, S.D., and Moss-Breen, J. (2022). Enacting a diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice emphasis in graduate and professional leadership education, 176, pp. 75-87. New Directions for Student Leadership.
- Richardson, S.D., (2017). Using Mistreatment to Persist Academically (1) 23, pp. 32-48. Journal of Adult and Continuing Education.
- Sydney Richardson, Jacqueline Roebuck Sakho ("Creating equitable access: using OER for socially just educational leaders").
