Adriana Janette Umaña-Taylor is an American professor of education in the

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. Prior to this, she was a faculty member in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public university, public research university in Tempe, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1885 as Territorial Normal School by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, the university is o ...

, where she worked from 2004 until 2017, starting as an

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and advancing through the ranks of

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and

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, eventually being named a Foundation Professor. Umaña-Taylor's first position after graduate school was at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

in the Human and Community Development Department.

Education and research

She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in Psychology and Child Development and Family Relationships, respectively, from the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 students as of fall 2 ...

and her Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

in Columbia in 2001. Umaña-Taylor is most known for her research on Latino adolescent adjustment and ethnic-racial identity development.

Awards

* 2017 - Umaña-Taylor was conferred a fellow of the

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. * 2018 - Umaña-Taylor was recognized "renowned psychologist" and elected to the governing Council of Representatives of the

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, in Division 45, Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race.

References

External links

* https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/adriana-umana-taylor {{DEFAULTSORT:Umana Taylor, Adriana Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women psychologists 21st-century American psychologists Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty University of Missouri alumni American women academics 21st-century American women