The Stanford Center for Racial Justice is delighted to announce that Dr. Jordan Starck, an IDEAL Provostial Fellow at the University, will be advising SCRJ on the intersections of race, justice, bias, and psychology. Additionally, he will teach a winter quarter practicum course in collaboration with SCRJ—our second Racial Justice Practicum—where students will study race, bias, and the law and have the unique opportunity to support his ongoing research, as well as the varying projects and initiatives at the Center.

Dr. Starck graduated from Davidson College in 2012 with a BS in psychology and his professional educator’s license. He spent four years as a high school teacher and youth program coordinator. In 2021, he completed his PhD in social psychology and social policy at Princeton University.

Since the fall of 2021, Dr. Starck has been a member of Stanford’s first cohort of IDEAL Provostial Fellows, a group of early-career scholars in the study of race and ethnicity. His research investigates organizational diversity commitments, racial bias, and racial inequality, often in the context of education. Combined with his teaching, Dr. Starck’s research aims to address individuals’ prejudices, people and organizations’ ways of committing to diversity, teaching about systemic racism, and how media may be used to improve racial attitudes and race relations. He describes this work as grappling with how systems of racialized oppression dynamically reproduce themselves amidst norms that have tended to be more egalitarian over time—“and then I try to understand what we can do about it.”

“I’m proud of the occasions in which I’ve learned of folks working to improve the status quo and using my work in their efforts to fix it,” Dr. Starck said. “I’m also proud when my students feel inspired and equipped to go forth from class and take on these hard issues.”

It is with tremendous excitement that SCRJ welcomes Dr. Starck to our community.