Roderick Carey, Ph.D.

Roderick L. Carey, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware (UD). He is also the Founder of The Black Boy Mattering Project, which investigates how adolescent Black boys and young men articulate their mattering across multiple school and social domains. Dr. Carey’s has published extensively on how Black ways Black and Latino adolescent boys and young men conceptualize their postsecondary school futures and enact college-going processes.  He and colleagues at the UD Partnership for Public Education recently launched www.findingfutureselves.org , where educators and youth workers can find a video, research-based insights, tools, and lesson plans to support youth in finding their postsecondary future selves. Dr. Carey received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration on Minority and Urban Education, from the University of Maryland College Park; his Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education; and his B.A. in Secondary Education and English from the Lynch School of Education and Human Development of Boston College. He spent four years working in urban charter schools in Washington, D.C., as a high school English teacher, coach, performing arts coordinator, and instructional leader. His articles have been published in outlets including  Journal of Adolescent Research, Harvard Educational Review, American Journal of Education, Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Education and Urban Society, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Urban Education. He serves on local community boards, most recently being appointed to the Board of Trustees at Salesianum School, an all-boys Catholic school in Wilmington, DE. He serves on three journal editorial boards, and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Adolescent Research. He is a husband, son, uncle, cousin, and a proud father.