Brendesha Tynes, Assistant Professor
Contact
African American Studies
and Educational Psychology
226 Education Bldg.
217.333.7781
tynes@illinois.edu
Biography
Brendesha Tynes is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the role of the Internet in child and adolescent development with special attention to intergroup relations and racial/ethnic identity. She is also interested in the social and psychological effects of having African American history and culture incorporated into mainstream curricula in K-12 classrooms. Her current research explores the uses of online multicultural education curricula to reduce prejudice.
Tynes received a B.A. in History from Columbia University in 1997, an M.A. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 2001 and a Ph.D. in Psychological Studies in Education from UCLA in 2005. She is the recipient of a Ford Pre-doctoral Diversity Fellowship and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Educational Researcher Association. Tynes has published articles in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology and her book chapter, "Children, Adolescents and the Culture of Online Hate", will appear in the Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence in the fall of 2005.