Meet Our Director

Cedric Hackett, Ed.D. is a professor in the department of Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge and the director of the DuBois-Hamer Institute for Academic Achievement, which supports student success through community and Apis partnerships. He is also the incoming Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA.  Dr. Hackett received his Doctor of Education degree in Higher Education Leadership at California Lutheran University in 2011.  He was a recipient of the prestigious Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program designed to assist students who are interested in teaching in the California State University. His research interests are broad, spanning from leadership, identity development, athletics and student development & engagement, to racially engaging pedagogy and the psychological and sociological nature of underrepresented groups (i.e. experiences of Black Men in higher education). His scholarship includes Get In Where You Fit In: Understanding Engaged Learning in an African-centered Environment (Journal of Negro Education, 2018) and Kufundisha: An Innovative Teaching Approach for Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (Journal for Pan African Studies, 2016).