Vice Chancellor Guerrero
Lisa Guerrero, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)
Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusive Excellence
Dr. Lisa Guerrero has been an active advocate for equity and social justice at WSU since joining the faculty in Comparative Ethnic Studies in 2004. During her time at WSU she has served in various capacities including graduate director of the program in American Studies and chair of the University Common Requirements committee (UCORE).
Dr. Guerrero joined the Provost’s office in 2020 as the Associate Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusive Excellence providing leadership to academic affairs in implementing WSU’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. In her role as associate vice provost she helped to identify and implement best practices and evidence-based approaches in faculty hiring, tenure and promotion, research support, faculty retention, teaching and mentoring, and curriculum planning, collaborating with faculty and staff systemwide, and coordinating efforts with the Division of Student Affairs, the Office of Compliance and Civil Rights, Institutional Research, campus leadership, and other units.
As the inaugural Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusive Excellence for WSU Pullman, she draws on the work she began in her associate vice provost’s role and will continually work collaboratively with campus and institutional units to develop and implement equity-minded practices and programs in an integrated way that will serve the specific faculty, staff, and student communities that make up the WSU Pullman campus.
Guerrero earned her bachelor’s degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, with a double major in Black Studies and English, and holds a Ph.D. in Literature, with a particular focus on 20th century African American literature, from University of California, Santa Cruz. Her scholarship is interdisciplinary and is dedicated to thinking about the impact of intersectionalities in structures and practices of oppression and marginalization, and the relationships between culture and power. Her central research and teaching interests include African American literature, Black masculinity, African American satire and humor, critical popular culture studies, race and commodity culture, social justice, and cultural studies. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on African American literature, Black masculinity, and race and popular culture, and the book Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire and the Method of Madness (Routledge, 2019).