Gilman W. Whiting

Professor Whiting believes his greatest asset is teaching. Working with students from primary grades on the weekends and summers to undergrads through Ph.D. He serves as the director of graduate studies in the Department of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. He created the Scholar Identity Model, serves as the director of the Scholar Identity Institute, the Black male initiative, and chairs the Achievement Gap Consortium.

His published research includes psychological and social behaviors of underperformance and disparity with special and gifted education students, the sociology of race and culture, culturally relevant pedagogy, family, and community involvement, qualitative research methods, and young fatherhood initiatives.

Professor consults with school districts and programs nationally and internationally. He has lectured on four continents; his research has been adopted in Australia, Belize, Brazil, Bermuda, India, and South Africa.

A former world-class runner and triathlete, he is also a retired combat US Army officer, a 2018 Black Belt Hall of Fame inductee, a 2018 Purdue University Distinguished Alumnus, and a proud father.