Dr. Hope takes an assets-based approach to explore factors that promote academic, civic, and psychological well-being for racially marginalized adolescents and emerging adults. Dr. Hope has two primary lines of research.
1) Examining psychological and contextual factors related to education, schooling, and academic well-being for underrepresented racial minority students.
2) Investigating how sociopolitical attitudes, beliefs, and experiences (e.g., justice, discrimination, efficacy) relate to civic engagement from early adolescence into emerging adulthood.