{"id":72310,"date":"2024-02-06T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=72310"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:31:54","slug":"vincent-l-stephens","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/vincent-l-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent L. Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"-Tf-236\" aria-label=\"4. Official Bio (Please aim for 100 \u2013 150 words; include any center or institute appointments) Multi Line Text Required to answer \">\n<div class=\"-yO-288 \" data-automation-id=\"questionContent\">\n<div class=\"-Fp-290 \">\n<div class=\"--av-304\">\n<div class=\"-DN-307\"><span>Vincent L. Stephens is the Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Success at Boston University. Stephens co-edited 2017\u2019s Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study and wrote 2019\u2019s Rocking the Closet: How Little Richard, Johnnie Ray, Liberace, and Johnny Mathis Queered Pop Music, and 2025&#8217;s Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television. His essays have also appeared in numerous scholarly journals, edited collections, and encyclopedias. Vincent served as the President of the Pennsylvania chapter for the National Association for Multicultural Education (PA-NAME) 2020-21, and as Vice-President, Board of Directors, for the Carlisle, Pennsylvania based Leadership, Education, and Farming (LEAF) Project PA, in 2020. He completed his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland College Park and has held leadership roles in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, Boston University, and at Dickinson College and Bucknell University.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"-Tf-236\" aria-label=\"5. Areas of Expertise\u00a0(We recommend listing three and no more than five in concise searchable terms. Ex: first Amendment, women in politics, American politics) Single line text Required to answer \">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"-yO-288 \" data-automation-id=\"questionContent\">\n<div id=\"QuestionId_rac35a93a66d44ab3a24c6d2d0b6dc68d\" class=\"-mJ-293\">\n<div class=\"-si-294\" data-automation-id=\"questionTitle\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":23087,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72970,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/72310\/revisions\/72970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}