Bio
Dr. Emily Hunt-Hinojosa is the Senior Research Scholar and Associate Director of Partnerships for the Educating Character Initiative (ECI). Through the ECI, Emily works across institutions to study, support, and evaluate character efforts for a wide variety of colleges and universities. She collaborates closely with ECI community members to facilitate and assess high impact curricular and co-curricular experiences that form character.
Prior to joining the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University, Emily served on faculty at Baylor University where she also held an administrative appointment in the Office of Engaged Learning. She received her M.A. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Taylor University, her Ph.D. in Sociology from Baylor, and was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She grew up in nearby Greensboro, NC.
Her work focuses broadly on character and social change, pedagogies and practices within institutions, and evaluation. Her conceptions of character and culture have been shaped by her study of Sociology, administrative work in residence life and experiential learning, and her Indigenous lineage (Lumbee and European).