About

Professor Margarita Azmitia is part of the Global and Community Health Program, which is integrated within both the Social Sciences Division and Physical & Biological Sciences Division. The program emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to healthcare and public health, involving faculty from across all five academic divisions. Students in the program engage in interdisciplinary classes throughout their degree programs, supported by staff dedicated to ensuring their success and preparation for careers aimed at creating a healthier world. The faculty, including Professor Azmitia, contribute to the learning and research community focused on global and community health issues.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Psychology
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Geography
• World Wide Web
• Genealogy
• History
• Psychotherapist
• Developmental psychology
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• Honoring Complexity: Five Methodological Commitments for Using Reflexive Thematic Analysis in Identity Research

  Identity · 2026-04-10

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• A Content Analysis of YouTube College-Advice Videos: How They Can Help First-Generation College Students Navigate the Hidden Curriculum

  Journal of First-generation Student Success · 2026-03-23 · 1 citations

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• Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.

  American Psychologist · 2025-06-02 · 2 citations

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  Recruitment, promotion, tenure, and retention of faculty of color remain significant challenges in academia. Despite an increasingly diverse population, the representation of faculty of color in tenure-track and senior faculty positions remains disproportionately low. Structural barriers, including bias in hiring and faculty evaluations, misalignment between academic culture and cultural values, unequal distribution of service labor, and limited access to mentorship and leadership opportunities, continue to hinder the advancement of faculty of color across academic ranks. This report summary from the American Psychological Association's "Task Force Report on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology" examines these systemic issues. It provides actionable recommendations for institutions to foster an equitable academic environment. Key strategies include enhancing recruitment efforts, implementing transparent and equitable tenure and promotion policies, addressing bias in evaluation metrics, and strengthening mentorship and retention initiatives. Additionally, the report emphasizes the importance of recognizing nontraditional scholarship, ensuring fair distribution of service responsibilities, and supporting leadership development for faculty of color. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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• Age-Related Variations in Using Solitude as a Resource During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Journal of Adult Development · 2025-09-29

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• Intergroup relations

  Elsevier eBooks · 2024-01-01

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• First-Generation College Students’ Intergenerational Narratives of Redemption and Upward Mobility

  Parenting · 2024-10-17 · 2 citations

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• Research with Hard-to-Reach Emerging Adult Populations

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024-12-19

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  Abstract This chapter suggests strategies for recruiting hard-to-reach adolescents and emerging adults, in particular, low-income, immigrant, ethno-racial minorities, first-generation college students, undocumented students, unhoused, and LGBTQIA+ youth. Developing trust and providing empathy, compassion, and respect are essential for recruiting these vulnerable populations who have often experienced discrimination, legal consequences, inequities, and even violence that have eroded their belief in democracy, meritocracy, and social justice. Long-term collaborations with families, community centers and organizations, clubs and youth-led organizations, schools, universities, and other places frequented by youth are essential for recruiting these hard-to-reach populations. In addition, random sampling is seldom possible with these vulnerable and transient youth, so snowball sampling, flyers, word-of-mouth, establishing a presence in neighborhoods, providing stipends, and creating safe spaces for data collection are also essential and will ensure that theory and research address the development of hard-to-reach adolescents and emerging adults.

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• Social Identities and Intersectionality: A Conversation About the What and the How of Development

  Annual Review of Developmental Psychology · 2023-12-11 · 24 citations

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  Research on the development of social identities in early and middle childhood has largely focused on gender; increasingly, however, theory and research have addressed the development of ethnic/racial, social class, sexual, and immigrant identities. Moreover, it is assumed that individuals’ thinking about and articulating of the intersectionality between their social identities emerge in adolescence and young adulthood, but a growing body of work has shown that minoritized children conceptualize their intersectional identities by middle childhood. This article reviews that work and addresses how interdisciplinary scholarship and quantitative and qualitative methodologies can deepen our understanding of the development of social identities and intersectionality. We take a contextual approach to investigate how relational and cultural contexts contour the socialization of social and intersectional identities. Most of our review focuses on theory and research in the United States; however, because we aim to consider immigrant identity, we also include theory and research on how immigrant families and communities help minoritized children and youth navigate their identities in schools and communities and cope with discrimination.

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• Referee report. For: A comparative study of four-year and community college students' subjective experiences of emerging adulthood, belonging needs, and well-being [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]

  Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2023-01-01

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• Self-determination buffers the association between negative motivations for solitude and maladjustment among older adults

  Personality and Individual Differences · 2022-11-15 · 2 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Moin Syed

  University of Minnesota

  13 shared

• Xinyin Chen

  University of Pennsylvania

  11 shared

• Virginia Thomas

  Middlebury College

  9 shared

• Catherine R. Cooper

  8 shared

• Kimberley Radmacher

  7 shared

• Angela Ittel

  Technische Universität Berlin

  7 shared

• Marion Perlmutter

  7 shared

• William E. Merriman

  Kent State University

  5 shared