Victoria Isaac
Graduate Research Assistant
Pronouns: she/her/hers
About
Victoria Isaac is a doctoral student in Sociology and a Pipeline to an Inclusive Faculty (PIF) fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Her research interests encompass race, religion, education, and public space. Victoria explores processes of race-making within the Black American community, the co-constitution of race and religion, and how Black Americans advocate for and claim belonging for themselves within educational and religious spaces. Her projects have explored the association between arts education and student achievement and attainment for Black and Latinx students, the different ways students across racial groups avoid discussions of race at Christian colleges, and the impact of places of worship on crime rates within Milwaukee neighborhoods, particularly within predominantly Black neighborhoods. As a dancer and dance educator, Victoria’s artistic practice is rooted in the philosophy that creative expression has continuously served as a site for reimagining societal systems and fueling community, both necessary for the liberation of all marginalized groups.
Victoria is a research assistant at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP). She previously earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Dance and Sociology and her Master of Arts degree in Sociology, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Victoria is an alum of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program.