Valandra Data-verified

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University of Arkansas

Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

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6 h-index 19 pubs 124 cited

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Valandra's research investigates social issues including intimate partner violence, racial injustice, and the experiences of Black women in academic settings. Her work utilizes grounded theory approaches to understand complex social phenomena. She has published on the historical context of African American incarceration and the sociopolitical development of palliative care in Namibia. Current projects include an antiracist community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) approach to honor victims of racial terror lynching in Washington County, Arkansas. Valandra collaborates with LaShawnda Fields, Whitney Sober, and RoAnne Elliott from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She has authored 19 publications with 118 citations and an h-index of 6.

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h-index: 6
Publications: 19
Citations: 124

Selected Publications

An Antiracist CBPAR Approach to Honoring Victims of Racial Terror Lynching in Washington County, Arkansas (2025)

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Standing in the gap: how Black women mentors make the academy bearable for other Black women (2024)

9 citations DOI OpenAlex
Sociopolitical Development of Palliative Care in Namibia on Three Social System Levels (2023)

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The History of Incarceration of African Americans/Blacks in the United States (2022)

1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Navigating an anti-Black campus climate: #black@pwi (2022)

22 citations DOI OpenAlex