Tera R. Jordan

Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Human Development & Family Studies

Iowa State University, Office of the Senior Vice President and Provost, College of Human Sciences

Dr. Tera R. Jordan is the Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and an Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and at Iowa State University. Dr. Jordan’s research program centers on health-focused intervention programming, community-based studies, and African American families and men. She utilizes this skill base to study family well-being. She has received internal and external grant funding to support her research and published in high-quality journals under her name, Tera R. Hurt. In instruction, she has taught advanced qualitative methods and mixed methods. An award-winning scholar, her department, the College of Human Sciences, Iowa State, Faculty of Women of Color in the Academy, and Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis have honored her dedication and commitment to teaching and mentoring, community engagement, and diversity enhancement and inclusive excellence. Prior to her faculty appointment in 2012, Dr. Jordan earned a dual-title Ph.D. in HDFS and Demography from The Pennsylvania State University in 2005 and worked at the University of Georgia from 2004 to 2012.