J. Camille Hall

J. Camille Hall is the former vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. She was the inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion and the first black female full professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Hall's research focuses on African American risk and resilience and multicultural education.

Education and career

Hall grew up in rural Arkansas. She joined the United States Army in 1985, and she worked for the United States Army Reserve as a clinical social work officer with Irwin Army Community Hospital in Fort Riley, Kansas starting in 1990, and retired in November 2020. She completed her Ph.D. in 2004 in social work with a specialization area of mixed-method research methodologies for the evaluation of risk and resilience among African Americans, clinical social work practice, and multicultural competence at Smith College. From 2000 until 2004, Hall was the program director for Bachelor's of Social Work program at Philander Smith College. As of 2020, Hall is the first Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion within the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. In 2022 she was named vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

Research Hall is known for her work on African American risk, resilience, and multicultural education. She has examined the role of skin color stratification, 'colorism', in the mental health of Africa American women, and has examined workplace discrimination against African American women. Hall has also done research on adult children of alcoholics, which she talks about this book.

Selected publications