Program in Urban Higher Education. She earned the B.S. degree from Jackson State University (JSU), the M.S. degree from Loyola University, the Ed.S. degree from JSU, and the Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Bishop served as Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership at JSU from 2007 to 2012. As a member of the JSU (STEM) Advance Research team she traveled to South Africa to establish a research partnership with faculty at select universities in South Africa in 2012. Dr. Bishop was a guest lecturer at Durbin Technology and Kwazuland Natal University of Durbin, South Africa in 2011. She has also traveled to and conducted extensive research with international faculty in Central/South America, Brazil and Africa. Her areas of research are Cultural Studies, Ethnography, and Culture, Race, Inequality and Urban Education.