Diversity Equity & Inclusion Reading List 

iDigBio’s Education, Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion team has compiled a reading list of mostly academic literature (i.e., papers and books) related broadly to topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion with a special focus on natural sciences and museums

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Resources for Departments

We asked entomologists around North America what their departments are doing to improve inclusivity in entomology. We’ve consolidated all their answers here as a resource for other departments (not just entomology/biology) to use. What can you do in your department this year?

Bring youth into the community

Outreach

• Target schools with diverse populations.
• Target under-represented communities (e.g., Native land or predominantly Black communities)

Recruit high school students

• Summer work programs and field courses

Diversify recruitment strategies

Recruit at diverse conferences

• SACNAS 
• MANRRS 

Correct inequitable recruitment strategies

• Remove GRE requirement while emphasizing personal statement and letters of recommendation (graduate school)
• Value service and pro-diversity activity on CVs
• Advertise positions with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and EntoPOC Job Board

Assess if candidates are contributing to DEI

• Berkley rubric for assessment

Identify your implicit bias

• Take an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to identify your own biases
• Require leaders in your department (e.g., search committees, mentors, teachers, chairs) to identify their biases with an IAT

​Supporting programs

• McNair Scholar Program
• LSAMP​
• POSSE
• SciMed GRS
• McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program (Florida only)

EntoPOC Publications

• ​Dominic A Evangelista, Aaron Goodman, Manpreet K Kohli, Stephanie S T Bondocgawa Maflamills, Michelle Samuel-Foo, Melissa Sanchez Herrera, Jessica L Ware, Megan Wilson, Why Diversity Matters Among Those Who Study Diversity, American Entomologist, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2020, Pages 42–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/ae/tmaa037 
• Dominic A Evangelista, Melissa Sanchez-Herrera, Johanna Schwartz, Jessica L Ware, Bryce Hughes, Lauren Esposito, Ramya Banda, Katherine O Montana, Salka’Tuwa Bondoc Mafla, Aaron Goodman, Manpreet K Kohli, Evaluating perceptions of STEM majors to explain diversity gaps in entomology and other sciences, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2025;, saaf035, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/saaf035​