Adeeba Deterville
Assistant Professor
Transformative Inquiry
Undergraduate Studies
School of Undergraduate Studies
Email: adeterville@ciis.edu
Research Interests
African/Black Psychology
Biography
Adeeba D. Deterville, Ph.D. (Dr. Dee) earned her doctorate from CIIS in Transformative Studies. Dr. Dee’s work is guided by her dissertation titled “Sankofa Praxis — An Africentric Meta-Theory of Sankofa and Jegnaship — as a Reclamation of Africentric Episteme, Psychology, Spiritness and Personhood: A Scholarly Personal Narrative of Cultural Retrieval, Alignment and Actualization.”
Adeeba has been an active member of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) since 1989. At the national level, she served as Committee Co-Chair for ABPsi’s Certification in African Black Psychology. Additionally, she served as Chair of the General Assembly (GA), where her duties included providing leadership to GA Vice-Chair, GA Secretary and eleven sub-committees.
Dr. Dee is retired from the faculty of the School of Undergraduate Studies Bachelor of Science Psychology at CIIS and served on the Faculty Evaluation, Promotions and Sabbatical Committee. She is also founder and former Program Manager of the Black Psychology Project at CIIS, as well as founding Director of the Center for Black & Indigenous Praxis at CIIS.
She is a wife, mother, and grandmother to eleven children. Dr. Dee is a practitioner of African-rooted spiritual traditions. She finds personal joy being in nature, caring for houseplants, and the African aesthetics of fashion, home décor, art, and music.
Education
Ph.D. Transformative Studies, CIIS
M.A. Transpersonal Studies, ITP
B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies CIIS