Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Sophia Mihic

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Sophia Mihic

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Sophia

Mihic

Coordinator; Professor

Expertise

Political Theory, Anglo-Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, “Race,” Class, and the Politics of the Legal Order, The History of Political Thought

Courses Taught

ZHON 193 – Honors Introduction to the Social Sciences

PSCI 216 – American National Government

PSCI/PHIL 390 – Classical Political Theory

PSCI/PHIL 390 Modern Political Theory

PSCI 392 – WIP: Contemporary Political Theory

PHIL 345 – Social and Political Philosophy

PSCI 382/PHIL 382 – Marx Seminar

PHIL 389 – Foucault Seminar

PHIL 387 – Arendt Seminar

PSCI 401 – Classics of Political Science

PSCI 491 – Arendt Seminar

Research Interests

Dr. Mihic’s research and teaching focuses on the philosophy of interpretive inquiry in the social sciences, the work of Hannah Arendt, and the structural grounds of order and identity politics in 20th and now 21st century democracies. She also teaches and writes on the history of political thought, literature and political theory and the politics of the legal order. She was a fellow at the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy, Rutgers University—where she was awarded a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation—and a fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana.

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2000

M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

B.A., Political Science, University of Florida 1982

Selected Publications

“‘the end was in the beginning’: Melville, Ellison and the Democratic Death of Progress in Typee,” Jason Frank, ed. The Political Companion to Herman Melville, University of Kentucky Press, January 2014

“Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing,” Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly, Alan Finlayson, ed., Routledge, October 2009

“Facts, Values and ‘Real’ Numbers: Making Sense In and Of Political Science,” with Stephen G. Engelmann and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, George Steinmetz, ed., Duke University Press, 2005

“Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Privacy: An Experiment in Feminist Theorizing,” Feminist Theory, 9(2), August 2008

S-Mihic@neiu.edu

Office Hours

TBA

Curriculum Vitae

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LWH 2074
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5652

Political Science

Philosophy

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Main Campus

BarBara Scott

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BarBara Scott

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BarBara

Scott

Professor Emeritus

Expertise

Marriages and Families, Africana (aka Black) Women's Studies, Sociology of Racism, Race and Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Gender; Social Inequalities; Social Justice and Resistance; Race, Racism and White Privilege; Popular Culture, Critical Race Theory, Feminist/Womanist Theory, and HIV/AIDS in African American Communities. I have also developed and teach a course annually entitled: African American Women: Feminism, Race and Resistance.

Courses Taught

AFAM 109: First Year Experience: Exploring Africa In Chicago

AFAM 200: Introduction to African and African Studies

SOC 344: Afric. Amer. Women: Feminism, Race, Resistance

Research Interests

By most definitions I am a generalist. However, I have strong interests in a number of areas including HIV/AIDS in Black Communities, institutional racism, Black migration and patterns of residential settlement, Black Folk Lore, African Cultural Continuities in African American Families, Black Women and Upward Mobility, and Media and Society. Indeed, one of my long-time teaching interests has revolved around the use of media, especially literature and film, in teaching sociology and an ongoing research interest in the sociological relationships within and between modern media and modern culture. In particular, I am interested in what popular culture and the media tell us about the social structures (especially race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and generational differences), the social processes, and the everyday life of postmodern American society. Current Research Activities Co-editing (with Marcia Segal) 6th edition of Race, Gender, and Class in Sociology:Toward an Inclusive Curriculum. Washington, DC: The American Sociological Association Press. Collecting data on Parents with Adult Children Living at Home Conducting Case Studies of African American Women Living With HIV/AIDS Working on a series of edited white papers on the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Black Community

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 1988, Northwestern University

M.Ph., Community College Education, 1975, Roosevelt University

M.A., Sociology, 1975, Roosevelt University

B.A., Sociology, 1971, Roosevelt University

Selected Publications

Schwartz, Mary Ann and Scott, BarBara M. 2007. Marriages and Families: Diversity and Change. 5th edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Scott, BarBara M. and Schwartz, M.A. 2006. Sociology: Making Sense of the Social World. 2nd edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Lemelle, Anthony, Jr., and Scott, BarBara M. 2006. "African American HIV/AIDS and Social Institutions: New Realities Calling for New Policies." In Juan Battle, Michael Bennett, and Anthony Lemelle (Eds.), Free At Last?: Black America in the Twenty-First Century. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. pp. 103-126.

Scott, BarBara, Misra, Joya, & Segal, Marcia. 2003. Race, Gender, and Class in Sociology:Toward an Inclusive Curriculum. (5th ed.). Washington, DC: The American Sociological Association Press.

Selected Performances

Annual Workshop. 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. "Teaching Sociology Through Literature and Film." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meetings.

Organizer/Presider. 2005. "Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in the Media." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Staged Reading and Discussion (with Martha Thompson). 2005. "Working Class Women Sleuths Clean Up!!-Blanche White Meets Lily Bard: Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Women's Dectective Fiction." Midwest Sociological Society, Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

Symposium Participant. 2003. "HIV/AIDS Intervention for Women with Multiple Sexual Partners Living in Impoverished Housing." University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, Hefter Center.

Additional Information

Recent Professional Service and Community Involvement

President (2005-2006), Association of Black Sociologists

Co-Chair (Current), NEIU Presidential Task Force on the Millennium Student

Volunteer Faculty, St. Leonard's Alternative High School for Ex-Offenders

Member, Links, Inc. Services to African American Youth Projects

Mentor, 91Porn, Minority Mentor Program

Mentor, Sister-to-Sister Mentor Advisory Group

Chair, Advisory Committee on Student Retention, 91Porn

Board Member: Ora Higgins Youth Foundation

Member, American Sociological Association; Midwest Sociological Society; and Midwest Sociologists for Women in Society (MSWS)

b-scott1@neiu.edu

Office Hours

N/A

5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4775

Sociology

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

African and African American Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Main Campus

Shelley A. Bannister Ph.D., J.D.

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Shelley A. Bannister Ph.D., J.D.

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Shelley

Bannister

Courses Taught

JUST 101 Introduction to Social Justice

JUST 202 WIP: Justice and Inequality

JUST 311 Women, Crime and the Criminal Justice System

JUST 321 Violence Against Women

JUST 324 Women as Political Prisoners

JUST 345 Practicum in Justice Studies

JUST 350 Field Work Seminar

JUST 380 Writing for Social Change

Research Interests

I study men's violence against women and children; incarceration and the use of the criminal justice system to destroy lives; and poverty and education. I am interested in the use of humor in formal and informal settings to promote learning about these topics.

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology with a concentration in Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1996
• M.A., Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1987
• J.D., Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, 1978
• B.A., Sociology, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, 1974

S-Bannister@neiu.edu

Office Hours

Fall 2016: Not teaching.

5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5953

Fax

(773) 442-4537

Ph.D., J.D.

Justice Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

El Centro

Main Campus

Nancy A. Matthews

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Nancy A. Matthews

Ymelda Robles Thu, 05/22/2014 - 13:57

Nancy

Matthews

Professor Emerita

Courses Taught

N/A

Research Interests

N/A

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1989
• M.A., Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1983
• B.A., Sociology, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1978

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Americal Sociological Association

Law and Society Association

Society for the Study of Social Problems

National Women’s Studies Association

Peace and Justice Studies Association

n-matthews@neiu.edu

Office Hours

None

Justice Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Main Campus

Laurie Fuller

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Laurie Fuller

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Laurie

Fuller

Professor and Program Advisor

Expertise

Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, LGBTQ Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Race Studies

Courses Taught

WGS 101: Women's Perspective and Values

WGS 201: Feminist Ideas

WGS 210: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies

WGS 302: Feminist Theory

WGS 311: Lesbian and Queer Cultures

WGS 350: Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies

SOC 306: American Women: The Changing Image

Research Interests

Social Construction of Whiteness, Feminist Pedagogy, Queer Theory and Practice, Anti Violence Work, Community Accountability and Transformative Justice

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1996

Dissertation: Disrupting Whiteness: Race, Queerness and Pedagogy

M.A., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1990

B.A., Women’s Studies and Mathematics, Oberlin College, May 1989

Minor, Feminist Studies and Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

"Don’t Feel White Privilege? It Might Be Political." Radical Pedagogy. Volume 13 Number 1; Winter 2016.

Bannister, S., M. Armato, L. Fuller, and N. Matthews. "Gendered Violence and Interruptions to Education." International Journal of Education and Social Science. Vol. 2 No. 2; February 2015.

Armato, Michael, Fuller, Laurie, Matthews, Nancy, and Meiners, Erica. “Pedagogical Engagements: Feminist Resistance to the Militarization of Education.” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Volume 35, Issue 2, 2013

“Teaching Peace in the Feminist Classroom: Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing.” Radical Teacher. Number 75, Spring 2006 pp. 28-35

Fuller, L. and Meiners, E. “Reflections: Empowering women, technology and (feminist) institutional change.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies special gender and information technology issue. Vol. 26, No. 1. Spring 2005

Fuller, L. and Meiners, E. “Empowering women? Engaging a technology grant for social change.” Journal of International Women's Studies special issue on women in science. Vol. 5, No. 4. May 2004

“If Only They Knew: Problematics of White Dyke Disclosures in Lecture,” JCT The Journal of Curriculum Theorizing: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Curriculum Studies. A juried journal. 12:3, (Winter 1996)

Additional Information

GRANTS

“Effects of violence on women’s retention at NEIU and assessment of related campus responses.” 91Porn Research Community Grant, $5,000. An ongoing research into the extent and impact of violence in the lives of NEIU students and university services’ effectiveness, begun fall 2007.

“Empowering Women For Life-Long Success Through Computer Expertise.” A four-year $160,000 Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE), US Department of Education, grant to improve technology skills for women students at NEIU, begun Fall 1999

“Evaluating On-line Communication and Web-based Course Content for Increased Student Learning.” A one-year $3000 Faculty Research and Scholarly Project Grant, NEIU, begun Fall 1999

Laurie Fuller

LS-Fuller@neiu.edu

Office Hours

Varies by each semester

LWH 2086
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Laurie Fuller
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4552

Fax

(773) 442-4900

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Main Campus

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies (LGBTQ), Minor

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies (LGBTQ), Minor

The LGBTQ Studies minor at NEIU offers an interdisciplinary approach to studying the lives, histories and cultures of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer communities and allies. Courses in history, culture, health, politics, justice, education, literature and the arts reflect a commitment to understanding and representing the contributions of LGBTQ individuals and communities. The program focuses on justice, knowledge and action that honor multiplicity and diversity in gender and sexual expression including how race, class, ability and other identity markers shape LGBTQ lives.

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Department

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Affiliation

College of Arts and Sciences

Type

Undergraduate Minor

Location

Main Campus

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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Minor

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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Minor

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is an interdisciplinary field that explores the experiences of women and the many ways that gender works throughout everyone’s lives. Gender shapes our identities, how we are perceived socially and our opportunities in life.

At 91Porn, we approach our studies through intersections of feminist, anti-racist, multicultural, global and ecological perspectives. We examine how power is distributed and used along the intersections of race, class, gender, geography, age, abilities and sexualities.

We work together to create an environment of learning and passionate commitment to social justice. Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is not just about learning facts and theories, but also about praxis—using our knowledge to become practitioners, researchers, learners, leaders and activists. We work to develop and implement meaningful social change within the University and beyond.

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Department

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Affiliation

College of Arts and Sciences

Type

Undergraduate Minor

Location

Main Campus

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Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Minor

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Women’s and Gender Studies explores the experiences of women and the many ways that gender works throughout everyone’s lives.

Olivia Perlow

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Olivia Perlow

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Olivia

Perlow

Professor

Courses Taught

SOC 105: Social Inequalities and Social Change

SOC 316: Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC 318: Sociology Through Film

SOC 344: African American Women: Feminism, Race & Resistance

SOC 350: Sociology of Black Communities

AFAM 200: Intro to African and African American Studies

AFAM 302: Africans in the Diaspora

Research Interests

Dr. Olivia Nichole Perlow is a professor of the Department of Sociology, African & African American Studies, Latino/a/x and Latin American Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at 91Porn. Her specializations are social inequalities, critical carceral studies, and liberatory pedagogies. Most of her work comes out of a critical race (black) feminist framework in which she examines intersecting oppressions based on race, class, gender, sexuality, and so forth. She is the published author of multiple articles, book chapters, and co-editor of the anthology Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy. She is a proud triple alumna of Howard University, where her political trajectory was fermented, and an activist who continues to challenge the varied and multi-faceted oppressions faced by marginalized/minoritized groups, particularly in the areas of criminal (in)justice and education.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2008, Howard University

M.A., Sociology, 2004, Howard University

B.A., Sociology, 2000, Howard University

Selected Publications

Perlow, Olivia, Durene Wheeler, Sharon Bethea & Barbara Scott (Eds.). (2018). Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation & Healing Within and Beyond the Academy. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

Perlow, Olivia. (2018). “Anger as Resistance to White Supremacy within and beyond the Classroom” in Perlow, Olivia, Durene Wheeler, Sharon Bethea & Barbara Scott (Eds.) Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation & Healing Within and Beyond the Academy. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan.

Spencer, Zoe and Perlow, Olivia. (2018). “Reconceptualizing Historic and Contemporary Violence against African Americans as Savage White American Terror (SWAT).” Journal of African American Studies, Summer 2018. DOI 10.1007/s12111-018-9399-3

Spencer, Zoe and Perlow, Olivia. (2018). “Sassy Mouths, Unfettered Spirits, and the Neo- Lynching of Korryn Gaines and Sandra Bland: Conceptualizing Post Traumatic Slave Master Syndrome and the Familiar ‘Policing’ of Black Women’s Resistance in Twenty-First-Century America.” Meridians: 17(1). DOI: 10.1215/15366936-6955175

Selected Performances

Grants and Awards

The Dr. Melvin Cleveland Terrell Award in Research and Literature, NEIU, 2020
Faculty Excellence Award in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, NEIU, 2019
Sabbatical Award, NEIU, 2015-2016
Summer Research Award, NEIU, 2015
Women of Color Leadership Project Award, National Women's Studies Association, 2014
Black Heritage Committee Faculty Excellence Award, 2014
Northeastern Programming Board’s Women’s Excellence Award, 2014 NEIU’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
Student Choice Award, NEIU, 2013
Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Award, Northwestern University, 2007
Summer Research Fellowship Award, Texas State University, 2006

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Association of Black Sociologists

National Women's Studies Association and National Council of Black Studies

o-perlow@neiu.edu

Office Hours

Office Hours
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and by appointment

Room LWH 2089
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4773

Sociology

African and African American Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Latina/o and Latin American Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

Main Campus

WGS Faculty and Staff

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WGS Faculty and Staff

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Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Kristen

Over

Associate Professor, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Coordinator

English

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5833

k-over@neiu.edu

Expertise

Comparative literature, medieval British literature, medieval Welsh literature, French and Welsh romance, Arthurian literature, poststructural theory, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, gender and sexuality studies

Courses Taught

ENGL 210 WIP:Methods for English Majors

ENGL 221 English Literature: Beginnings to c. 1750

ENGL 307 Medieval Studies: Arthurian Tradition

ENGL 308 English Literature from Beowulf to Malory

ENGL 314 Chaucer and His Age

ENGL 345 Practical Criticism

ENGL 371 Studies in Women's Literature

ENGL 410 Literary Method and Practice

ENGL 430 Studies in Literary Criticism

ENGL 495 Rethinking Race and Gender

WGS 201 WIP: Feminist Ideas

ZHON 192 Honors Introduction to the Humanities

Research Interests

Race and gender, medieval sexualities, epistemologies of ignorance, indigenous American women’s writing, philosophies of identity and freedom, politics of nation and identity

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

Selected Publications

Book Article. “Warrior Ideal or Sinful Beast? Ambiguous Sovereignty in Culhwch ac Olwen.” In The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair, editors. Arlen House Press 2013. Examines the sovereign power of God and Arthur in an early Welsh Arthurian tale.

Book Article. “Hybridity Reconsidered: Rewriting the Literary Welshman in Peredur vab Efrawc.” In Other Nations: The Hybridization of Medieval Insular Mythology and Identity. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and Wolfram R. Keller, editors. Winter, Heidelberg, 2011. Examines a Welsh version of the Perceval tale in the context of distinct insular identities.

Book. Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance. Routledge Press, 2005. A study of vernacular literature, medieval colonialisms, and state formation focusing on the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and three thirteenth-century Welsh tales.

Book Article. “Transcultural Change: Romance to Rhamant.” In Medieval Celtic Literature and Society. Helen Fulton, editor. Four Courts Press, Dublin 2005. Assessment of the genres of romance/rhamant from a postcolonial perspective.

k-over@neiu.edu

Room LWH 2006
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5833

Office Hours

Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: Noon-1:00 p.m./4:00-5:00 p.m. (in person)
Monday and Wednesday: 2:00-4:00 p.m. via ZOOM

Also by appointment. Email k-over@neiu.edu the day before to schedule.

Main Campus

Laurie

Fuller

Professor and Program Advisor

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4552

LS-Fuller@neiu.edu

Expertise

Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, LGBTQ Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, Critical Race Studies

Courses Taught

WGS 101: Women's Perspective and Values

WGS 201: Feminist Ideas

WGS 210: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies

WGS 302: Feminist Theory

WGS 311: Lesbian and Queer Cultures

WGS 350: Seminar in Women's and Gender Studies

SOC 306: American Women: The Changing Image

Research Interests

Social Construction of Whiteness, Feminist Pedagogy, Queer Theory and Practice, Anti Violence Work, Community Accountability and Transformative Justice

Education

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1996

Dissertation: Disrupting Whiteness: Race, Queerness and Pedagogy

M.A., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, December 1990

B.A., Women’s Studies and Mathematics, Oberlin College, May 1989

Minor, Feminist Studies and Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

"Don’t Feel White Privilege? It Might Be Political." Radical Pedagogy. Volume 13 Number 1; Winter 2016.

Bannister, S., M. Armato, L. Fuller, and N. Matthews. "Gendered Violence and Interruptions to Education." International Journal of Education and Social Science. Vol. 2 No. 2; February 2015.

“Teaching Peace in the Feminist Classroom: Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing.” Radical Teacher. Number 75, Spring 2006 pp. 28-35

Fuller, L. and Meiners, E. “Empowering women? Engaging a technology grant for social change.” Journal of International Women's Studies special issue on women in science. Vol. 5, No. 4. May 2004

Additional Information

GRANTS

“Evaluating On-line Communication and Web-based Course Content for Increased Student Learning.” A one-year $3000 Faculty Research and Scholarly Project Grant, NEIU, begun Fall 1999

Laurie Fuller

LS-Fuller@neiu.edu

LWH 2086
5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Laurie Fuller
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4552

Fax

(773) 442-4900

Office Hours

Varies by each semester

Main Campus

Timothy

Barnett

Professor

English

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-6030

t-barnett1@neiu.edu

Expertise

Composition history and pedagogy, critical literacy, LGBTQ literature and theory

Courses Taught

ENGL 101 Writing I

ENGL 102 Writing II

ENGL 200 Writing in Context

ENGL 202 World of Drama

ENGL 203 World of Fiction

ENGL 210 WIP: Methods for English Majors

ENGL 335 Written Communication for Business

ENGL 375 The Essentials of Tutoring Writing

ENGL 376 Advanced Composition

ENGL 377 Argumentative Prose

ENGL 433 Seminar in Composition Theory

ENGL 434 Seminar in Basic Writing

WGS 210 Into to LGBTQ Studies

WGS 360 Queer Theory

Research Interests

History of Composition, Composition Pedagogy, Critical Literacy, LGBTQ Literature, Feminist and Queer Studies

Education

Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986

Selected Publications

“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class.” Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.

“Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy.” College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.

Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2002.

“Reading ‘Whiteness’ in English Studies.” College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.

External Publications Link

“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class”

Background

Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.

t-barnett1@neiu.edu

Room LWH 2016 or Room B 147
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-6030

Office Hours

Spring 2024 Student Hours
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Please email appointment requests and messages at least 24 hours in advance to t-barnett1@neiu.edu.

Main Campus

Brandon

Bisbey

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Spanish

World Languages and Cultures

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4622

b-bisbey@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

SPAN 481 Contemporary Latin American Narrative

SPAN 419 Topics in Contemporary Mexican Literature

SPAN 418 Novels of the Mexican Revolution

SPAN 378 Mexican Literature

SPAN 315 Spanish Culture

SPAN 314 Latin American Culture

SPAN 310 Advanced Spanish Grammar

SPAN 253 Composition II

SPAN 102 Beginning Spanish II

PORT 101 Portuguese I

WLC 200L Introduction to Latin American Cultures

LLAS 101 Introduction to Latino and Latin American Studies

Research Interests

Contemporary Mexican Narrative, Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Masculinities Studies

Education

Ph.D. Spanish. Tulane University. 2011. Dissertation: Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative.
M.A. Spanish. Tulane University. 2007.
B.A. Spanish and Latin American Studies. University of Texas at Austin. 2004.

Selected Publications

Scholarly articles:

"Humor y matrimonio gay en Utopía gay de José Rafael Calva y La historia de siempre de Luis Zapata." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. Forthcoming.

“Hacia una literatura de disidencia sexual en México con dos Bildungsromane bisexuales: Púrpura de Ana García Bergua y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna.” Revista Valenciana. 5.10 (julio-diciembre 2012). Print.

"Cantares de los vientos primerizos: La ironía de una novela zapoteca en español." Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea 40.16 (enero-marzo 2009): 39-48. Print.

Translations:

Gómez, Antonio. “Argentine Multiculturalism and the Ethnographic Shift in Documentary Cinema: Martín Rejtman's Copacabana.” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 19:3-4 (2013): 340-355. Print.

Reviews and journalism:

"The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar." (Book Review) El Béisman, elbeisman.com, 1 Apr. 2014. Web. 2 Apr. 2014.

"Come Out Into the Sun." (Review of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant by José Ángel N.) El Béisman. elbeisman.com, 2 Feb. 2014. Web. 4 Feb. 2014.

"The Real Cost of the War on Drugs." (Review of Dying for the Truth by the editors of Blog del Narco) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 4 Nov. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

"¿Existe una 'narcoliteratura'? Entrevista con el Dr. Felipe Oliver Fuentes Kraffczyk." Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 15 Oct. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

"On the Border." (Review of The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 28 Sept. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

"De zorros y erizos: testimonio de varias vidas." (Book Review) Pilsen Portal. Pilsen Planning Committee and the Resurrection Project, 4 Jul. 2013. Web. 12 Dec. 2013.

"La transmigración de los cuerpos, de Yuri Herrera." (Book Review) contratiempo 104 (mayo 2013): 5. Print.

"Una herramienta por la paz." (Review of To Die in Mexico by John Gibler) contratiempo 98 (octubre 2012): 8. Print.

Develando el erotismo cotidiano: Bisexual chic en la narrativa mexicana contemporánea." contratiempo 96 (julio-agosto 2012): 22-23. Print.

"Un diálogo en NEIU: Migración y literatura." contratiempo 91 (febrero 2012): 8. Print.

Selected Performances

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:

“Humor y Homosexualidad”. Seminar taught at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Guanajuato, Mexico. November 25-28, 2013.

"Towards a Literature of Sexual Dissidence in Mexico with two Bisexual Bildungsromane: Púrpura by Ana García Bergua and Fruta verde by Enrique Serna.” Migration, Identity and Place: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Celebration of NEIU’s Latino and Latin American Studies Program and Its New Major. 91Porn. Chicago. September 27, 2012.

PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES:

“Humor y género en la reescritura del México imaginario: Brenda Berenice de Luis Montaño y

‘La jota de Bergerac’ de Carlos Velázquez.” 129th Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. January 9-12, 2014.

“Humor, homofobia y la integración gay a la modenridad mexicana.” XVIII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 7-9, 2013.

"Púrpura de Ana García Bergua y Fruta verde de Enrique Serna: Dos bildungsroman bisexuales." XVII Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 1-3, 2012.

"Humor and gay marriage in two novels by José Rafael Calva and Luis Zapata." XVI Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. University of Texas-El Paso. March 3-5, 2011.

"Campeones: el boxeador como símbolo de la nación en la literatura mexicana."Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms: Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans. April 1-4, 2010.

"Narradores machadianos: a ironia da escravidão." Views and Visions: Perspectives in Iberian and Latin American Literatures. Tulane University. New Orleans. October 9-10, 2009.

"Incongruencias (in)apropiadas: el humor negro y lo grotesco en los cuentos de Claudia Hernández." XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Rio de Janeiro. June 11-14, 2009.

"Cantares de los vientos primerizos: La ironía de una novela zapoteca en español." XV Annual Mexican Conference at the Univeristy of Califoria-Irvine. April 30-May 2, 2009.

"De fronteras, y de lo grotesco de la vida posmoderna." XVI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. 16-18 de abril, 2008.

Background

Assistant Professor of Spanish. 91Porn 2011-
Teaching Assistant. Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University 2006-2011
Preceptor. Spanish. Tulane University 2010

b-bisbey@neiu.edu

LWH 2042
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4622

Office Hours

On sabbatical Fall 2018.

Main Campus

Curriculum Vitae

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Aneta

Galary

Instructor

Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4802

a-galary@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology

SOC 105: Social Inequalities and Social Change

SOC 214: Sociology of Intimacy, Marriages and Families

SOC 221: Sociology of Work

SOC 306: Women, Gender and the "F Word"

SOC 320: Sociological Analysis

SOC 338: Environmental Sociology

SOC 360: Sociology of Occupations and Professions

SOC 365: Sociology of Globalization

Research Interests

My work focuses on Environmental Sociology, Economic Sociology, and Social Inequalities. I am especially interested in how systems of oppression and privilege are created and maintained by social institutions (work and economy, the state and public policy, media, etc.), and culture. I am also interested in the impact of oppression and exclusion on members of society, and individual and collective actions to generate positive social change.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2007, Loyola University, Chicago

M.A., Sociology, 2003, Loyola University, Chicago

B.A., Public Relations, 1995, Columbia College, Chicago

Selected Publications

Block, Richard, Aneta Galary, and Darryl Brice. 2007. "The Journey to Crime: Victims and Offenders Converge in Violent Index Offences in Chicago." Security Journal 20:123-137.

Block, Richard, Darryl Brice, and Aneta Galary. 2003. "Traced Firearms and Criminal Violence in Chicago." Proceedings of the Homicide Research Working Group. Chicago" Loyola University.

Galary, Aneta. 2003. Review of Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in Making of Russian Capitalism" by Vadim Volkov. Contemporary Sociology 32:587-588.

Selected Performances

Grants and Award

Dissertation of the Year, Social Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, 2007

Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007

Excellence in Graduate Student Research, Loyola University Chicago, 2006

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Sociologists for Women in Society

a-galary@neiu.edu

LWH 2092
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4802

Office Hours

TBA

Main Campus

Stacey

Goguen

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Advisor

Philosophy

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5797

s-goguen@neiu.edu

Expertise

Feminist Philosophy, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

Courses Taught

PHIL 102-Introduction to Philosophy

PHIL 213-Ethics

PHIL 250-Ethics in Science and Research

PHIL 311-Writing Intensive Program: Arguing Philosophically

PHIL 332-Contemporary Philosophy

PHIL-353 Feminism and the Philosophy of Science

PHIL 366-Feminist Ethics

PHIL-371 Theory of Knowledge

PHIL 373-Feminist Philosophy

PHIL 374 (prev. PHIL 218)-Philosophy of Sex

PHIL 375-Philosophy of Science

WGS 302-Feminist Theory

WGS 316-Science and the Gendered Body

Research Interests

Epistemic Injustice, Active Ignorance, Misinformation & Scams, Stereotypes, Bias, Women in Philosophy, Objectivity in Science

Education

B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)

Ph.D. Philosophy, Boston University

Selected Publications

Books

Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives. Co-edited with Benjamin Sherman. Rowman & Littlefield. 2019. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786607058/Overcoming-Epistemic-Injustice-Social-and-Psychological-Perspectives

Recent Articles and essays

“Hermeneutical Backlash: Trans Youth Panics as Epistemic Injustice.” Co-Written with B. R. George (Carnegie Mellon). Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. 7(4): 1-34. 2021. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/13518

“Is Asking What Women Want the Right Question? Underrepresentation in philosophy and differences in interests.” Dialogue. 57(2): 409-441. 2018. https://philpapers.org/rec/GOGIAW

“Stereotype Threat, Epistemic Injustice, and Rationality” in Implicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume I. Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul, eds. Oxford University Press. 2016. https://academic.oup.com/book/3272?login=false

s-goguen@neiu.edu

Room LWH 3086
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5797

Office Hours

Spring 2023
Monday: 2:15-4 p.m.
Wednesday: 10-11:30 a.m.

Main Campus

Jeanette

Hernández

Administrative Aide

World Languages and Cultures

(773) 442-4740

J-Hernandez-Kalin@neiu.edu

Expertise

Office Procedures, Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Women's Studies, Latin American Cultures, Spanish and French languages

Education

M.A. Political Science, 91Porn, Chicago, Illinois, 2010

B.A. Philosophy, 91Porn, Chicago, Illinois, 2001

B.A. Sociology, 91Porn, Chicago, Illinois, 1997

Background

Office Staff, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Northeastern Illnois University, 1992 to present.

J-Hernandez-Kalin@neiu.edu

Lech Walesa Hall 2040
5500 N Saint Louis Avenue
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4740

Office Hours

10:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday

Nikolas

Hoel

Instructor

History

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5634

n-hoel@neiu.edu

Expertise

Medieval and Byzantine History

Courses Taught

Hist 111A: World History, The West, to 1500

Hist 300A: Ancient Greece

Hist 300B: Ancient Rome

Hist 301: Medieval Europe

Hist 311A: History of England to 1688

Hist 315: Women in Medieval Society

Hist 392: Problems in History: Survey of Byzantine History

Hist 392: Problems in History: Saints and Sinners in the Medieval World

Hist 392: Problems in History: The Crusades

Hist 392: Problems in History: Religion and Reform in the Age of Constantine

Hist 410: Readings in Medieval History

Research Interests

Religious, Social, and Cultural History; Intellectual History; Hagiography; Medieval, Byzantine, and World History; Rome and Late Antiquity

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Medieval and Byzantine History, Ph.D., 2013

Professional Affiliations & Membership

American Historical Association

n-hoel@neiu.edu

Room LWH 4081
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5634

Office Hours

By appointment

Main Campus

Curriculum Vitae

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Lisa

Hollis-Sawyer

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Psychology; Gerontology Faculty, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Affiliate Faculty, Instructor in the Master of Public Health Degree Program.

Psychology

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5846

l-hollissawyer@neiu.edu

Expertise

Gerontology, Psychology, Women and Gender Studies, Tests and Measurements, Public Health, Program Assessment.

Courses Taught

PSYC 401 Gerontology:An Overview

PSYC 402 Developmental Processes in Later Life

PSYC 406 Aging and the Family

PSYC 408 Research methods in Gerontology

PSYC 420 Seminar in Proposal Writing

PSYC 434 Aging Services Network

PSYC 455 Seminar in Aging

PSYC 307 Psych Tests and Measurements

PSYC 308 Psych Tests and Measurements Lab

PSYC 312 Psych Development of Women

PSYC 324 Geropsychology

PSYC 360 Social Psychology

PSYC 365 Industrial Psychology

PSYC 397 Service Learning

PH 470 Research Methods

Research Interests

Dr. Hollis-Sawyer’s research interests range from lifespan human development and intergenerational eldercare to aging women’s mental and physical health. She has authored/co-authored eight textbooks and authored/co-authored 59 scholarly publications. Many of these publications reflect a focus on aging and health outcomes. She is the co-Chair of the APA. Division 35 Committee on Women and Aging. In 2017, she received the APA Division 35’s Florence L. Denmark award for her research on women and aging. She has co-written a 2015 book on women’s positive health entitled “Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective,” and published an edited 2020 APA book entitled “Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change.” She is a co-author of a 2020 book entitled "Adult Development and Aging."

Education

The University of Akron, Akron OH

Selected Publications

Hollis-Sawyer, L. (2021). Differential treatment of older workers due to COVID-19 accommodations: Potential issues of ageism and age discrimination. Journal of Elder Policy, 1(3), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.18278/jep.1.3.6

Patrick, J., Hayslip, B., & Hollis-Sawyer, L. (2020). Adult development and aging. Sage.

Sawyer, T., Nebl, P., & Hollis-Sawyer, L. (2020). Black belt statistics: A competency-based approach (plus SPSS and R). Cognella.

Cole, E., & Hollis-Sawyer, L. (Editors) (2020). Older women who work: Resilience, choice, and change. APA Books.

Hollis-Sawyer, L. (2020). Use it or lose it: Older women and civic engagement. In Cole, E., & Hollis-Sawyer, L. (Editors), Older women who work: Resilience, choice, and change. APA Books.

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Lifetime member of Sigma Phi Omega Honor Society in Gerontology

Member of the Gerontological Society of America

Member of the APA Division 2, Teaching of Psychology

Member of the APA Division 20, Adulthood and Aging

Member of the National Association for Professional Women

Honors

Association for Gerontology in Higher Education Program of Merit Award

Additional Information

Selected Professional Awards

Recipient of the 2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change (APA Books, 2020).

Recipient of the 2017 British Medical Association (BMA) “Highly Commended” book recognition designation for the Hollis-Sawyer, L. A., & Dykema-Engblade, A. (2016). Women and positive aging: An international perspective. Academic Press book. Awarded at the BMA Award Ceremony in London, UK on September 11, 2017.

Recipient of the 2017 American Psychological Association Division 35 Denmark Women and Aging Award. Awarded at the APA Conf. in Washington, DC on August 5, 2017.

Recipient of the 2014 American Psychological Association (APA) Division 20 Mentorship Award in Adult Development and Aging. Awarded at the APA Conference in Washington, DC on August 9, 2014.

Recipient of the 2014-2018 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) Program of Merit Award (as Gerontology Coordinator). Awarded at the AGHE Conference in Denver, CO on March 1, 2014.

l-hollissawyer@neiu.edu

Room BBH 307E
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5846

Office Hours

By appointment.

El Centro

Main Campus

Brooke

Johnson

Coordinator, Professor

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4771

b-johnson16@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

SOC 331: Military Sociology

SOC 332: Sociology of Education

SOC 335: Sociological Theory

SOC 339: Introduction to Social Statistics

SOC 340: Sociology of Sexualities

SOC 351: Senior Seminar in Sociology

Research Interests

Informed by my broad interest in social inequality, my areas of specialization include: education, militarization, gender and sexualities.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2009, University of California, Riverside

M.A., Sociology, 2005, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Sociology, 2000, Boise State University

Selected Publications

Johnson, Brooke. 2019. "The Erotic as Resistance: Queer Resistance at a Militarized Charter School." Critical Military Studies, Special Issue on School Militarism. DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2019.1608702

Johnson, Brooke. 2018. "Educating for War: Militarization and the Manufacturing of Consent through Public Schooling," Pp. 65-86 in The Palgrave International Handbook of School Discipline: Surveillance, Punishment and Social Control, edited by J. Deakin, E. Taylor A. Kupchik. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Johnson, Brooke. 2014. Culture and Structure at a Military Charter School: From School Ground to Battle Ground. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Johnson, Brooke. 2010. "A Few Good Boys: Masculinity at a Military-style Charter School." Men and Masculinities 12(5):575-596.

Aguirre, Jr., Adalberto and Brooke Johnson. 2005. "Militarizing Youth in Public Education: Observations from a Military-Style Charter School." Social Justice 32(3):148-162.

Professional Affiliations & Membership

National Women's Studies Association

American Sociological Association

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Midwest Sociological Society

b-johnson16@neiu.edu

LWH 2085
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4771

Office Hours

TBA

Main Campus

Nancy

Matthews

Professor Emerita

Justice Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

n-matthews@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

N/A

Research Interests

N/A

Education

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Americal Sociological Association

Law and Society Association

Society for the Study of Social Problems

National Women’s Studies Association

Peace and Justice Studies Association

n-matthews@neiu.edu

Office Hours

None

Main Campus

Erica

Meiners

Professor

Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies

College of Education

(773) 442-5515

e-meiners@neiu.edu

Expertise

Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty Affiliate Latino and Latin American Studies, and Faculty Affiliate Justice Studies

Courses Taught

EDFN 305: Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education

EDFN 416: Cultural Pluralism and the Schools

EDFN 405: Development of Educational Thought

ELAD 429: Research Methods

JUST 328: Social Justice and GLBTQ Issues

SOC 104: School and Society

SOC 320: Sociology of Education

WGS 301: Feminist Engagements in Education

WGS 202: Feminist Activism

Research Interests

Educational Policy: prison/school nexus, lesbian/gay/transgendered/queer lives and schools, poverty, immigration/undocumented students, alternative media in education, critical childhood studies. Justice Movements and Anti-Prison Organizing: anti-racist feminisms, criminalization of undocumented communities, prison abolition and decarceration movements, sex offender registries and community notification laws, sexual and gender violence, militarism, restorative and transformative justice. Methodologies: participatory action research, community-based organizing and research, qualitative research, feminist research methodologies.

Education

1998
Ph.D. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada

1992
B.A. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

Selected Publications

Lawston, J. and Meiners, E. (in press 2014). “Ending Our Expertise: Feminisms, Abolition and Scholarship.” Feminist Formations 26(2).

Meiners, E. (in press, 2014). “Trouble with the Child in the Carceral State.” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime Conflict and World Order 39 (2)

Boyd, Michelle and Meiners, Erica. (2013). “Reconstructions.” Lux.

Quinn, Therese and Meiners, Erica, (2013). “From Anti-Bullying Laws and Marriage to Queer Worlds and Just Futures.” QED: Journal of LGBTQ World Making (inaugural issue).

Armato, M., Matthews, N., and Meiners, E. (2013). “Pedagogical Engagements: Engaging Campus Anti-Militarism.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies.

Kumashiro, K. and Meiners, E. (2012). “Flip the Script.” Bank Street College: Occasional Paper Series #27.

Meiners, E. Michaud, L., Pavan, J., and Simpson, B. (2011). “Worst of the worst”? Queer investments in challenging sex offender registries in Canada and in the U.S. Upping the Anti (13), 91–106.

Meiners, E. (2011). “Ending the school to prison pipeline/Building abolition futures.”Urban Review 43 (4), 547–465.

Galaviz, B., Palafox, J., Meiners, E. and Quinn, T. (2011). “The Militarization and the Privatization of Public Schools.” The Berkeley Review of Education 2 (1), 27-45.

Meiners, E. & Quinn, T. (2011). Militarism and education normal? Monthly Review 63(3), 77-86.

Diaz, D., Gómez, C., Luna-Duarte, C., Meiners, E. (2011). “Purged: Undocumented Students, Financial Aid Policies, and Access to Higher Education.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (10), 107-119.

Jackson, J. and Meiners, E. (2011). “Fear and Loathing: The Challenge of Feelings in Anti-Prison Organizing.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 39 (1 & 2): 268 – 288.

Meiners, E. (2011). “A queer time and place: Educational analysis and intervention in the prison nation.” Powerplay: A Journal of Educational Justice 3 (1): 71 – 86.

Horn, S., Meiners, E., North, C., & Quinn, T. (2010). “Visibility matters: Policy work as activism in teacher education.” Issues in Teacher Education 19 (2): 65-80.

Jackson, J. and Meiners, E. (2010). “Feeling like a failure: Teaching/learning abolition through the good the bad and the innocent.” Radical Teacher (special issue on teaching the PIC) 88: 20-30.

Diaz, D., Gómez, C., Luna-Duarte, C., Meiners, E., Valentin, L. (April 2010). “Organizing tensions: From the prison to the military industrial complex.” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime Conflict and World Order. Special Issue Policing, Detention, Deportation and Resistance 36 (2) 73-84.

Diaz, D., Gómez, C., Luna-Duarte, C., Meiners, E., Valentin, L. (May/June 2010). Dreams Deferred. Academe. https://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2010/MJ/feat/diaz.htm

Meiners, E. and Quinn, T. (2010). “Doing and Feeling Research in Public: Queer Organizing for Public Education and Justice.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 23 (2) 147-164.

Meiners, E. (2009). “Resisting Civil Death: Organizing for Access to Education In Our Prison Nation.” Depaul Law School Justice Journal 3 (2) 79-95.

Meiners, E. (2009). “Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with Sex Offender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation.” Meridians: Feminisms, race, transnationalism 9(2) 31-62.

Book Chapters

Meiners, Erica and Ross, Sarah. (2014). Margaret Burroughs: Radical Engagements at Stateville Prison.

In Rebecca Zorach, (Ed.), Art Against the Law. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Diaz, D., Gómez, C., Luna-Duarte, C. and Meiners, E. (2013). “Undocumented, Resilient and Organized: Students Build Immigration Justice.” In E. Tuck and K.Wayne Yang, (Eds.), Youth Resistance Revisited, New York NY: Routledge.

Meiners, E., and Shaylor, C. (2013). “Resisting Gendered Carceral Landscapes.” In B. Carlton (Ed.), Women Exiting Prison. New York, New York: Routledge.

Meiners, E. (2013). “Schooling the Carceral State.” In David Scott, (Ed.) Why Prisons? Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hereth, J., Kaba, M., Meiners, E., Wallace, L. (2012). “Restorative Justice Is Not Enough: School Based Interventions in the Carceral State.” In S. Bahena, P. Kuttner, and M. Ng (Eds.), Disrupting the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review.

Meiners, E. (2011). “Awful Acts and the trouble with normal.” In E. Stanley and N. Smith (Eds). Captive Genders: Trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex. Boston. South End Press.

Diaz, D., Gómez, C., Luna-Duarte, C., Meiners, E. (in press). “Undocumented Latino Youth: Strategies for Accessing Higher Education.” In P. Noguera (Ed.) Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males:

Contemporary Perspectives on Cultural and Structural Factors. New York: Routledge. Meiners, E. (2011). “Juvenile Justice.” N. Lesko and S. Talburt (Eds.) Keywords: Youth Cultures. New York: Routledge.

Meiners, E. (2010). “Building an Abolition Democracy; or, The Fight Against Public Fears, Private Benefits, and Prison Expansion.” In S. J. Hartnett (Ed.), Education or Incarceration? Reclaiming Hope and Justice in a Punishing Democracy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Quinn, T., and Meiners, E. (2010) Seeing Red: Teacher Educators, Social Justice and other "Lightning Rods." (2010). A. Ball & C. Tyson (Eds), Studying Diversity in Teacher Education. AERA (American Educational Research Association) commissioned volume, AERA book Publication.

And other publications in more popular presses including Catalyst, AREA Chicago, No-More-Potlucks, Windy City Times, and MS magazine blog.

Background

Erica R. Meiners teaches, writes and organizes in Chicago. She has written about her ongoing labor and learning in anti-militarization campaigns, educational justice struggles, prison abolition and reform movements, and queer and immigrant rights organizing, in Flaunt It! Queers organizing for public education and justice (2009 (with Therese Quinn), Right to be hostile: schools, prisons and the making of public enemies (2007) and articles in Radical Teacher, Meridians, AREA Chicago and Social Justice. Her work in the areas of prison/school nexus; gender, access and technology; community-based research methodologies; and urban education, has been supported by the US Department of Education, the Illinois Humanities Council and the Princeton Woodrow Wilson Public Scholarship Foundation, among others.

e-meiners@neiu.edu

Room LWH 4008
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5515

Office Hours

Monday and Wednesday: 12:00-2:00 p.m.
Monday: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
and by appointment.

Main Campus

https://homepages.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/Meiners/About_Me.html

Christopher

Merchant

Associate Professor

Psychology

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5884

c-merchant@neiu.edu

Expertise

Suicidal ideation and depression among adolescents and young adults; identity development in young adulthood

Courses Taught

Abnormal Psychology (Psych 340)

Psychology of Personality (Psych 330)

Senior Seminar

General Psychology

Psychosocial Advocacy for Developmental Maladjustment

The Performative Self (in Science Technology Engineering Arts & Math Curriculum

Research Interests

Identity development among young adults; Depression; Suicidal ideation; Interpersonal connectedness; Internet use; Social networking

Education

Ph.D. from University of Michigan
B.S. in Psychology from Morehouse College

Selected Publications

Erber, M., Rueckert, L., Dykema-Engblade, A., Merchant, C., & Cuevas, L. (2015). Collaborative and active learning strategies promote critical thinking across psychology curriculum. Presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association-Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Chicago, IL.

Merchant, C., Erber, M., Rueckert, L., Adams, S., & Polyashuk, Y. (2014). Cyber peer-led team learning in a statistics and research methods class. Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Teaching of Psychology, Chicago, Illinois, May, 2014.

Ghaziuddin, N, Merchant, C.R., Dopp, R., & King, C.A (2014). A naturalistic study of suicidal adolescents treated with an SSRI: Suicidal ideation and behavior during 3-month post-hospitalization period. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 11, 13-19.

King, C.A., Kerr, D.C., Passrelli, M.N., Ewell-Foster, C., & Merchant, C.R. (2010). One-year follow up of suicidal adolescents: Parent history of mental health problems and time to post-hospitalization attempt, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, DOI 10.1007/s10964-009-9480-2.

Merchant, C.R., Kramer, A., Joe, S., Venkataraman, S., & King, C.A. (2009). Predictors of multiple suicide attempts among suicidal Black adolescents, Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39(2), 115-124.

King, C.A., & Merchant, C.R. (2008). Social and interpersonal factors relating to adolescent suicidality: A review of the literature, Archives of Suicide Research, 12(3), 181-196.

c-merchant@neiu.edu

Room BBH 307 D
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5884

Office Hours

By appointment.

Main Campus

University Center Lake County

Adam

Messinger

Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Justice Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4798

a-messinger@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

JUST 101 Introduction to Social Justice

JUST 201 Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

JUST 321 Violence Against Women

JUST 345 Practicum in Justice Studies

JUST 348 Research Methods in Justice Studies

JUST 350 Field Work Seminar

JUST 355 LGBTQ Communities & Crime

JUST 393 Independent Study in Social Justice

ZHON 360 Honors Seminar in Research & Creative Processes

ZHON 395 Honors Thesis

Research Interests

My research examines intimate partner violence in the relationships of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ+ IPV), with an emphasis on prevalence, risk factors, dynamics, and help-seeking barriers. In addition to several dozen journal articles and book chapters, I have published two books – Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction (Eds. Messinger & Guadalupe-Diaz, 2020, New York University Press) and LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Research (Messinger, 2017, University of California Press) – which together offer a comprehensive overview of the LGBTQ+ IPV research literature, and which provide evidence-based tips for improving service provision and public policy.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, 2010
M.A., Sociology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California, 2007
B.A., Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Messinger, A. M., & Guadalupe-Diaz, X. (Eds.) (2020). Transgender intimate partner violence: A comprehensive introduction. New York University Press: New York, NY. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2017). LGBTQ intimate partner violence: Lessons for policy, practice, and research. University of California Press: Oakland, CA. [Link]

BOOK CHAPTERS

Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L., & Messinger, A. M. (2020). Working toward transgender inclusion in the movement to address intimate partner violence. In A. M. Messinger & X. L. Guadalupe-Diaz (Eds.), Transgender intimate partner violence: A comprehensive introduction (pp. 362-377). New York University Press. [Link]

Kurdyla, V., Messinger, A. M., & Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L. (2022). Health covariates of intimate partner violence in a national transgender sample. In C. L. Buist & L. Kahle (Eds.), Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Re-Imaging Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond, pp. 129-143. Bristol University Press. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2014). Marking 35 years of same-sex intimate partner violence research: Lessons and future directions. In D. Peterson & V. R. Panfil (Eds.) The handbook of LGBT communities, crime, and justice, 65-85. Springer Science + Business Media Publishing: New York. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2020). Theorizing on the roots of transgender intimate partner violence. In A. M. Messinger & X. L. Guadalupe-Diaz (Eds.), Transgender intimate partner violence: A comprehensive introduction (pp. 110-132). New York University Press. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., & Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L. (2020). The intersection of transphobia, human rights, and transgender intimate partner violence. In A. M. Messinger & X. L. Guadalupe-Diaz (Eds.), Transgender intimate partner violence: A comprehensive introduction (pp. 3-34). New York University Press. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., & Koon-Magnin, S. (2019). Sexual violence in LGBTQ communities. In W. O’Donohue, C. Cummings, & P. A. Schewe (Eds.) Handbook of sexual assault prevention, pp. 661-674. Springer: New York. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., & Kurdyla, V. (Accepted). Intimate partner violence against sexual and gender minority men: Dynamics, theory, and inclusive interventions. In S. S. Chuang, A. Lysova, B. Russell, C. Huang, & B. A. Hine (Eds.) Violence Against Men and Families: Theories, Perspectives, and Application. Springer: New York.

Messinger, A. M., & Roark, J. (2019). Transgender intimate partner violence and aging. In M. Houlberg (Ed.) Transgender health and aging: Culturally competent care for transgender aging patients. Springer: New York. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., & Roark, J. (2019). LGBTQ partner violence. In W. S. DeKeseredy, C. Rennison, & A. Hall-Sanchez (Eds.) The Routledge international handbook of violence studies, pp. 277-285. Routledge: London. [Link]

JOURNAL ARTICLES

DeKeseredy, W. S., Nolan, J., Hall-Sanchez, A., & Messinger, A. M. (2019). Intimate Partner Violence Victimization among Heterosexual, Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual College Students: The Role of Pro-Abuse Peer Support. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 28(9), 1057-1068. [Link]

Dyar, C., Messinger, A. M., Newcomb, M. E., Byck, G. R., Dunlap, P., & Whitton, S. W. (2021). Development and initial validation of three culturally-sensitive measures of intimate partner violence for sexual and gender minority populations. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(15-16), NP8824–NP8851. [Link]

Fry, D. A., Messinger, A. M., Rickert, V. I., O'Connor, M. K., Palmetto, N., Lessel, H., & Davidson, L. L. (2014). Adolescent relationship violence: Help-seeking and help-giving behaviors among peers. Journal of Urban Health, 91(2), 320-334. [Link]

Kurdyla, V., Messinger, A. M., & Ramirez, M. (2021). Transgender intimate partner violence and help-seeking patterns. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(19-20), NP11046–NP11069. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2018). Bidirectional same-gender and sexual minority intimate partner violence. Violence and Gender, 5(4), 241-249. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2011). Invisible victims: Same-sex intimate partner violence in the National Violence Against Women Survey. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(11), 2228-2243. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2012). Teaching content analysis through Harry Potter. Teaching Sociology, 40(4), 360-367. [Link]

Messinger, A. M. (2015). Teaching interactionist gender theory through speed dating. Teaching Sociology, 43(2), 154-162. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Birmingham, R. S., DeKeseredy, W. S. (2021). Perceptions of same-gender and different-gender intimate partner cyber-monitoring. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7-8), NP4315–NP4335. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Davidson, L. L., & Rickert, V.I. (2011). IPV among adolescent reproductive health clinic patients: the role of relationship communication. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(9), 1851-1867. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Dyar, C., Birmingham, R. S., Newcomb, M. E., & Whitton, S. W. (2021). Sexual and gender minority intimate partner violence and childhood violence exposure. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(19-20), NP10322–NP10344. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Fry, D. A., Rickert, V. I., Catallozzi, M., & Davidson, L. L. (2014). Extending Johnson’s intimate partner violence typology: Lessons from an adolescent sample. Violence Against Women, 20(8), 948-971. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L., & Kurdyla, V. (2022). Transgender polyvictimization in the US Transgender Survey. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(19-20), NP18810–NP18836. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Kurdyla, V., & Guadalupe-Diaz, X. L. (2021). Intimate partner violence help-seeking in the US Transgender Survey. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-25. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Nieri, T., Villar, P., & Luengo, M.A. (2012). Acculturation stress and bullying among immigrant youths in Spain. Journal of School Violence, 9(4), 306-322. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Rickert, V. I., Fry, D., Lessel, H., & Davidson, L.L. (2012). Revisiting the role of communication in adolescent intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 9(4), 306-322. [Link]

Messinger, A. M., Sessarego, S. N., Edwards, K. M., & Banyard, V. L. (2021). Bidirectional IPV among adolescent sexual minorities. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(11-12), NP5643–NP5662. [Link]

Risser, H. J., Messinger, A. M., Fry, D. A., Davidson, L. L., & Schewe, P.A. (2013). Do maternal and paternal mental illness and substance abuse predict treatment outcomes for children exposed to violence? Child Care in Practice, 19(3), 221-236. [Link]

Schewe, P. A., Risser, H. J., & Messinger, A.M. (2013). Safe from the start: Evaluating interventions for children exposed to violence. Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma, 22(1), 67-86. [Link]

Whitton, S. W., Newcomb, M. E., Messinger, A. M., Byck, G., & Mustanski, B. (2016). A longitudinal study of IPV victimization among sexual minority youth. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260516646093. [Link]

Zabelski, S., Cascalheira, C., Shaw, T. J., Heilmen, E., Messinger, A. M., Edwards, K., Scheer, J. (In Press). Community-Based Participatory Research with Sexual and Gender Minority Trauma Survivors: Challenges, Solutions, and Recommendations for Future Research. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Messinger, A. M. (2017). The isolation of transgender, undocumented victims of domestic violence. The Huffington Post. [Link]

Additional Information

Book a meeting or appointment with me.

a-messinger@neiu.edu

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Office Hours

Fall 2024
Monday and Wednesday: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in Room LWH 4064
Tuesday: 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. on Zoom and by appointment
Thursday: Noon-5:00 p.m. in Room LWH 4064

Main Campus

Sophia

Mihic

Coordinator; Professor

Political Science

Philosophy

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5652

S-Mihic@neiu.edu

Expertise

Political Theory, Anglo-Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory, “Race,” Class, and the Politics of the Legal Order, The History of Political Thought

Courses Taught

ZHON 193 – Honors Introduction to the Social Sciences

PSCI 216 – American National Government

PSCI/PHIL 390 – Classical Political Theory

PSCI/PHIL 390 Modern Political Theory

PSCI 392 – WIP: Contemporary Political Theory

PHIL 345 – Social and Political Philosophy

PSCI 382/PHIL 382 – Marx Seminar

PHIL 389 – Foucault Seminar

PHIL 387 – Arendt Seminar

PSCI 401 – Classics of Political Science

PSCI 491 – Arendt Seminar

Research Interests

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2000

M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1993

B.A., Political Science, University of Florida 1982

Selected Publications

“Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing,” Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly, Alan Finlayson, ed., Routledge, October 2009

“Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Privacy: An Experiment in Feminist Theorizing,” Feminist Theory, 9(2), August 2008

S-Mihic@neiu.edu

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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5652

Office Hours

TBA

Main Campus

Curriculum Vitae

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Francesca

Morgan

Ph.D.

Professor and NEIU-UPI Secretary

History

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-5609

f-morgan@neiu.edu

Expertise

U.S. History since 1800; Family, Gender, and Sexuality

Courses Taught

Hist 214: United States History to 1877

ZHIS 214: Honors United States History to 1877

Hist 215: United States History, 1877 - Present

Hist 300W: The Historian's Craft

Hist 324: The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras, 1848-1877

Hist 326: The U.S. in Depression & World War, 1933-1945

Hist 338: Women in American History

Hist 339A: Sexuality & Intimacy in America

Hist 393: Capstone Seminar in History

Hist 433: Readings in Nineteenth-Century America (Graduate Colloquium)

Hist 443: Seminar in Nineteenth-Century America (Graduate)

Research Interests

The history of genealogy in the United States since 1800.

Education

Columbia University

History, Ph.D., 1998

Selected Publications

"A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2021." https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664781/a-nation-of-descendants/

"'My Furthest-Back Person': Roots and the History of Black Genealogy.” In Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory, edited by Erica L. Ball and Kellie Carter Jackson, 63-79. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017.

“A Noble Pursuit?: Bourgeois America’s Uses of Lineage.” In The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century, eds. Sven Beckert and Julia Rosenbaum, 135-152. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

“Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England.” New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (June 2010): 250-282.

Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (book). Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

External Publications Link

University of North Carolina Press

Professional Affiliations & Membership

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

Honors

New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

f-morgan@neiu.edu

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Office Hours

By appointment

Main Campus

Curriculum Vitae

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Olivia

Perlow

Professor

Sociology

African and African American Studies

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Latina/o and Latin American Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4773

o-perlow@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

SOC 105: Social Inequalities and Social Change

SOC 316: Race and Ethnic Relations

SOC 318: Sociology Through Film

SOC 344: African American Women: Feminism, Race & Resistance

SOC 350: Sociology of Black Communities

AFAM 200: Intro to African and African American Studies

AFAM 302: Africans in the Diaspora

Research Interests

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2008, Howard University

M.A., Sociology, 2004, Howard University

B.A., Sociology, 2000, Howard University

Selected Publications

Selected Performances

Grants and Awards

The Dr. Melvin Cleveland Terrell Award in Research and Literature, NEIU, 2020
Faculty Excellence Award in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, NEIU, 2019
Sabbatical Award, NEIU, 2015-2016
Summer Research Award, NEIU, 2015
Women of Color Leadership Project Award, National Women's Studies Association, 2014
Black Heritage Committee Faculty Excellence Award, 2014
Northeastern Programming Board’s Women’s Excellence Award, 2014 NEIU’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2014
Student Choice Award, NEIU, 2013
Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Award, Northwestern University, 2007
Summer Research Fellowship Award, Texas State University, 2006

Professional Affiliations & Membership

Association of Black Sociologists

National Women's Studies Association and National Council of Black Studies

o-perlow@neiu.edu

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(773) 442-4773

Office Hours

Office Hours
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and by appointment

Main Campus

Sanaa

Rahman

Instructor of Arabic

World Languages and Cultures

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4732

S-Rahman1@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

ARAB 101 Arabic I

ARAB 102 Arabic II

ARAB 201 Arabic III

WLC 200A Introduction to Arab Cultures

WLC 220A Arab Culture Through Film

Research Interests

Arabic language, Arab culture, literature and film.

Education

M.A., 91Porn

S-Rahman1@neiu.edu

Lech Walesa Hall 2034
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4732

Office Hours

TR 9:30 - 10:30 & 1:30 - 2:30

Main Campus

DeWitt

Scott

Ed.D.

Director, Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs

Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs

(773) 442-5372

dt-scott@neiu.edu

Expertise

Higher Education Administration ● Black Male Leadership ● Youth Empowerment ● Male Ex-offenders ● Mentoring & Leadership ● Prison to School Pipeline ● Strategies for College Success

Education

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, Chicago State University Dissertation
Title: The Career Trajectory of Black Male Presidents of Predominantly White Institutions

● 2017 National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education Outstanding Dissertation Award
● 2017 American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Masters of Liberal Studies, Indiana University at Fort Wayne Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University at Fort Wayne

Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University at Fort Wayne

Background

Student Success Specialist
Moraine Valley Community College 2015-Present
Student Affairs

Student Teaching Coordinator
College of Education
Chicago State University, Chicago, IL 2010-2015

Instructor
Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL 2016-Present

Volunteer Instructor 2016-Present
Cook County Department of Corrections
Black Male Leadership

Instructor
Sister Jean Hughes Adult High School, Chicago, IL 2014-2017
Communications

Additional Information

Research Experience

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Scott, D. (2017). Developing the prison-to-school pipeline: A paradigmatic shift in educational possibilities during an age of mass incarceration. Journal of Correctional Education, 68(3).

Scott, D. (2016). Recruiting and retaining African American male administrators at predominantly White Institutions. Urban Education Research and Policy Annuals, 4(1), 39-46.

Scott, D, & Hines, R. (2014). Rethinking and reframing leadership of historically Black colleges and universities: A distributed perspective. Creative Education, 5(13), 1132-1139.

Books

Fronczek, W., Gray, S., Hannon, T., Hayes, T., Jenkins, J., Mackey, L., Madi-McCarthey, S., Scott, D. (2020). Strategies for College Success: Engage. Persist. Graduate. COL-101. Plymouth, MI: Macmillan Learning Curriculum Solutions.

Book Chapters

Seo, B., Scott, D.., & E. Petchuaer, E. (2017). Becoming a Black institution: Refining teacher education through demographic changes. In E. Petchauer & L. Mawhinney (Eds.), Teacher education across minority-serving institutions: Programs, policies, and social justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Book Reviews

Scott, D. (2017). A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self-Determination, 1950-1975, by Bayyinah S. Jefferies. Latham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014, 173 pp., $85.00 hardback.

Selected Editorial Articles

Scott, D. (2017, August). Black Feminism is Not Your Enemy. Abernathy Magazine.
https://abernathymagazine.com/black-feminism-is-not-your-enemy/

Scott, D. (2017, March). An Improved Society through Better Masculinities. The Good Men Project.
https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/an-improved-society-through…

Scott, D. (2016). What I Learned Teaching Black Men at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Abernathy Magazine. https://abernathymagazine.com/teaching-black-men-at-cook-county-jail-in…

Selected Conference Presentations

Khan, S., Nagle, R., & Scott, D. “Evaluation of a Pilot Program to Restrict Online Withdrawal in Gateway Courses,” presented at the National Symposium on Student Retention, Destin, Florida, November 7, 2017

Scott, D. “March Madness, May Sadness: Enhancing the Educational Success of Black Male Student Athletes,” presented at the 14th Annual Males of Color Empowerment and Retention Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 27, 2016

Humbles, A., & Scott, D, “Advancing Student Achievement Through Peer-Mentoring and Financial Literacy Instruction,” presented at League for Innovation in the Community College’s National Conference, Chicago, IL, March 20, 2016.

Scott, D. “A Phenomenological Examination of Black Male Leadership in Higher Education,” presented at 4 the Center for Scholastic Inquiry 2015 Fall International Academic Research Conference, Charleston, SC, October 28, 2015

Humbles, A., & Scott, D. “From Senior to Freshman: Easing Transitions Through Mentoring and Leadership,” presented at the 22nd National Conference on Students in Transition, Baltimore, MD, October 17, 2015.

Scott, D. “Exploring Black Female Leadership in Higher Education” accepted for presentation at the 2015 Black Doctoral Network Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 9, 2015

Scott, L., & Scott, D. “Understanding Today’s HBCUs through Student Perspectives, Enrollment Trends, and Leadership Models,” accepted for presentation at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2015 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 25, 2015.

Scott, D. “Leading Ladies: An Examination of Black Female Administrators in Higher Education,” accepted for presentation at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History 2015 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, September 24, 2015.

Scott, D. “From Inmate to In-Class: Critical Pedagogy Aimed at Curtailing Recidivism,” to be presented at the 2015 Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, Nashville, TN, May 29, 2015.

Scott, D. “Prison-to-School Pipeline: Critically Examining Formal Education Among Black Ex-Offenders, to be presented at the Northwestern Black Graduate Student Association’s 17th
Annual Graduate Research Conference, Evanston, IL, April 24, 2015.

Scott, D. “Diversifying Academic Leadership: Targeting Black Males as Presidents of Predominantly White Institutions,” accepted for presentation at the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education Conference, Charleston, SC, April 9, 2015.

Scott, D. “Educating the Uneducable: Teaching at an Adult High School for Formerly Incarcerated High School Dropouts,” presented at the Midwest Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Lafayette, IN, March 27, 2015.

Scott, D. “Black Men at the Helm: African American Male Presidents of Predominantly White Colleges and Universities,” presented at the National Council for Black Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 11, 2015.

Scott, D. “Successfully Preparing Low-Income, Underserved, Minority College Students for Careers in Teaching: An Urban University’s Practices,” presented at the Illinois Association for Teacher Educator’s Annual Meeting, Peoria, IL, November 7, 2014.

dt-scott@neiu.edu

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Fax

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Office Hours

Appointments available by request

Brett

Stockdill

Professor

Sociology

College of Arts and Sciences

(773) 442-4772

b-stockdill@neiu.edu

Courses Taught

SOC 100: Introduction to Sociology

LLAS 101: Introduction to Latino/a & Latin American Studies

SOC 211: Sociological Research Methods

SOC 245: WIP: Social Inequalities

SOC 270: Sociology of Latinas

SOC 310: Social Movements

SOC 312: Sociology of Health and Illness

SOC 342: Internship in Sociology

SOC 343: Sociological Practice and Seminar

SOC 351: Senior Seminar in Sociology

SOC 352: Sociology of HIV/AIDS

Research Interests

My research focuses on the Sociology of HIV/AIDS, Social Inequality, and Social Movements. I am especially interested in how multiple inequalities (racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, etc.) intersect and how oppressed groups respond to and resist these inequalities. For my first book, Activism Against AIDS: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, Gender, and Class (Lynne Rienner Press, 2003), I interviewed AIDS activists in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, and I conducted participant observation in ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power)/Chicago—a direct action AIDS activist group. I examine how inequalities have shaped the AIDS crisis and how LGBTQ people, people of color, prisoners and other groups have organized collectively to combat HIV/AIDS. For my second book, Transforming the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in the Academy (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012), Mary Yu Danico and I edited an anthology that highlights how professors identify forms of bias and discrimination in higher education as well as forge antiracist, feminist and queer approaches to teaching and mentoring, research and writing, and social justice work. Some of my other publications are listed below. My research and teaching are informed by my experiences as a queer HIV-positive activist. I have been a participant in campus and community activism for free speech and against the AIDS crisis, homophobia, racism and militarism.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 1996, Northwestern University

M.A., Sociology, 1991, Northwestern University

B.A., Psychology, 1987, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Selected Publications

2013. “ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Eds, David A. Snow, Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam. Oxford, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.

2012. (with Mary Yu Danico) Transforming the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in the Academy. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

2012. “Queering the Ivory Tower: Tales of a Trouble Making Homosexual.” In Transforming the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in the Academy. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.

2011. “Men’s Responsibility to Challenge Gender Violence.” IMPACT Chicago. Two part series: August 8 & 15, 2011. http://www.impactchicago.blogspot.com/

2011. “The Odyssey of the Utterly Fabulous Mario Sierra: Living in the Borderlands.” The Bilerico Project: Daily Experiments in LGBTQ. Four part series: May 3-6, 2011. http://www.bilerico.com/2011/05/the_odyssey_of_the_utterly_fabulous_mario_sierra.php#more.

2007. “Anti-Racist Social Movements.” Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Eds. John H. Moore et al. MacMillan Reference Library.

2003. Activism Against AIDS: At the Intersections of Sexuality, Race, Gender and Class. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press.

2003. (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow) “Beyond the Hollywood Hype: Using Documentary to Unmask State Oppression Against People of Color." Reversing the Lens: Crossing Cultures through Film. Eds. Lane Hirayabashi and Jun Xing. Boulder: University of Colorado Press.

2001. "Blood at the Roots: A Structural Analysis of Racist Violence." Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Vol. 38, No. 4.

2001. "Forging a Multidimensional Oppositional Consciousness: Lessons from Community Based AIDS Activism." Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest. Eds. Jane Mansbridge and Aldon Morris. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

1999. "Social Movements and the Criminal Justice System: The Use of Repression to Undermine AIDS Activism." Criminal Justice/Social Justice: The Maturation of Critical Thought in Law, Crime and Deviance Theory. Ed. Bruce Arrigo. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press.

1995. "(Mis)Treating Prisoners with AIDS: Analyzing Health Care Behind Bars." Research in the Sociology of Health Care - Volume 12. Ed. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld. Greenwich, CN: JAI Press Inc.

Professional Affiliations & Membership

American Sociological Association

Midwest Sociological Society

b-stockdill@neiu.edu

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(773) 442-4772

Office Hours

TBA

Main Campus

Durene

Wheeler

Ph.D.

Professor

Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies

African and African American Studies

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Education

(773) 442-4162

d-wheeler@neiu.edu

Expertise

Educational Histories of Marginalized Groups ~~ (specifically African Americans and women)
Social Justice and Anti-Racist Pedagogy
Culturally Relevant Teaching and Learning
Community & Teacher Leadership Training
Authoethnography and Qualitative Research Methods
Curriculum and Instructional Design
Higher Education and Student Affairs

Courses Taught

AFAM 200 Introduction to African and African American Studies

AFAM 301 Foundations of African Civilizations

EDFN 305: Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education

EDFN 307: Psychology of Instruction and Learning

EDFN 314B/WSP 311C: Power, Knowledge & Communities: Feminists Engagements with Education

EDFN 410 Education as a Social Institution

EDFN 451 Research Methods

WGS 101 Feminist Perspectives and Values

Research Interests

Development, Recruitment, and Retention of Diverse Faculty
Blended Instruction
Social Justice and Anti-Racist Education and Teaching Practices
Critical Race Theory and Education
Bias, Cultural Competency and Cultural Awareness
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
History of Marginalized Groups and Women in relation to education and leadership

Education

B.A. The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 1989

M.A. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1996

Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 2004

Selected Publications

Book

Perlow, Olivia, Wheeler, Durene, Bethea, Sharon, and Scott, BarBara (Eds.). (2018) Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Perlow, Olivia, Bethea, S., Wheeler D. (2014) "Dismantling the Master’s House: Black Women Faculty Challenging White Privilege/Supremacy in the College Classroom." Resistance to Teaching Anti-Racism, Special Edition for Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. Online at https://www.wpcjournal.com/article/view/12307.

Wheeler, Durene I. (2008) “Answering the Call: Influencing Equity in Education through Teacher Preparation”, pp.63-68, in The Sophist Bane 4(1&2), Spring.

Book Chapters

Wheeler, Durene I. (2017). Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda. In Betty M. Lovelace-Ross (Ed.), A Collection of Sayings of Mama’Nem: The Wit and Wisdom of Mama, Muhdear, and Othermothers (pp. 85-87). Prospect, KY: Professional Women Publishing, LLC.

Wheeler, Durene I., & Nitihirageza, Jeanine (2013). Teach Me About Africa: Facilitating and Training Educators toward a Socially Just Curriculum. In Brandon D. Lundy & Solomon Negash (Eds.), Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st Century Classroom (pp. 104-111), Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indian University Press.

King, Toni C., Barnes-Wright, Lenora, Gibson, Nancy E., Johnson, Lakesia D., Lee, Valerie, Lovelace, Betty M.,Turner, Sonya, Wheeler, Durene I. (2002). “Andrea’s Third Shift: The Invisible Work of African American Women in Higher Education, pp. 403-415” in This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, Gloria Anzaldua and Ana Louise Keating, eds. New York: Routledge.

Selected Exhibitions

Social Justice Webinar

Constructing Difference: Understanding the Role of Social Justice in the Classroom, WEBINAR, November 8, 2017, Harper College, Palatine, IL. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn90C9e2Cs0&feature=youtu.be

In this webinar, Dr. Wheeler provides an introduction to faculty interested in creating a more socially just classroom. Through an examination of terminology and tenets of social justice as it relates to teaching and learning, participants examine how faculty and student identities impact content, comprehension, and classroom climate.

Selected Performances

A Diverse Fellow Writes Back: The Success and Pitfalls of Diverse Faculty Recruitment Programs at the National Organization for Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon May 2019

Pedagogy of the Heart: Evoking Empathy Through Literature and Film at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates 25th Anniversary Conference, Dallas, Texas February 2017

Empowering Black and Brown Youth: Identifying and Overcoming Degrading Practices in 21st Century Elementary Classrooms at the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana February 2016

The Use of Emotion in the Classroom as Feminist Pedagogy at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference Feminist Transgressions, San Juan, Puerto Rico November 2014

Black Women Faculty and Administrators Negotiating the Academy at the National Council for Black Studies 38th Annual Conference, Miami, FL March 2014

Professional Affiliations & Membership

National Association of Student Affairs Professionals (NASAP) 1992-presentAmeri…

Research Association (AERA) 1999- present

History of Education Society (HES) 2000-present

National Association of Women Studies (NWSA) 2000-present

Background

Durene I. Wheeler, Ph.D., is Professor at 91Porn in the department of Educational Inquiry & Curriculum Studies. She holds a core faculty appointment in African & African American Studies (AFAM) along with Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies (WGS). Dr. Wheeler has served as Program Coordinator for both AFAM and WGS academic programs. Additionally, Dr. Wheeler served as founding Graduate Facilitator and Advisor for the Master of Arts in Community and Teacher Leaders program at NEIU.

Her teaching and research interests include historical intersections of race, class, and gender in U.S. Education, practical application methods of critical race and feminist pedagogy, and helping teachers and parents in fostering more socially justice classrooms and school environments. Dr. Wheeler has presented at several National and Regional conferences on issues of intersectionality, social justice in education and anti-racist pedagogy. She is co-editor of the anthology Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing within and Beyond the Academy addressing the pedagogical practices of Black women in and outside of the academy across multiple disciplines.

Additional Information

Honors and Awards

2018-2019: Faculty Award of Excellence Black Heritage Committee

2011-2012: NEIU Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching

2010-2011: NEIU Faculty Excellence Award in Service

2009-2010: NEIU Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching

2008-2009: Melvin Terrell Black Heritage Excellence Award in Research

d-wheeler@neiu.edu

91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4162

Office Hours

By appointment

Main Campus

Brooke Johnson

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Johnson

Coordinator, Professor

Courses Taught

SOC 331: Military Sociology

SOC 332: Sociology of Education

SOC 335: Sociological Theory

SOC 339: Introduction to Social Statistics

SOC 340: Sociology of Sexualities

SOC 351: Senior Seminar in Sociology

Research Interests

Informed by my broad interest in social inequality, my areas of specialization include: education, militarization, gender and sexualities.

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, 2009, University of California, Riverside

M.A., Sociology, 2005, University of California, Riverside

B.A., Sociology, 2000, Boise State University

Selected Publications

Johnson, Brooke. 2014. Culture and Structure at a Military Charter School: From School Ground to Battle Ground. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Johnson, Brooke. 2010. "A Few Good Boys: Masculinity at a Military-style Charter School." Men and Masculinities 12(5):575-596.

Aguirre, Jr., Adalberto and Brooke Johnson. 2005. "Militarizing Youth in Public Education: Observations from a Military-Style Charter School." Social Justice 32(3):148-162.

Professional Affiliations & Membership

National Women's Studies Association

American Sociological Association

Society for the Study of Social Problems

Midwest Sociological Society

b-johnson16@neiu.edu

Office Hours

TBA

LWH 2085
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-4771

Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Sociology