Erica R. Meiners, Ph.D.
Professor
Educational Foundations
Women’s Studies
Latina/o and Latin American Studies
Office: LWH 4008
Phone: 773-442-5515
Fax: 773-442-5520
E-mail Address: e-meiners@neiu.edu
Website Address: http://www.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/
Mailing Address:
Northeastern Illinois University
Department of Educational Leadership and Development
5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Education
1998
Ph.D. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1992
B.A. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Current Research Interests/Methodologies
Educational policy: prison/school nexus, lesbian/gay/transgendered/queers and schools, poverty, immigration/undocumented students, alternative media in education.
Justice movements and anti-prison organizing: feminisms, criminalization of undocumented communities, prison abolition and decarceration movements, militarism of youth.
Methodologies: participatory action research, community-based organizing and research, feminist research methodologies.
Biography
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. Follow her work at http://www.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/
Courses Taught
Select Professional Accomplishments
Awards and Honors
Publications
Books
Professor
Educational Foundations
Women’s Studies
Latina/o and Latin American Studies
Office: LWH 4008
Phone: 773-442-5515
Fax: 773-442-5520
E-mail Address: e-meiners@neiu.edu
Website Address: http://www.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/
Mailing Address:
Northeastern Illinois University
Department of Educational Leadership and Development
5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Education
1998
Ph.D. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1992
B.A. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada
Current Research Interests/Methodologies
Educational policy: prison/school nexus, lesbian/gay/transgendered/queers and schools, poverty, immigration/undocumented students, alternative media in education.
Justice movements and anti-prison organizing: feminisms, criminalization of undocumented communities, prison abolition and decarceration movements, militarism of youth.
Methodologies: participatory action research, community-based organizing and research, feminist research methodologies.
Biography
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. Follow her work at http://www.neiu.edu/~ermeiner/
Courses Taught
- EDFN 305: Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Public Education
- EDFN 416: Cultural Pluralism in Schools
- EDFN 405: Development of Educational Thought
- EDFN 416: Cultural Pluralism and Schools
- ELAD 429: Research Methods R
- SOC 104: School and Society
- EDFN 314 & WS 301: Race, Class, Gender and Education
- WS 202: Feminist Activism
- SOC 320: Sociology of Education
Select Professional Accomplishments
Awards and Honors
- 2011 National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) PASS Awards (Prevention for a Safer Society) Book Award, Education or Incarceration? Reclaiming Hope and Justice in a Punishing Democracy.
- 2010 Critics Choice Award American Educational Studies Association, Flaunt It!
- 2009-2010 MS Magazine/Ford Foundation Scholar
- 2009-2010 Lillian J. Robinson Visiting Scholar Award – Simone de Beauvoir Institute
- 2009 NEIU Black History Month Community Service Award
- 2003 & 2005 & 2007 Northeastern Illinois University Faculty Excellence Award in Research
- 2005 Beyondmedia Education Excellence in Leadership and Vision for Women and Girls
- 2002-2003 Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Public Scholarship Award
- 2002-2003 Illinois Humanities Grant, Women and Prison: A toolkit for resistance, co-authored with J. Archibald, S. Chasnoff & A. Russo
Publications
Books
- Ayers, B., Kumashiro, K., Meiners E., Quinn, T, and Stovall, D. (2010). Teaching toward democracy.Activism toolkit series. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
- Meiners, E., and Quinn, T. (2009). Flaunt It! Queers in the struggle for public education and justice. New York: Peter Lang Press.
- Meiners, E. (2007). Right to be hostile: Schools, prisons and the making of public enemies. New York: Routledge/Falmer Press.
- Ibáñez-Carrasco, F., & Meiners, E. (Eds.) (2004). Public acts: Disruptive readings on curriculum and social research. Re-engaging the public sphere series with Routledge/Falmer Press.
- Meiners, E. and Winn, Maisha. (September, 2010). Incarceration and Education: Dismantle, Change, and Build. Special journal issue of Race, Ethnicity and Education 13 (3).
- 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.
- http://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.
- 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.