Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
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.
Room LWH 2006
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
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.
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
"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)
GRANTS
“Effects of violence on women’s retention at NEIU and assessment of related campus responses.” Northeastern Illinois University 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
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5500 N. St. Louis Ave.
Laurie Fuller
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986
“’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.
Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.
Room LWH 2016 or Room B 147
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
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.
Ph.D. Spanish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2016
M.A. Spanish, Ohio University, Athens, OH 2007
B.A. Spanish, Ohio University, Athens, OH 2005
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Yucateco Pirate Novels and the Discourses of the Mayan Rebel in the Nineteenth-Century Creole Imaginary.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Washington University, St. Louis. Forthcoming.
Book Chapters:
"A Neoliberal Love Spell: Race, Tourism and the Yucatan Peninsula and an Analysis of Televisa’s Sortilegio." In Mobilized Identities: Mediated Subjectivity and Cultural Crisis in the Neoliberal Era. Ed. Cameron McCarthy. Champaign, IL: Common Grounds Publishing, 2014
INVITED LECTURES
“La literatura en español de Chicago: imaginarios de resistencia y resiliencia.” La cuarta feria del libro de Chicago, Virtual. Oct 16 2021.
Marín, Pedro Pablo, host. “El barroco latinoamericano y la imagen-como-presencia.” Xochipilli Magazine, Season 1, Ep 1. Sept 21 2021.
“A Hemispheric Perspective of US Policing Practices: Borders, (Im)migration and Criminalization.” December 2nd, 2020. FUND Students, Defund Police. Pedroso Center, Northeastern Illinois University, Virtual (COVID-19).
“Literatura de inmigración: Exploring the Midwest’s Spanish-Language Literary Production.” 20 Feb 2019. Western Carolina University: The Josefina Niggli Latinx Speaker Series. Invited Speaker.
Hyland, Steven, host. “Mayan Studies Today with Sarah West and Sarah Williams.” Historias, 11 Aug. 2019. Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies [SECOLAS], 2019.
Yucatán Caste Wars in “Contemporary” Maaya T’aan Bilingual Literature: En busca de María Uicab (Rosado Rosado and Chablé Mendoza) and Cecilio Chi’ (Gomez Navarrete). Latin Ameriican Studies Association Conference. San Francisco. May 5-8, 2022.
CONFERENCE PAPERS DELIVERED
“In Chan Kaajalo’ob: Orality, Identity, and the Cultural Production of Mayan Latinxs.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Virtual (COVID-19). March 27-30, 2021.
“Aproximaciones académicas a la literatura en español de Chicago”. Latino Studies Association. Pending (postponed due to COVID-19).
“Literary Visions of the Caste War in Eligio Ancona’s La Mestiza (1861).” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 27-30, 2019.
“The Voices of Yucatán’s Caste War Rebels: a Literary Perspective.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 27-30, 2019.
“Mayanism, Caste War and the Mexican Revolution: The Shifting Discourses of Race in the Literatures of Early Twentieth-Century Yucatán.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Nashville, Tennessee. March 8-11, 2018.
2018-
Assistant Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
2017-2018
Visiting Instructor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
2010-2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
2009-2010
Adjunct Professor, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
2007-2009
Instructor, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Colegio de Negocios Internacionales, Mérida, Yucatán, México
Study Abroad Instructor, Ohio University, Mérida, Yucatán, México
2005-2007
Teaching Assistant, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Room LWH 2035
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
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.
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.
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. Northeastern Illinois University. 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.
Assistant Professor of Spanish. Northeastern Illinois University 2011-
Teaching Assistant. Spanish and Portuguese. Tulane University 2006-2011
Preceptor. Spanish. Tulane University 2010
LWH 2042
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
B.A. in English and Sociology, Towson State University, 1983
M.A. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1985
Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Purdue University, 1993
Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, 2009.
Instructor's Resource Manual for The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997. Also, Second Edition, 2000.
Vicki Byard joined the NEIU faculty in 1991. Some of the highlights of her career at NEIU have been serving as the Chair of the Task Force for Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ and Women Students (2012), receiving the Martha Thompson Outstanding Faculty Award from the Women's and Gender Studies Program (2017), serving as Chair of the Faculty Senate (2018-2020), serving as Faculty Fellow in the Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs (2018-2020), and teaching intensive thesis-writing course to International Relations students at the University of Warsaw (2019). In her personal life, she has raised two children, volunteered for social justice initiatives, and performed stories she has written for live literature events.
LWH 2017
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Sociology, 2007, Loyola University, Chicago
M.A., Sociology, 2003, Loyola University, Chicago
B.A., Public Relations, 1995, Columbia College, Chicago
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.
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
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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
B.A. Liberal Arts, St. John's College (Annapolis, MD)
Ph.D. Philosophy, Boston University
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
Room LWH 3086
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Monday: 2:15-4 p.m.
Wednesday: 10-11:30 a.m.
M.A. Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, 2010
B.A. Philosophy, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, 2001
B.A. Sociology, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
Office Staff, Department of World Languages and Cultures, Northeastern Illnois University, 1992 to present.
Lech Walesa Hall 2040
5500 N Saint Louis Avenue
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Medieval and Byzantine History, Ph.D., 2013
Room LWH 4081
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
The University of Akron, Akron OH
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.
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.
Room BBH 307E
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Sociology, 2009, University of California, Riverside
M.A., Sociology, 2005, University of California, Riverside
B.A., Sociology, 2000, Boise State University
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.
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Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
• 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
LWH 4063
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
1998
Ph.D. Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada
1992
B.A. Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada
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.
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.
Room LWH 4008
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Monday: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
and by appointment.
Ph.D. from University of Michigan
B.S. in Psychology from Morehouse College
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.
Room BBH 307 D
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
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
PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS
Messinger, A. M. (2017). LGBTQ intimate partner violence: Lessons for policy, practice, and research. University of California Press: Oakland, CA.
[http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520286054]
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.
[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-9188-0_4]
Messinger, A. M., & Roark, J. (In Press). LGBTQ partner violence. In W. S. DeKeseredy, C. Rennison, & A. Hall-Sanchez (Eds.) The Routledge international handbook of violence studies. Routledge: London.
Messinger, A. M., & Roark, J. (In Press). Transgender intimate partner violence and aging. In M. Houlberg (Ed.) Transgender health and aging: Culturally competent care for transgender aging patients. Springer: New York.
Messinger, A. M., & Koon-Magnin, S. (In Press). Sexual violence in LGBTQ communities. In W. O’Donohue, C. Cummings, & P. A. Schewe (Eds.) Handbook of sexual assault prevention. Springer: New York.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
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.
[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-013-9826-7]
Messinger, A. M. (In Press). Bidirectional same-gender and sexual minority intimate partner violence. Violence and Gender.
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.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260510383023]
Messinger, A. M. (2012). Teaching content analysis through Harry Potter. Teaching Sociology, 40(4), 360-367.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0092055X12445461]
Messinger, A. M. (2015). Teaching interactionist gender theory through speed dating. Teaching Sociology, 43(2), 154-162.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0092055X14568849]
Messinger, A. M., Birmingham, R. S., DeKeseredy, W. S. (In Press). Perceptions of same-gender and different-gender intimate partner cyber-monitoring. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
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.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260510372933]
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.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077801214546907]
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.
[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15388220.2012.706875]
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. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260512438276]
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.
[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13575279.2013.785932]
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.
[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10926771.2013.743945]
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.
[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260516646093]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Coltrane, S., & Messinger, A. M. (2008). Men. In W. A. Darity, Jr. (Ed.) International encyclopedia of the social sciences, 80-82. MacMillian Reference.
Messinger, A. M. (2017). The isolation of transgender, undocumented victims of domestic violence. The Huffington Post.
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ac56dbe4b029c1d1f88eeb]
My research centers on intimate partner violence (IPV) – psychological, physical, or sexual abuse within romantic and sexual relationships – among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals. Research has found that LGBTQ individuals are more likely than heterosexuals to experience IPV and its many negative consequences, and yet policies, services, and interventions often overlook this stigmatized population. To help raise awareness about and improve solutions to LGBTQ IPV, I am currently working on several projects:
o Co-Editor for what will be amongst the first books published on transgender IPV (est. publication in 2019).
o Co-Investigator on a 5-year longitudinal study of the causal pathways leading into and out of healthy and unhealthy sexual minority youth relationships.
o Principal Investigator on a multi-city study about peer support for LGBTQ IPV perpetrators.
o Co-Principal Investigator on a study about syndemic family violence risk factors and outcomes among LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender university students.
I look forward to continuing to serve those who live in what scholars have termed a "double closet": LGBTQ victims silenced not only by fear of their abusers but also by the fear that those who are homophobic and transphobic in society will refuse to help them.
To learn more about this important issue, or if you are interested in future research collaborations, volunteer research positions, speaking engagements, or media interviews, please contact me at my listed University email address.
Room LWH 4069
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States
Ph.D., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2000
M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 1993
B.A., Political Science, University of Florida 1982
“‘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
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5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Columbia University
History, Ph.D., 1998
"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.
Room LWH 4095
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Ph.D., Sociology, 2008, Howard University
M.A., Sociology, 2004, Howard University
B.A., Sociology, 2000, Howard University
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
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
Room LWH 2089
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
and by appointment
Ph.D., Sociology, 1996, Northwestern University
M.A., Sociology, 1991, Northwestern University
B.A., Psychology, 1987, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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.
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
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Chicago, IL 60625
United States
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
Durene I. Wheeler, Ph.D., is Professor at Northeastern Illinois University 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.
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
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States