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Rebecca Ropers-Huilman – 1

Rebecca Ropers-Huilman Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, & Development

330 Wulling Hall 86 Pleasant St. SE

University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455

[email protected] Formal Education Ph.D. in Educational Administration, Higher Education Concentration University of Wisconsin-Madison M.S. in Educational Administration, Higher Education Concentration University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A. in Psychology and German University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Study Abroad Semester in Rosenheim, Germany Professional Employment and Experience Chair, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, August, 2010 – Present Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Lead a department of five program areas serving more than seven hundred graduate and three hundred undergraduate students in Comparative and International Development Education, Education Policy and Leadership, Evaluation Studies, Higher Education, Human Resource Development, and Organizational Leadership. Facilitate internal and external communication and collaboration to further our departmental mission of advancing knowledge about educational and organizational change in local, national, and international contexts. Collaboratively develop and implement departmental strategic planning.

Professor, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, August, 2007 – Present

Coordinator, Higher Education Program, 2008 – 2010 Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Graduate Faculty, Feminist Studies Graduate Faculty, Sociocultural Studies in Education Develop scholarship on equity and diversity in postsecondary education, organizational change, and feminist education. Engage in national, university, and departmental leadership processes, especially in areas related to diversity and equity and graduate education. Serve in university-wide governance groups, including Women’s Faculty Cabinet, Faculty Consultative Committee, and Faculty Senate. Teach graduate classes in higher education, including:

Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education Gender & Sexuality in Higher Education College Students: International Perspectives Critical Issues in Higher Education College Students Today (United States Focus) Organizational Change for Diversity and Equity Introductory Doctoral Seminar


Editor, Feminist Formations, June, 2007 - August, 2011 Facilitated all aspects of developing and producing an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes innovative work by scholars, activists, and practitioners in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. Solicited manuscripts, facilitated reviews, and provided editorial direction to authors whose scholarship included national, global, and transnational feminist thought and practice; the cultural and social politics of genders and sexualities; and historical and contemporary studies of gendered experience. Provided direction to editorial staff, recruited and collaborated with international advisory board, and developed all aspects of publication of Feminist Formations with staff at Johns Hopkins University Press. J. Franklin Bayhi Professor, Louisiana State University, Designated Spring, 2007

Associate Professor with Tenure, Louisiana State University, 2002 – 2007 Coordinator, Higher Education Program, 2000 - 2007

Assistant Professor, 1996 – 2002 Department of Educational Leadership, Research, and Counseling/Women’s and Gender Studies Developed scholarship on feminist education, identity and diversity in education, and civic education. Advised graduate students on research and career development, including advising 24 doctoral students to completion. Taught graduate and undergraduate classes in higher education and women’s and gender studies, including:

Race and Gender in Higher Education Curriculum and College Teaching Foundations of Higher Education College Students in the United States Student Affairs Administration Introduction to Women’s Studies Women, Gender, and Leadership Educational Inquiry for Social Justice Qualitative Research Methods Feminist Theory

Director, Louisiana State University, August, 2005 – June, 2007 Women’s and Gender Studies Collaboratively led interdisciplinary program of 85 faculty and staff members dedicated to the study of Women’s and Gender Studies. Enhanced undergraduate and graduate student experiences through curricular revisions and innovations, including development of a graduate minor. Facilitated the approval and hiring of the first three jointly-appointed WGS faculty. Promoted interdisciplinary scholarship through research, teaching, and service. Collaborated with the Women’s Center, the Commission on the Status of Women, and community groups to enhance the climate for women at LSU and in the greater Baton Rouge community. Director, Louisiana State University, August, 2001-August, 2002 Women’s Center Oversaw all functions of the Women’s Center, including student staff supervision, facility management, and community-wide programming. Advised Vice Provost for Diversity on institutional policy issues. Secured $25,000 Technology Grant to enhance technological resources of the center. Collaborated to facilitate visit of Senator Mary Landrieu to LSU. Secured funding to hire first full-time Women’s Center Director at LSU.


Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September, 1992 – August, 1996 Department of Educational Administration Collaboratively conducted qualitative research with Colleen Capper, Angela Smithmier, and Sandy Hanson on community-based interagency collaboration to enhance low-income communities. Conducted observations and interviews with service providers, to include police officers, public health nurses, social workers, and educators. Analyzed data using qualitative research software (HyperResearch), and disseminated findings in national, regional, and local forums. Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring, 1994 Department of Educational Administration Assisted Professor Clifton Conrad and Dean of Students Mary Rouse in a graduate course on The Administration of Student Affairs. Assistant Complex Director (Hall Director), Mankato State University, August, 1991 – June, 1992 Department of Residential Life Collaboratively developed a living-learning environment for over 300 undergraduate students through the coordination of and support for resident advisors, student council members, and programming. Partnered with other residential life staff to ensure effective environment for holistic student development. Additional work experience in higher education environments: Intern, Career and Placement Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993. Program Assistant, Center on Education and Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1993. Intern, Office of Academic Affairs, Mankato State University, 1992. Teaching Assistant, Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1991. Resident Assistant, Residential Life, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1989-1991. Honors/Professional Development Outstanding Academic Advising Award Recipient, Graduate and Professional Student Association, University of Minnesota, 2012. This award is given to graduate advisers from across the university who have demonstrated advising excellence as described by students with whom they have worked.

Academic Leadership Fellow, Committee on Institutional Collaboration (CIC), 2010-2011. Five fellows from across the university are selected by the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs each year to engage in year-long professional development with colleagues from across CIC institutions.

Disney Leadership Institute Participant, Anaheim, CA, 2010. Five leaders in the College of Education and Human Development were selected for participation in this leadership institute, which focused on fostering positive and productive cultures across contexts. Multicultural Teaching and Learning Fellow, University of Minnesota, 2008-2009 ($2500). Six fellows are selected from across the university to participate in a year-long professional development process focusing on enhancing course pedagogy and content through multicultural knowledge and practice. J. Franklin Bayhi Endowed Professorship, Louisiana State University, 2007. This named professorship is granted to one faculty member by the Dean of the College of Education.


Louisiana State University Foundation Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2007 ($1500). This award is given to a faculty member whose students and colleagues attest to their teaching excellence. Outstanding Faculty Contribution, Women’s & Gender Studies, Louisiana State University, 2007. This award is given to one faculty member in WGS who makes significant contributions to the unit through research, teaching, and/or service.

Distinguished Faculty Award, Louisiana State University, 2006 ($1000 salary increase). This award is given to a faculty member who demonstrates excellence in all areas of scholarly responsibilities, to include research, teaching, and service. Selected Participant, Lead Academe, Louisiana State University, 2005-2006. This year-long leadership program included emerging leaders from across the university and focused on understanding one’s leadership strengths, skill development, and leading in complex academic settings. Alternate, American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2003. This fellowship provides a one-year fellowship to support a woman scholar’s research. College of Education Student Council Award for Outstanding Faculty, Louisiana State University, 2001. This award is given by the Student Council for outstanding contributions to students in the college. Women’s and Gender Studies Outstanding Faculty Feminist Activist Award, Louisiana State University, 2001. This award is given to a faculty member who actively works toward equity through her/his scholarly work.

Phi Kappa Phi/LSU Alumni Association Non-tenured Faculty Award for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2000 ($1000). This award is given to one faculty member in the university who has demonstrated outstanding research, teaching, and service early in her/his career. Dissertation of the Year Award, American Educational Research Association SIG: Research on Women in Education, 1997. This award recognizes the most outstanding dissertation focusing on women and education in a given year. Finalist and Cited for Excellence, Dissertation of the Year Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 1996. This award recognizes excellence in dissertations focusing on higher education in a given year. Funding Funded • Fulbright-Klagenfurt Visiting Professor in Higher Education Research, Spring, 2014. Understanding

Gender in the Transformation of Austrian University Education. Vienna, Austria. • Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy Multicultural Research Award, 2011. $7000. • Interdisciplinary Graduate Group Grant, Educational Access Graduate Group, 2009. Co-investigator

with Karen Miksch, Heidi Barajas, and Geoff Mayurama. $10,000. • University Presbyterian Community Service Grant, Building a Safe House: Feminist Theory in

Action, 2006. Principal investigator with Feminist Theory students. $1000. • Faculty Research Travel Award, Office of Research & Graduate Studies, 2006. $750.


• Faculty Research Award, Office of Sponsored Research & Graduate School, 2004. $2400. • Technology Grant, Louisiana State University Women’s Center, 2002. $25,000. • Service-Learning Community Grant, 2000. Co-investigator with Marybeth Lima, Biological

Engineering, and Claudia Eppert, Curriculum and Instruction. $9000. • LaCEPT Grant, Implementing service-learning and systemic reform to enhance science, engineering

and mathematics education, 2000. Co-investigator with Marybeth Lima. $58,481; Extension granted in 2001, $30,000.

• Teaching Innovation Incentive Grant. Co-investigator with Sondra Smith, 1999. $2000. • Council on Research Summer Research Funding, 1998. $5000.

Unfunded

• USAID Advancing the Agenda of Gender Equality, 2013. Prime: The Mitchell Group, University of

Minnesota Co-Principal Investigators Rebecca Ropers-Huilman and David Chapman. Unfunded. • Access to Success, Institute of Education Sciences, United States Department of Education, 2007,

2008. Co-investigator with PIs Amy Lee & Karen Miksch. $1,178,463, Unfunded. • Enhancing Interdisciplinary Studies at LSU: Women’s & Gender Studies, Board of Regents Support

Fund, 2005. Principal Investigator with Nina Asher and John Larkin. $51,900, Unfunded. • ADVANCE Award, National Science Foundation, 2005. Principal Investigator with Isiah Warner,

Marybeth Lima, Dominique Homberger, and Stacey Simmons. $3.75 million, Unfunded. Research and Publications Books Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Martínez Aléman, Ana, Davis, Tracy, Marine, Susan, & Winters, Kelly. (Eds.)

(In Process). Critical perspectives on gender in higher education. Allan, Elizabeth, Iverson, Susan, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (Eds.) (2010). Reconstructing policy in higher

education: Feminist poststructural perspectives. New York: Routledge. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (Ed.). (2003). Gendered futures in higher education: Critical perspectives for change. Albany, NY:

State University of New York Press. Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Townsend, Barbara, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (Eds.). (2000). Women in American

higher education: A feminist perspective (Vol. 2). Needham Heights, MA: Ginn. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1998). Feminist teaching in theory and practice: Situating power and knowledge in

poststructural classrooms. New York: Teachers College. Refereed Publications Enke, Kathryn A. E., Winters, Kelly T., & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2013) Creating my own story:

Catholic women’s college students narrating their lives. Journal of College Student Development, 54 (5): 481-496.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2013). Engaging whiteness in higher education. In Lisa M. Landreman (Ed.)

The art of effective facilitation: Reflections from social justice educators (pp. 81-100). Sterling, VA: Stylus.


Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Winters, Kelly T., & Enke, Kathryn A.E. (2013). Discourses of whiteness:

White students at Catholic women’s colleges (dis)engaging race. Journal of Higher Education, 84 (1): 28-55.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & McCoy, Dorian. (2011). Student change agents as citizens in contemporary

universities: Achieving the potential of engagement. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 27(3). http://journal.jctonline.org/index.php/jct/article/view/240

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Winters, Kelly. (2011). Feminist methodology in higher education. Journal of

Higher Education, 82 (6): 667-690. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Enke, Kathryn A. E. (2010). Catholic women’s college students’

constructions of identity: The influence of faculty and staff on students’ personal and professional self-understanding. NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education, 3 (1): 85-113.

Enke, Kathryn A. E., & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010) Defining and achieving success: Perspectives

from students at Catholic women's colleges. Higher Education in Review, 7: 1-22. Barnett, Kathy, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Aaron, Laura. (2008). A planning process perspective on

student activists’ upward influence attempts to effect campus change. Southern Communication Journal, 73 (4): 1–15.

Fruge, Cheryl W., & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2008). Epistemological congruency in community college

classrooms: Effects of epistemological beliefs on students’ experiences. College Teaching, 56 (2): 121-127.

Hill, Jackie, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Del Favero, Marietta. (2006). The role of mentoring in the

development of African American nurse leaders. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice International Journal, 19 (4): 341-356.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Carwile, Laura, & Lima, Marybeth. (2005). Service-learning in Engineering: A

valuable pedagogy for achieving professional standards. European Journal of Engineering Education, 30 (2): 155-165. [Selected for Archival in Annals of Research on Engineering Education]

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Carwile, Laura, & Barnett, Kathy. (2005). Student activists’ characterizations of

administrators in higher education: Perceptions of power in “the system.” Review of Higher Education, 28 (3): 295-312.

Smith-Adcock, Sondra, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Choate, Laura Hensley. (2004). Feminist teaching in

counseling education: Promoting multicultural understanding. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 32: 402-414.

Wallace, Dawn D., Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Abel, Ron. (2004) Working in the margins: A study of

university professionals serving marginalized student populations. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Journal, 41 (4): 569-587. http://publications.naspa.org/naspajournal/vol41/iss4/art1

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2003). Evolutions of self and research: Autobiography and knowledge related

to women in higher education. Proteus: A Journal of Ideas, 20 (3): 51-54.


Eppert, Claudia, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Lima, Marybeth. (2003). Engendering respect in a service-

learning community: Teaching and learning in a multidisciplinary partnership. Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly, 4 (1): 89-104.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2003). Witnessing and advocacy in educational leadership. Journal of School

Leadership, 13 (5): 581-610. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2001). Feminist poststructuralism in higher education: Opportunities for

transforming teaching and learning. Organization, 8 (2): 388-395. Wallace, Dawn, Abel, Ron, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2000). Clearing a path for success:

Deconstructing borders through mentoring in higher education. Review of Higher Education, 24 (1): 87-102.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1999). Scholarship on the other side: Power and caring in feminist education.

National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 11 (1), 118-135. Reprinted in: • Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Townsend, Barbara, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (Eds.). (2000).

Women in American higher education: A feminist perspective (Vol. 2). • Crabtree, Robbin D., Sapp, David Alan, & Licona, Adela C. (2009). Feminist pedagogy: Looking back

to move forward (pp. 40-58). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1999). Social justice in the classroom: Understanding the implications of

interlocking oppressions. College Teaching, 47 (3): 91-95. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1999). Witnessing: Critical inquiry in a poststructural world. International

Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 12 (1): 21-35. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1999). Troublesome texts: Re-searching, re-reading, and re-telling hard data.

Journal for Just and Caring Education, 5 (2): 183-195. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1997). Constructing feminist teachers: Complexities of identity. Gender and

Education, 9 (3): 327-343. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1996). Still waters run deep: Meanings of silence in feminist classrooms.

Feminist Teacher, 10 (1): 3-7. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1996). The usefulness of critique: Power and criticism in feminist education.

The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 18 (2): 155-164. Capper, Colleen, Hanson, Sandi, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1994). Community-based interagency

collaboration: A poststructural interruption of critical practices. Journal of Education Policy, 9 (4): 335-351.

Invited Articles & Book Chapters Winters, Kelly T., Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Shahjahan, Riyad, Osei-Kofi, Nana, Cleghorne, Nicholas A.,

& Hakkola, Leah. (2012). Reimagining and enacting possibilities for social justice in the academy. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 1 (1). http://www.elps.hs.iastate.edu/jctp-current.php


Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Iverson, Susan, & Allan, Elizabeth. (2010). Questions and complexities in

feminist poststructural policy analysis. In Elizabeth Allan, Susan Iverson, & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman (Eds.) Reconstructing policy in higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives (pp. 235-240). New York: Routledge.

Hoffman, Jennifer Lee, Iverson, Susan, Allan, Elizabeth, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010). Title IX

policy and intercollegiate athletics: A feminist poststructural critique. In Elizabeth Allan, Susan Iverson, & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman (Eds.) Reconstructing policy in higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives (pp. 129-146). New York: Routledge.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010). Motivated to make a difference: Gendered motivations of student

change agents. In Elizabeth Allan, Susan Iverson, & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman (Eds.) Reconstructing policy in higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives (pp. 171-192). New York: Routledge.

Allan, Elizabeth, Iverson, Susan, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010). Introduction. In Elizabeth Allan,

Susan Iverson, & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman (Eds.) Reconstructing policy in higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives (pp. 1-10). New York: Routledge.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Enke, Kathryn A. E. (2010). Diversity and interdisciplinarity: Exploring

complexities and the intersections of the academy. In T. Elon Dancy II (Ed.) Managing diversity: (Re)visioning equity on college campuses (pp. 11-24). New York: Peter Lang.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Winters, Kelly. (2010). Imagining intersectionality and the spaces in between: Theories and processes of socially transformative knowing. In Maggi Savin-Baden & Claire Howell Major (Eds.) New approaches to qualitative research: Wisdom and uncertainty (pp. 37-48). New York: Routledge.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Palmer, Betsy. (2008). Civic and feminist education: Bridging parallel

approaches to teaching and learning. In Sue Bracken, Diane Dean, & Jeanie Allen (Eds.) Most college students are women: Implications for teaching, learning and policy (pp. 11-28). Stylus Publishing.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2008). Women faculty and the dance of identities: Constructing self and

privilege within community. In Judith Glazer-Raymo (Ed.) Unfinished agendas: Women, gender, and the new challenges of higher education (pp. 35-51). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Clark, Menthia, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2006). Gender in educational leadership. In Fenwick English

(Ed.) Encyclopedia of educational leadership and administration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Taliaferro, Denise. (2003). Advocacy education: Teaching, research, and difference

in higher education. In Gendered futures in higher education: Critical perspectives for change (pp. 151-177). Albany, NY: SUNY.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Shackelford, Monisa. (2003). Negotiating identities and making change: Feminist

faculty in higher education. In Gendered futures in higher education: Critical perspectives for change (pp. 135-147). Albany, NY: SUNY.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2003). Gender in the future of higher education. In Gendered futures in higher

education: Critical perspectives for change (pp. 1-11). Albany, NY: SUNY.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2002). Feminism in the academy: An introduction. In Kris Renn & Ana Martínez Alemán (Eds.) Encyclopedia of women in higher education (pp. 109-118). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2002). Feminist education. In Kevin Kinser & James Forest (Eds.)

Encyclopedia of higher education (pp. 254-258). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2000). Aren’t you satisfied yet?: Women faculty members’ interpretations of

their academic work. In Linda Hagedorn (Ed.) What contributes to job satisfaction among faculty and staff. Series: New Directions for Institutional Research, 27 (1): 21-32.

Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Townsend, Barbara, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2000). Introduction. In Women in

American higher education: A feminist perspective (Vol. 2) (pp. ix-xviii). Needham Heights, MA: Ginn. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Graue, Beth. (1999). Stumbling toward knowledge: Enacting qualitative

research. In Carl Grant (Ed.), Multicultural research: A reflective engagement with race, class, gender, and sexual orientation (pp. 228-239). London: Falmer.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1998). Feminist teaching in higher education. In John C. Smart (Ed.), Higher

education: Handbook of theory and research, 13 (pp. 274-303). Bronx, NY: Agathon. Scott, Stephen, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1998). Research, theory, and the practice of witnessing. In

John Smyth (Ed.) Critical pedagogy networker, 11 (3): 1-7. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1998). Conceptualizing truth in teaching and learning: Implications of truth-

seeking for feminist practice. In Bat-Ami Bar On & Ann Ferguson (Eds.), Daring to be good: Essays in feminist ethico-politics (pp. 55-69). New York: Routledge.

Book Reviews & Other Publications Reinert, Leah, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2013). Teaching and learning social justice. American College

Personnel Association’s Council on Social Justice Education Blog. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2011). Editorial introduction. Feminist Formations, 23 (2): viii-xii. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010). Editorial introduction. Feminist Formations, 22 (1): vii-x. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2010). Editorial introduction. Feminist Formations, 22 (2): vii-xi. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca & Williamsen, Kaaren. (2009). Review of The gender gap in college: Maximizing the

developmental potential of women and men by Linda J. Sax. The Review of Higher Education, 32 (4): 554-556. Winters, Kelly, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2009). Review of How the university works: Higher education

and the low wage nation by Marc Bousquet. Education Review. http://edrev.asu.edu Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2009). Editorial introduction. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 21

(1): vii-x. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2008). Review of What’s liberal about the liberal arts? by Michael Bérubé.

Academe, 94 (4): 70-71.


Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (2008). Editorial introduction. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20

(1): vii-x. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2006). College women’s experiences: Complexities of class and context.

National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 18 (2): 223-226. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2005). Resiliency after the storm. Association for the Study of Higher Education

Newsletter: 1-2. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2005). Review of Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods by

Frances K. Stage and Kathleen Manning. New York: Brunner-Routledge. Review of Higher Education, 28 (3): 446-447.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2004). Balancing, blocking, or blending?: Creating family and professional

identities. On Campus with Women, 33 (2). Association of American Colleges and Universities. http://www.aacu.org/ocww/

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2004). Review of Teaching democracy: Unity and diversity in public life by Walter C.

Parker. Education Review. http://edrev.asu.edu Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2003). Review of Contradictions in women’s education: Traditionalism, careerism, and

community at a single-sex college by Barbara J. Bank with Harriet M. Yelon. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 34 (4): www.aaanet.org/cae/aeq/br/index.htm.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Ropers-Huilman, Brian. (2000). Free speech and sexual harassment: Something’s

not computing. Case Study in Frances Stage & Mike Dannells (Eds.) Linking theory to practice: Case studies for working with college students Vol. 2 (pp. 200-203). Ann Arbor, MI: Taylor & Francis.

Tashakkori, Abbas & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (2000). Methodological and conceptual issues in

research on gender and ethnicity: A review of Gender, culture and ethnicity: Current research about women and men. Contemporary Psychology, 45 (2): 170-174.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (1999). Feminist teaching and poststructural promise: Transforming teaching

and learning relationships. Proceedings from Re-organizing knowledge, Transforming institutions: Knowing, knowledge and the university in the 21st century. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Conrad, Clifton F. (1993). Qualitative research bibliography. In Clifton

Conrad, Anna Neumann, Jennifer Grant Haworth, & Patricia Scott (Eds.), Qualitative research in higher education: Experiencing alternative perspectives and approaches (pp. 661-689). Needham Heights, MA: Ginn.

In Process Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Winters, Kelly, & Hakkola, Leah. (under review). Embodied minds: College

women’s experience in and around the panopticon of higher education. Locher, Holley, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (in process). Wearing you down: The influence of racial

battle fatigue on academic freedom for faculty of color. In Roland Mitchell, Katrice Albert, Chaunda Allen, & Kenneth Fasching-Varner (Eds.) Racial battle fatigue.


Thomas-Card, Traci, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (in process). Students of color and LGBT

experiences. In Donald Mitchell (Ed.) Intersectionality in higher education. Gardner, Susan, Hart, Jeni, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Ward, Kelly, & Wolf-Wendel, Lisa. (in process).

Me-search: Reflective inquiry in qualitative research. Presentations – National and International Winters, Kelly T., Hakkola, Leah, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2013). Minding bodies: The

places, spaces, and technologies of surveillance in higher education. Association for the Study of Higher Education: St. Louis, MO.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (July, 2013). Women’s entry into male-dominated areas: The case of higher education.

Congresso USP de Controladoria e Contabilidade (University of Sao Paulo Congress of Controllership and Accountancy): Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Hakkola, Leah, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Williams, Rhiannon. (April, 2013). Academic leaders and

diversity discourses in higher education. Keeping Our Faculties of Color: Minneapolis, MN. Williams, Rhiannon, Lee, Amy, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Iverson, Susan, Miksch, Karen, Chang,

Mitch, & Shaw, Marta. (November, 2012). Shifting discourses of diversity and equity in higher education. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Las Vegas, NV.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Winters, Kelly, & Hakkola, Leah. (November, 2012). Embodied minds: Women’s body image and educational experience. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Las Vegas, NV.

Allan, Elizabeth, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Iverson, Susan V., Mitchell, Roland, Hernandez, Susana,

Gildersleeve, Ryan Evely, Swain, Stuart, & Hallen, Lisa. (November, 2012). Policy discourse analysis. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Las Vegas, NV.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, King, Jean, Hakkola, Leah, & Shaw, Marta. (October, 2012). Defining and

measuring quality in graduate education for the 21st century. American Evaluation Association: Minneapolis, MN.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Martínez Alemán, Ana, Ward, Kelly, & Morphew, Christopher. (November,

2011). Research to practice for academic leaders: A focus on the department chair. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Charlotte, NC.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Winters, Kelly, Clegorne, Nik, Shajahan, Riyad, & Osei-Kofi, Nana.

(October, 2011). Disrupting norms of academic knowledge: Postsecondary education and curriculum theory. Bergamo Conference of Curriculum Theory.

Allan, Elizabeth, Iverson, Susan, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (October, 2011). Provoking Dialogue

Series: Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives. Bergamo Conference of Curriculum Theory: Dayton, OH.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2010). Reflections on teaching and reiterative thinking. Association for

the Study of Higher Education: Indianapolis, IN.


Winters, Kelly, Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Enke, Kathryn. (November, 2010). Interpreting retold lives: Intersectional approaches and the complexities of understanding the experiences of Catholic women’s college students. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Indianapolis, IN.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2010). Teaching as an act of social justice: Stories of whiteness in the

academy. Association for the Study of Higher Education: Indianapolis, IN. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2010). Feminist publishing. National Women’s Studies Association.

Denver, CO. Winters, Kelly, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2010). Imagining intersectional understandings and

the spaces-in-between. National Women’s Studies Association. Denver, CO. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2009). Feminist publishing. National Women’s Studies Association.

Atlanta, GA. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Winters, Kelly, & Enke, Kathryn. (November, 2009). The invisibility of whiteness:

White college women (dis)engaging race. National Women’s Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. Enke, Kathryn A.E., Winters, Kelly, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2009). Enacting and

resisting dominant narratives: Catholic women’s college students’ expectations for future work and family balance. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Vancouver, BC.

Enke, Kathryn A.E., & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2009). Defining success: Perspectives from

students at Catholic women’s colleges. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Vancouver, BC. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Winters, Kelly. (June, 2009). Feminist methodology in higher education: Enhancing

the field through gendered understanding. Midwest Qualitative Research Conference. St. Paul, MN. Watson, Jesse S., Loftin, Jennifer, McIntosh, David, Reason, Robert, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca.

(November, 2008). White researchers conducting critical white research. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Jacksonville, FL.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, Enke, Kathryn, & Chien, Claire. (November, 2008). Catholic women’s college

students’ constructions of identity: The influence of faculty and staff on students’ personal and professional self-understanding. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Jacksonville, FL.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (June, 2008). Resisting discrimination in academe. National Women’s Studies

Association Conference: Cincinnati, OH. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (June, 2008). Reflections on editing a special issue of the National Women’s Studies

Association Journal: Processes and Perspectives. National Women’s Studies Association Conference: Cincinnati, OH.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 2007). Re/constructing higher education: Feminist poststructural perspectives

and policy analysis. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Louisville, KY. Daly, Brenda, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 2007). Publishing feminist scholarship: The National Women’s

Studies Association Journal. National Women’s Studies Association. St. Charles, IL.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 2006). Women faculty and the dance of identities: Constructing self and privilege within community. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Anaheim, CA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 2006). Taking my place at the table: A gendered analysis of the motivations of

student change agents. National Women’s Studies Association. Oakland, CA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & McCoy, Dorian. (April, 2006). Critic and conscience of the university?: The functions

of student change agents within universities. American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA.

Fruge, Cheryl, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2006). Epistemological congruency: Effects of learning differences

among college students and faculty. American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Bendily, Erin. (November, 2005). Changing their minds: The civic effects of

involvement on college students. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Philadelphia, PA. Juban, Rusty, Wallace, Dawn, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Yeargin, John. (October, 2005). Sexual

harassment of students in higher education. Allied Academies International Conference. Las Vegas, NV.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, McCoy, Dorian, & Lott, Joe. (November, 2004). Civic engagement in United States

postsecondary institutions: Past and future roles. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Kansas City, MO.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Palmer, Betsy. (November, 2004). Civic and feminist education: Bridging parallel

approaches to teaching and learning. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Kansas City, MO. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Butler, Ladwawn, Duffourc, Danielle, Rester, Carolyn, & Simone, Joe. (April,

2004). Interpreting diversity: College students’ understanding of diversity efforts in higher education. American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (February, 2004). Diversity in higher education. Louisiana State University

Agricultural Center’s Diversity Conference. Baton Rouge, LA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (September, 2003). Student activists as democratic citizens: Illuminating tensions in U.S.

higher education. University of Auckland College of Education. Auckland, New Zealand. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Vlasnik, Amber, Bourg, Kayla, Juge, George, & Bradley, Kristen. (June, 2003).

Southern discomforts in a university setting: Women’s center staff working through gender conflicts. National Women’s Studies Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Carwile, Laura, & Lee, Crystal. (April, 2003). Student activists in higher education:

Exploring the relationships between perceptions of culture and change strategies. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Carwile, Laura, & Barnett, Kathy. (November, 2002). Working the system:

Communication processes of student activists and higher education administrators. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Sacramento, CA.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2002). Negotiating identities and making change: Feminist faculty in higher education. American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2001). Feminist teaching in theory and practice. Invited Presentation for University

of Washington Conference on Women in Higher Education. Seattle, WA. Palmer, Betsy, Major, Claire, Ortiz, Anna, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2001). The scholarship of

teaching: An interactive symposium on the emerging practice of junior faculty. American Educational Research Association. Seattle, WA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2000). Evolutions of self and research: Working knowledge while composing a life.

Presented on an invited panel with Glazer-Raymo, Judith, Hagedorn, Linda, Hurtado, Sylvia, & Johnsrud, Linda: Women faculty as knowledge workers: Feminist perspectives. American Educational Research Association. New Orleans, LA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 2000). Feminist faculty in higher education: Optimistic imaginings for our future.

Women's lives, women's voices, women's solutions: Shaping a national agenda for women in higher education. St. Paul, MN.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Scott, Stephen. (November, 1999). A gendered analysis of the path to the

professoriate: Student-faculty relationships in higher education doctoral programs. Association for the Study of Higher Education. San Antonio, TX.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 1999). Job satisfaction for women and feminist faculty: Exploring alternative

indicators. Association for the Study of Higher Education. San Antonio, TX. Abel, Ron, Wallace, Dawn, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 1999). Working in the margins: A study

of university professionals serving marginalized students. Association for the Study of Higher Education. San Antonio, TX.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Hensley, Laura, & Smith, Sondra. (October, 1999). Counselor education and the

principles of feminist teaching. Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. New Orleans, LA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (September, 1999). Feminist teaching and poststructural promise: Transforming teaching

and learning relationships. Re-organizing knowledge, Trans-forming institutions: Knowing, knowledge and the university in the 21st century. Amherst, MA.

Ortiz, Anna, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Shaw, Kate, Cheng, Mitchell, & Rhoads, Robert. (November,

1998). Teaching diversity in higher education. Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting. Miami, FL.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (October, 1998). Feminist leadership in higher education: A textual analysis of power

and resistance. Research on Women in Education. East Lansing, MI. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 1998). Activism and advocacy: Feminist teaching for higher education leaders.

Presented in a symposium with Kimmich, Allison, May, Vivian, & Erikson, Sheila: Teaching and activism, teaching as activism: Feminist pedagogy and the Women’s Studies classroom. National Women’s Studies Association. Oswego, NY.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky & Wallace, Dawn. (April, 1998). Interrogating imposition in feminist education. Presented in a symposium with Betsy Palmer, Jennifer Grant Haworth, Lynn Freeman, & Jeanne Brady: Teaching and learning in everyday life: Feminist engagements within higher education. American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 1998). Feminist leaders in higher education: A textual analysis of power and

resistance. American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 1998). “Potent” practices in educational leadership: Democratic education and

interlocking oppressions. Presented in a symposium with Duncan, P. Kay, Brunner, Cryss, Carr, Carolyn, & Jackson, Barbara: Caring and sharing power: Potent pedagogical practices. (Invited Address: SIG on Teaching in Educational Administration.) American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky & Costner, Stefanie. (April, 1998). Participation and progress: Improving the climate

for women of color in college. American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Costner, Stefanie, Shaw, Luria, Nelson-Brown, Thresa, & Morrison, Toni.

(November, 1997). Women of color in college: Thinking about the diversity within. Association for the Study of Higher Education. Albuquerque, NM.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 1997). Advocacy education: Intersections as the other in teaching/research.

Reclaiming voice: Ethnographic inquiry and qualitative research in a postmodern age. Los Angeles, CA.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1997). Strategies of disruption: Teaching and learning in everyday life. American

Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1997). Scholarship on the other side: Power and caring as teacher and student.

Presented in a symposium with Duncan, P. Kay, Brunner, C. Cryss, Carr, Carolyn, and Jackson, Barbara: The prospect of “inclusive pedagogy” for reinventing leadership preparation programs. American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1997). Hard data. Presented in a symposium with Brunner, C. Cryss,

Duncan, P. Kay, Smithmier, Angela, Cross, Beverly E., & Reitzug, Ulrich C.: Invasive inquiry: Confessions of qualitative researchers (A trilogy of morality plays). American Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1997). Witnessing: Critical inquiry in a poststructural world. American

Educational Research Association. Chicago, IL. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 1996). (Re)framing resistance: Deconstructing feminist teaching discourse in higher

education. National Women’s Studies Association. Saratoga Springs, NY. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Smithmier, Angela. (April, 1996). Systems change from outside in: Realizing

collective understandings of interagency collaboration. American Educational Research Association. New York.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 1995). Responsive work: Student impact on the construction of teaching.

Association for the Study of Higher Education. Orlando, FL.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Capper, Colleen. (October, 1995). Critical questions of community-based

interagency service efforts: A conceptual framework for teaching and research. University Council for Educational Administration. Salt Lake City, UT.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (October, 1995). What determines success?: A poststructural analysis of evaluation processes

in interagency collaboration. University Council for Educational Administration. Salt Lake City, UT. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (June, 1995). Reiterative work: Feminist teaching in the academy. National Women's

Studies Association. Norman, OK. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 1995). Philosophies, strategies and complexities of feminist teaching. American

Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA. Presentations/Invited Talks - Regional and Local Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (October, 2013). Sustainability of Higher Education. Conference sponsored by

the University of Minnesota’s Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA). Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & Vavrus, Frances. (April, 2013). Gender in education: International policy

perspectives. Humphrey Institute of Public Policy Class on Gender in Public Policy. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (March, 2013). Women, leadership, and organizational change. Women’s Leadership

Institute. University of Minnesota. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2012). Gender diversity and sexual orientation in education. Great

Lessons for Teacher Education. University of Minnesota. Lee, Amy, & Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (May, 2012). Beyond “add and stir”: Engaging diversity in college

classrooms. School of Public Health Symposium. University of Minnesota. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, & DeJaeghere, Joan. (April, 2012). Gender in education. Humphrey Institute of

Public Policy Class on Gender in Public Policy. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (April, 2012). Feminist knowing and knowledge. University of Minnesota Doctoral

Educational Inquiry Class. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (January, 2012). United States higher education: An introduction and critical issues.

University of Minnesota Russian International Education Administrators Program. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (November, 2011). Strengthening graduate education through ongoing evaluation:

Challenges and opportunities. University of Minnesota Graduate Education Workshop. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (October, 2011). Challenges and resources for new chairs. University of Minnesota

New Chairs Forum. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (April, 2011). Keynote address: All I really need to know I learned in graduate

school. University of Minnesota Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Student Research Conference.


Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (April, 2011). Feminist knowing and knowledge. University of Minnesota Doctoral Educational Inquiry Class.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (April, 2010). Everyday practices toward everyday change: Working responsively and

reiteratively through whiteness. University of Minnesota Diversity as Everybody’s Everyday Work.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (March, 2010). Feminist publishing. Bowling Green State University Women’s & Gender Studies/American Culture Studies Programs.

Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (March, 2010). Feminist and higher education publishing. University of Minnesota

Postsecondary Education Research Institute. Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca. (February, 2010). Feminist publishing. University of Minnesota Gender,

Women’s, & Sexuality Studies Graduate Student Colloquium. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Asher, Nina, & Lima Marybeth. (March, 2007). Feminist teaching. Louisiana State

University Faculty Development Series. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (September, 2006). Race and gender in college and life. Louisiana State University

Series for First Year Students. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (September, 2006). Feminism@LSU. Louisiana State University Women’s

Center. Vlasnik, Amber, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, & Albert, Katrice. (September, 2005). Women: Seeking equity in

higher education. Women’s Week Celebration. Baton Rouge, LA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, McCoy, Dorian, & Lott, Joe. (April, 2005). Civic engagement in United States

postsecondary institutions: Past and future roles. Louisiana State University Teaching in Higher Education Forum.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2005). Women in higher education: Because equity is still an issue. American

Association of University Women Louisiana State Convention. Baton Rouge, LA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 2003). Gendered futures in higher education. Louisiana State University

Women’s Center. Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Vlasnik, Amber, & Bourg, Kayla. (September, 2002). Feminism in higher

education. Louisiana State University Women’s Center. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (July, 2002). Women in higher education. American Association of University

Women (Baton Rouge Chapter). Shackelford, Monisa, & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (April, 2001). Walking the tenure tight rope: Gendered

impression management in higher education. Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1999). Scholarship on the other side: Making the transition from graduate

student to college professor. Louisiana State University Graduate Women’s Consortium.


Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1999). Feminism: A dirty word or a useful tool? You decide! Louisiana State University Residential Life Faculty Lecture Series.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 1998). Issues in student affairs: Working together toward a multicultural

environment. Louisiana State University Student Services Professional Development Program. Scott, Stephen & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1998). An assessment of gender and the research

assistantship: Implications for higher education programs. Louisiana Educational Research Association. Ropers-Huilman, Becky & Bateman, Mark. (December, 1996). Theories of student development. Louisiana

State University Student Development Discussion Group. Munro, Petra & Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (November, 1996). Power in the classroom: A feminist perspective.

Louisiana State University Graduate Women’s Consortium. Lobes, Carol, Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Smith, Pat, & Stonecipher, Chuck. (April, 1995). Interagency

collaboration. Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect. Madison, WI. Ropers-Huilman, Becky. (March, 1995). Negotiating knowledge and knowing: Philosophies of teaching and

learning in feminist classrooms. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Graduate Student Symposium.

Ropers-Huilman, Becky, Smithmier, Angela, & Hanson, Sandi. (March, 1995). Insights, blind spots, and

lessons learned: Working with middle school students as researchers. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education Graduate Student Symposium.

Graduate Advising Doctoral Dissertations University of Minnesota Rand, Sarah. (2014). How do formal women’s networks affect members’ career advancement and the success of their

sponsoring organization? Lepkowski, Chris. (2014). Gender, performativity, and leadership: Department chairs in research universities. O’Brien, Nancy. (2013). Intercultural relations: Re-visioning an interdisciplinary field through the global lens of women

(co-advised with Michael Paige). Phillips, Gareth. (2013). A comparative study of international student engagement and success based on race/ethnicity,

gender, and institutional type (co-advised with Ernest Davenport). Locher, Holley. (2013). Academic freedom for whom?: Experiences and perceptions of faculty of color. Mitchell, Donald. (2012). Are they truly divine?: A grounded theory of the influences of Black Greek-lettered

organizations on the persistence of African Americans at predominantly White institutions. [Recipient of The Center for the Study of the College Fraternity’s Richard McKaig Outstanding Doctoral Research Award; Honorable Mention from The American Association of Blacks in Higher Education]


Enke, Kathryn Enger. (2011). Positionality and enacted leadership: Women in senior leadership positions in liberal arts colleges.

Holland, Ann. (2010). The place of race in cultural nursing education: The experience of White BSN nursing faculty. Louisiana State University Dancy, T. Elon. (2007). Manhood constructions among engaged African American male collegians: Influences,

experiences, and contexts. [Recognized for Excellence by the American Educational Research Association - Division J]

Fruge, Cheryl. (2007). Epistemological congruency in community college classrooms: Effects of epistemological beliefs on

students’ experience. Lee, Crystal. (2007). Hope for today and tomorrow: Identity construction, power, and persistence of community college

women who are first in their families to attend college. Junek, Ashley. (2007). Going with the flow?: The medical school pipeline and advising premedical African American

students on predominantly White campuses. Pourciau, Todd. (2006). Leadership for scholarly excellence: A qualitative examination of department chair facilitation

methods to promote research productivity in pre-tenure biological sciences faculty. McCoy, Dorian. (2006). Entering the academy: Exploring the socialization experiences of African American male

faculty. Warren, Kim Andrepont. (2005). Theory and practice in Student Support Services: The relationship between advisor

and student perceptions of Student Support Services and development and prescriptive theory. Aaron, Laura Carwile. (2005). Responsibilities and leadership styles of radiological technology program directors:

Implications for leadership development. Lott, Joe. (2005). Civic orientation predictors of Black students: An exploratory study (co-advised with Christine

Distefano). [Recognized for Excellence by the American Educational Research Association: Div. J] Brackin, Laura Schexnayder. (2005). Self-determination of students with disabilities in postsecondary education. Smothers, Roderick. (2004). The influence of state merit-based aid on access and educational experiences: An

exploration of the Louisiana Tuition Opportunity Program for Students. Becks, Germaine. (2004). African American women administrators in higher education administration: Exploring the

challenges and experiences at public colleges and universities. Alexander, Angela. (2004). A qualitative exploration of students' experiences with tutorial learning. Hill, Jacqueline. (2004). The role of mentoring in the development of African American nurse leaders (co-advised with

Marietta Del Favero). Stubblefield, Luria. (2004). Students with a GED in four-year institutions: The voices of persisters.


Morrison, Tonetta Beloney. (2003). Your blues ain’t like mine: Exploring the promotion and tenure process of African American female professors at select, predominantly white, research universities in the south.

Callais, Mari Ann. (2002). Sorority rituals: Rites of passages and their impact on contemporary sorority women. Sanders, Christy. (2001). Service learning: Administrators’ goals at a Research I university. Tradewell, Golden. (2001). An exploratory case study of the social interactions among baccalaureate nursing students in a

cooperative group learning environment. Martin, Catherine. (2000). The relationships between on-campus interactions and retention of African American students

at a predominantly White institution. Wallace, Dawn. (2000). Critical connections: Perspectives on meaningful mentoring relationships between women doctoral

students and dissertation chairs. Joubert-Thompson, Rose Mary. (2000). Shattering the barriers: Achieving African American students at

predominantly white institutions and their reasons for success. Scott, Stephen. (1999). A critical analysis of gender and the role of the research assistantship in development of higher

education faculty. Nelson-Brown, Thresa. (1998). Student loan procurement: Exploring its linkages to leadership, diligence, and post-

collegiate behaviors (co-advised with Kofi Lomotey). Masters Advisees 2014: April Coon 2013: Shannon Hofmann Charles Helm 2012: Nichole Sorenson Elizabeth Schwartz Hans Peterson

Terry Paape Doug Haltinner Emily Ehlinger 2011: Emelee Volden Margaret Rodgers 2010: Jess Etten Nicole Clements 2009: Kathryn Enger Enke 2006: David Dial (LSU) 2005: Amber Vlasnik (LSU) Leadership/Service/Consulting National/International University of Sao Paulo: Brazil; July, 2013 - 2014 Develop colloquium on gender and education offered at the University of Sao Paulo. Consult with academic staff and administrators about possible programmatic development, especially related to graduate education and gender. Offer invited lecture on women’s underrepresentation in education and other organizations at Congresso USP de Controladoria e Contabilidade (University of Sao Paulo Congress of Controllership and Accountancy). Visit led to development of the international research group GENERA: Núcleo FEA de Pesquisa em GENero E RAca (FEA Group in Research in Gender and Race.) Served as Track Coordinator with Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova for the Gender, Race, & Sexuality Track for the July, 2014 Congress of USP Controllership and Accounting.


Step-Up Zambia: Zambia; June, 2013 USAID-funded visit to Step-Up Zambia and Charles Lwanga College of Education in Monse to consult regarding data collection and analysis related to gender and policy dimensions of educational improvement project; facilitate workshop for teacher educators and teachers in training; provide guidelines for gender analysis; and collaboratively develop policy briefs for policy makers at the local, district, provincial, and national levels outlining policy problems, research design, key findings, and policy recommendations as a result of data analysis at the workshop. Guangzhou University: China; May, 2011 Present Critical issues in United States higher education at the International Higher Education Forum on Innovation and Development for Higher Education in Development Countries. Consult with and explore possibilities for partnerships with the Research Institute for Higher Education of Guangzhou University. University of Auckland: New Zealand; Fall Semester, 2003 Conduct research with students, academic staff, and administrators focused on the motivating and inhibiting factors associated with choices of student change agents within university contexts. Present Student activists as democratic citizens: Illuminating tensions in U.S. higher education at the University of Auckland College of Education. Association for the Study of Higher Education • Editorial Advisory Board Member/Reviewer, The Review of Higher Education: 2007-Present • Conference Proposal Reviewer: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2012, 2013 • Member, Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award Committee: 1998, 2011, 2012 • Discussant, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011 • Advisory Board Member & Reviewer, ASHE Monograph Series: 2006-2009 • Advisory Board Member, ASHE Reader College and University Curriculum: Placing Learning at the

Epicenter of Courses, Programs, and Institutions: 2007 • Member, Publications Committee: 2003-2006 • Program Committee Member (Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum): 2003-2004 • Reviewer, Review of Higher Education: 2000, 2001, 2002 • Advisory Board Member, ASHE Reader Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: 1999-2001 • Advisory Board Member, ASHE Reader Qualitative Research in Higher Education: 2000 • Program Committee Member (Poster Sessions): 1997-1998 American Educational Research Association (Division J: Postsecondary Education) • Section Co-Chair 2014 (Society, Culture, and Change) for National Conference: 2013-2014 • Member, Emerging Scholars Workshop Planning Committee: 2011 • Member, Dissertation of the Year Award Committee: 2007, 2008 • Mentor, SAGE (Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity): 2006 • Reviewer: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006 • Discussant: 1998, 2000, 2004 • Vice Co-Chair (Faculty and Curriculum) for National Conference: 1999-2000 • Editor, Division J Newsletter The PEN: 1998-2000 • Session Chair: 1997


National Women’s Studies Association • Member, Governing Council: 2007-2009 • Member, National Conference Committee: 2006-2007 • Reviewer, National Women’s Studies Association Journal: 2003, 2006, 2007 • Reviewer, National Women’s Studies Association: 2004 Other Scholarly Contributions • Advisory Board Member, Feminist Formations: 2013-Present • Advisory Board Member, College Student Affairs Journal: 2012-2014 • Editorial Board Member, Feminist Formations: 2011-2013 • External Reviewer, Promotion and Tenure Cases (14): 2003-2013 • Co-Instructor (with Kimberly Griffin) of Organizational Change for Diversity and Equity for Big 10

Higher Education Institute, University of Iowa: 2012 • Editor, Feminist Formations (formerly NWSA Journal): 2007-2011 • Editorial Board Member, Innovative Higher Education: 2005-2011 • Panel Member, American Association of University Women Educational Foundation: 2008, 2009 • Program Review Consultant, Manhattanville College’s Proposal to Offer a New Ed.D.: 2007 • Member, Editorial Board, Advancing Women in Leadership On-line Journal: 1998-2005 • Facilitator and Speaker, Louisiana Women Leaders Conference: 2005 • Article Manuscript Reviewer, Journal about Women in Higher Education (3), International Journal of

Leadership in Education (5), Educational Researcher (2), Journal of Higher Education (8), Innovative Higher Education (10), Research in Higher Education, Feminism & Psychology, Journal of School Leadership (2), Journal of General Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Policy, Scholar-Practitioner Quarterly (2), American Educational Research Journal, Review of Educational Research, Urban Education (2)

• Book Manuscript/Proposal Reviewer, Johns Hopkins University Press, Stylus, Routledge (3), Vanderbilt University Press, Oxford University Press, State University of New York Press (2), Teachers College Press

• Conference Proposal Reviewer, University Council for Educational Administration, AERA, Division G, Social Context of Education, AERA SIG: Research on Women in Education (3).

University University of Minnesota • Chair (2014-2015), Vice Chair (2013-2014) & Member (2012-2013), Faculty Consultative Committee. This

committee serves as the primary executive body for the faculty senate, consulting regularly with senior leaders at the university to facilitate shared governance of the university.

• Member, Women’s Faculty Cabinet: 2011-2013 • Member, Graduate Education Review Team: 2011-2013 • Member, Keeping Our Faculties V Planning Committee: 2008, 2009-2010, 2012-2013 • Member, Provisional Graduate Education Council: 2011 • Advisory Board Member, Institute for Diversity, Equity, and Advocacy: 2009-2010 • Member, University Senate Faculty Affairs Committee: 2009-2010 • Member, Skills & Competencies of Emerging Professionals Committee: 2009-2010 • Member, Work Group on Graduate Education: Academic Issues: 2009-2010 • Member, President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award Review Panel: 2009 • Faculty Partner, UGo! Program, College of Education and Human Development: 2008-2009 • Member, Equity and Diversity Research Institute Planning Group: 2007-2008


Louisiana State University • Member, Program Review Board for Department of Curriculum & Instruction: 2006 • Participant, Communication Across the Curriculum Faculty Institute: 2006 • Discussant, Feminist Teaching Panel, English Graduate Student Association Conference: 2006 • Member, Internal Advisory Board, LA STEM Program: 2005-2006 • Member, Council on Research: Social Sciences: 2004-2006 • Panelist, Bridging Women’s History Month and Black History Month: 2005 • Member, Service Learning Faculty Advisory Council (Grants Committee: 2003): 2002-2005 • Reviewer, Council on Research Summer Stipend Proposals: 2004 • Member, NCAA Equity, Welfare and Sportsmanship Subcommittee: 2003-2004 • Member, Commission on the Status of Women: 2002-2004 • Advisor, Women Organizing Women: 2002, 2004 • Advisory Board Member, Women’s Center: 1999-2000; 2002-2004 • Member, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Awards Committee: 2003 • Faculty Liaison, Women’s Center and Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty: 2002-2003 • Member, Women’s and Gender Studies Awards Committee: 2002-2003 • Chair, Women’s Center Director Search Committee: 2002 • Member, Commission on Campus Diversity: 2001-2002 • Member, University Distinguished Faculty Selection Committee: 2000 • Member, Ad Hoc Committee for Women’s and Gender Studies Research Center: 2000 • Member, Provost’s Seminar on Diversity Steering Committee: 2000 • Chair, Judges for Poster Presentations, Graduate Student Conference: 2000 • Coordinating Council Member, Women’s and Gender Studies: 1999-2000 • Faculty Alternate, Committee on Student Conduct: 1999-2000 • Faculty Friend, Residential Life Program with Herget Hall: 1997-2000 • Member, Program Committee, Women’s and Gender Studies: 1996-1998 • Graduate Dean’s Representative, Speech Communication: 1997 • Panelist, Student Services Development Session: 1997 • Mentor, Nubian Pre-Doctoral Academy: 1997 Prior University Service • Member, Director of Student Financial Services Search Committee, University of Wisconsin: 1994 • Member, Resident Advisor Selection Committee, Mankato State University: 1992 • Member, Residence Education Committee, Mankato State University: 1991-1992 Department and College University of Minnesota • Coordinator, Twin Cities Higher Education Doctoral Cohort: 2007-2010 • Member, Faculty Merit Review Committee: 2010 • Member, Department Leadership Team: 2008-2010 • Coordinator, Higher Education Program: 2008-2010 • Member, Mentoring Committee for David Weerts: 2008-2010 • Member, College Promotion and Tenure Committee: 2008-2010


• Chair, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee for Frances Vavrus: 2008 • Member, Higher Education Search Committee: 2007-2008 • Member, Promotion and Tenure Review Committee for Andrew Furco: 2007 Louisiana State University

• Coordinator, Higher Education Program Area: 2000-2007 • Member, Merit Raise Committee: 2004-2005 • Chair, Faculty Search Committee: 2001, 2005 • Member, Faculty Search Committees: 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, Chair Search: 1998 • Chair and Member, Core Curriculum Implementation Committee: 1998-2000 • Member, Admissions and Retention Committee: 1996-2000 • Member, Distinguished Dissertation Award Committee: 1998 • Member, Courses and Curriculum Committee: 1997-1999 • Faculty Advisor, Graduate Student Group: 1996-1997 University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Member, Higher Education Committee: 1993-1996 • Board Member, Educational Administration Student Association: 1993-1995 • Member, Educational Administration Program Committee: 1993-1994 Primary Professional Affiliations American Educational Research Association Association for the Study of Higher Education National Women’s Studies Association

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