Joseph Nelson, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Boys’ &
Girls’ Lives University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Mr.
Nelson is a Ph.D candidate in Urban Education at The Graduate Center of
the City University of New York. He holds a BA in Sociology from Loyola
University, Chicago. He previously worked as a Research Consultant at New York
University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education. Originally from
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Nelson taught first-grade in a single-gender
classroom for 2-years.
The focus of Mr. Nelson’s lecture will be the
construction of masculinity at a single-sex middle school for African-American
boys in New York City.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Jubilee Hall 112
Mellie Torres, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow at New York University’s Metropolitan
Center for Urban Education. Dr. Mellie Torres received her Ph.D. in
Teaching and Learning, from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and
Human Development at New York University, a Masters in Public Policy at the
University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Seton Hall
University. Prior to her doctoral studies, Torres was a high school mathematics teacher in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Dr.Torres has received numerous fellowships and honors,
including the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship, the Mainzer
Fellowship in Gender Studies, the Fredrick Douglass Summer Teaching Fellow, and
the Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education.
Ms. Nellie's research explores the relationship between the multiple and intersecting social identities (race/ethnicity, class, and gender) of Latino male students and their academic identities.
Ms. Nellie's research explores the relationship between the multiple and intersecting social identities (race/ethnicity, class, and gender) of Latino male students and their academic identities.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Jubilee Hall Auditorium
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