Dr. Amira Proweller received her Ph.D. in the Social Foundations of Education from the State University of New York – Buffalo. Dr. Proweller is the author of Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper-Middle Class Youth Culture. Her research interests and publications have focused on the cultural politics of schooling, youth culture and identity formation, educational policy, service-learning in higher education, and youth participatory action research.
Education
- PhD State University of New York-- Buffalo
- MA University of Wisconsin-- Madison
- BA Vassar College
Courses Taught
- SCU 207 Social and Historical Issues in Education
- SCG 408 Education and Social Order
- SCG 409 Reflective Seminar: Sociology of Education
- SCG 410 Introduction to Research: Purposes, Issues and Methodologies
- SCG 604 Proseminar: Identity in Education
- SCG 610 Introduction to Research Methods
- SCG 635 Advanced Qualitative Research Methodologies
- SCG 745 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (I)
- SCG 765 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (II)
Research Interests
Qualitative Research Methodology; Sociology of Education; Educational Policy; School Reform; Gender/Sexuality Studies in Education; Critical Youth Studies