Dolhinow, Rebecca E.
Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies
Women and Gender Studies
Biography:
Rebecca Dolhinow received her master of science degree in sociology from the London School of Economics and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in geography. Her research centers on activism, and she worked with immigrant activists in New Mexico and most recently conducted a multi-year ethnographic study of student activism in Southern California. Her current work integrates the research on spaces of student activism with the growing field of critical university studies as she documents the incursion of administrative reach on free speech and academic freedom in both the classroom and the student activist movement. She is currently working on a book about the enclosing of student activist spaces on campuses and the creation of alternative education commons to counter the impacts of the corporatization of higher education. Her research was published in the Australian Universities Review. Her book, "A Jumble of Needs: Women's Activism and Neoliberalism in the Colonias of the Southwest" was published in 2010 by the University of Minnesota Press.
Areas of Knowledge:
- Student activism
- Educational activism
- Neoliberal education
- Critical university studies
- The new Commons movement
Subject(s):
- Education -- Higher Ed
- Gender Studies
- Women's Studies
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