Personal website: http://edst.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/roman/index.html

Courses currently taught

EDST 565F - Disability, Representation and Social Justice in Education Social Issues in Education

EDST 314 - Social Issues in Education

EDST 577 - The Social Context of Educational Policy, with a cultural studies and post-colonial emphasis

Edst 428 - Social Foundations of Education--the Diversity Cohort in critical multiculturalism, antiracism, and anti-colonial pedagogy

Research titles

1) In submission/currently proposed:

‘Burden of Imperfection’: Querying British Columbia’s Participation in ‘the Eugenic Atlantic’ (1878-1996)

2) Past Completed Research Projects:

Leslie's research program focuses on the ways particular youth and state officials negotiate the contested meanings of social and juridical citizenship in different official policy, popular cultural and national contexts.

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

• Roman, Leslie G. (June. 2004a). “States of Insecurity: Cold War Legacies, Globalization and its Discontents,” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 25(2), pp. 231-259.

• Roman, Leslie G. ( December, 2003a). “Education and the Contested Meanings of ‘Global Citizenship,’” Journal of Educational Change (Special Issue, Guest Edited by Fazal Rizvi), vol. 4(3), pp.269-293.

• Roman, Leslie G. (March/April 2003b). “Prelude and Temptation: Arresting a Vitriolic and Defamatory Controversy,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 16(2), pp. 149-156.

• Roman, L.G. (2003). Invited Guest Editor for Special Issue, “Conditions, Contexts, and Controversies of Truth-making: Rigoberta Menchú and the Perils of Everyday Witnessing”, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 16(3) pp. 275-469, all inclusive.

• Roman, Leslie G. (May/June 2003d). “Ghostly Evidence: Official and Structural Registers of Voice, Veracity, Avarice, and Violence in the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy,” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, vol. 16(3), pp. 307-362.

• Roman, L.G. (forthcoming, 2004/5). Transgressive Knowledge, Contested Politics: Relational Studies in Feminist Theory and Pedagogy. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

• Roman, Leslie. G. and G. Pratt (2000). Special Issue Editorial Introduction, “The University as/in Contested Space,” Anglistica, vol. 4(1). Summer 2000:21-24. Our introduction appears in the Special Issue of Anglistica, “Transitions: Transnational Space and Universities in Transition.” Anglistica is an Italian cultural studies journal with an international and interdisciplinary readership, published by the Instituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples, Italy. I was the principle investigator, along with several co-investigators, for a three year interdisciplinary Hampton grant that gave rise to the international conference, “The University as/in Contested Space,” held at UBC in April 30-May 1, 1998 with three leading feminist scholars, as well as a subsequent interdisciplinary dialog with them published in this Special Issue of Anglistica, vol. 4(1). Summer 2000:21-24ISSN: 0391-5956. Web internet address: http://www.iuo.it/dipllo./pubblicazioni/r_a/anglistica/Home.htm

• Roman, L.G. and collectively authored with the members of "The Discipline and Place Collective," (2000) and with support from the University of British Columbia Hampton Fund, designed to promote interdiscplinary research. (“The Discipline and Place Collective” is an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the University of British Columbia, including: Richard Cavell (English); Gillian Creese (Anthropology and Sociology); Sneja Gunew (English); Penny Gurstein (Planning); Becki Ross (Anthropology and Sociology); Geraldine Pratt (Geography); (Rose Marie San Juan (Fine Arts); Patricia Vertinsky (Educational Studies). “The Limits of Liberalism: A Conversation with Rey Chow, Lisa Lowe and Renata Salecl.” Anglistica, vol. 4(1): 91-118. Summer 2000. Anglistica is an Italian cultural studies journal with an international and interdisciplinary readership, published by the Instituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples, Italy. ISSN: 03915956.
  Web internet address: http://www.iuo.it/dipllo./pubblicazioni/r_a/anglistica/Home.htm

• Roman, L. G. and collectively authored with the members of "The Discipline and Place Collective," with support from the University of British Columbia Hampton Fund, designed to promote interdiscplinary research. (October 1997). "Moving Spaces/Firm Groundings: An Interview with Rey Chow". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol. 15: 2-25.

Other well known work of hers includes:

• Roman, L. G. (Winter 1996)."Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Transgression, Display, and Repression." Educational Theory. 46(1): 1-22 and reprinted with permission by the Centre for Educational and Social Change, Faculty of Education, Deakin University: Victoria, Geelong, Australia, pp. 270-282.

• Roman, L. G. (1993). “White is a Color!: White Defensiveness, Postmodernism and Anti-racist Pedagogy. (pp. 279-378). In Cameron McCarthy and Warren Chrichlow (Eds.). Race, Identity, and Representation in Education. New York: Routledge.

• Roman, L. G. (1993a). “Double Exposure: The Politics of Feminist Materialist Ethnography,” Educational Theory, 43(3): 279-308.

• Roman, L. G. (1996). Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Transgression, Display and Repression. (Winter 1996a)."Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Transgression, Display, and Repression." Educational Theory. 46(1): 1-22 and reprinted with permission by the Centre for Educational and Social Change, Faculty of Education, Deakin University: Victoria, Geelong, Australia, pp. 270-282. A benchmark work in youth policy studies, requests to reprint the article have been numerous internationally.