EDUCATION
12/87 Ph.D., Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Major: Educational Policy Studies.
Minors and Concentration: Sociology, Women's studies, Educational Policy, Curriculum Theory, Adult Education.
Doctoral Thesis: "Punk Femininity: The Formation of Young Women's Gender Identities and Class Relations Within the Extramural Curriculum of a Contemporary Subculture".
5/1980 M.S., Adult, Continuing and Vocational Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Thesis: The Women's Studies Program: A Case Study of the Political Survival of a Nontraditional Program within the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
5/1977 B.A., Political Science, University of Texas-Austin, with Honors and Special Honors.
RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS
Cultural Studies, Sociology of Education, Feminist and Postcolonial Theory, Antiracist and Critical Multicultural Pedagogy, Feminist Materialist Ethnography, Ethics in Qualitative Research, and Sociology of Youth Subcultures.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer 1991-Present, Associate Professor, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Duties have included teaching graduate seminars and undergraduate courses for the following Departments/Programs: Educational Studies, The Curriculum Centre, Teacher Education, and in the Faculty of Arts, Women's Studies. I have taught graduate seminars in antiracist/critical multicultural pedagogy for the Curriculum Centre (EDCI 572) and now for EDST, feminist pedagogy and theory (EDST 576-Women and Education) for EDST, qualitative research methods, for the Faculty of Education (EDUC 503), particularly all critical approaches to ethnography, most especially feminist and participatory research. I have taught sociology of education in the teacher education program (EDST 429) and an undergraduate course in Women's Studies on feminist methodologies (WMST 422). I have designed and taught an undergraduate fourth year course in WomenÕs Studies, "Gender and Popular Culture in Education (WMST 425). Promoted to Associate in July 1994.
Fall 1987-Spring 1991, Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Louisiana State University: Baton Rouge. Duties included teaching graduate courses in the sociology of education, qualitative research methods (principles and practice of critical ethnography), feminist theory and pedagogy, and the cultural analysis of youth subcultures; supervising masters and doctoral students.
Summer 1988, Visiting Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Duties included teaching a combined undergraduate and graduate course, "Education and Sex Role Socialization."
Summers 1983, 1984, 1986, Lecturer, Educational Policy Studies and Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Duties included teaching a combined undergraduate and graduate course, "Education and Sex Role Socialization."
Fall 1984 Lecturer, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Duties included teaching an undergraduate sociology of education course, "School and Society."
Fall 1979 and Spring 1980, Teaching Assistant, Women's Studies Program, University of Wisconsin- Spring 1980 Madison. Duties included leading discussions and grading student work in the undergraduate course, "Women and Our Bodies in Health and Disease."
(Course syllabi and teaching evaluations available.)
COMMUNITY ACTION, COALITION-BUILDING, COUNSELING, AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Spring 1992 Organizer/Feminist Researcher in support of CUPE (Canadian Union of Public Employees) 2950 and 116 as member of University of a labour activist and feminist group of faculty within University of British Columbia's Faculty Association in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Fall 1984-87 Community Educator/Writer and Organizer of the Media Subcommittee, Madison Sanctuary Committee, Madison, Wisconsin.
Fall 1981-Summer 1983 Community Educator, Political Literacy Project, Basic Choices, Madison, Wisconsin.
Fall 1980-Summer 1981 Site Coordinator, American Institute for Research, Boston, MA and Madison, WI.
Spring 1979- Summer 1981, Title IX Consultant, Wisconsin Public Schools, Madison, Wisconsin.
Summer 1977 Teacher/Counselor, Migrant Attrition Prevention Program, St. Edward's University,Austin, Texas.
Fall 1976-1977 Teacher, Athena Montessori School, Austin, Texas.
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books (Work in Progress)
Roman, Leslie G. (forthcoming, 2002). A Tenuous Sisterhood: Women in an American Punk Subculture. New York/Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.
Roman, Leslie G. (forthcoming, 2001. Trangressive Knowledge: Comparative Studies in Feminist Theory and Pedagogy. New York/Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield.
Edited Books
Roman, L. G. and Eyre, L. (Eds.). (1997). Dangerous Territories: Struggles for `Difference' and `Equality' in Education. New York/London: Routledge.
Roman, L. G. and Dworkin, D. (1993). Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge.
Roman, L. G. and Christian-Smith, L. (Eds.). (1988). Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture. London: Falmer Press. Awarded "Critics' Choice" by the American Educational Studies Association, Fall 1989.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Roman, L.G. and Pratt, G. (In Press). Special Issue Editorial Introduction, "The University as/in Contested Space", Anglistica, , vol. 4(1). Summer 2000. Anglistica is an Italian cultural studies journal with an international and interdisciplinary readership, published by the Instituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, Italy.
Roman, L.G. and collectively authored with the members of "The Discipline and Place Collective," (In Press) 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). (In Press). "The Limits of Liberalism: An Interview with Rey Chow, Lisa Lowe and Renata Salecl." Anglistica, vol. 4(1). Summer 2000. Anglistica is an Italian cultural studies journal with an international and interdisciplinary readership, published by the Instituto Universitario Orientale, in Naples, Italy.
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.
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 Deakin University: Victoria, Geelong, Australia, pp. 270-282.
Roman, L. G. (March/April 1993). "Raymond Williams's Unfinished Project: The Articulation of a Socially Transformative Critical Realism," Discourse: The Australian Journal of Educational Studies. 13 (2), March/April.
Roman, L. G. (1993). "Double Exposure: The Politics of Feminist Materialist Ethnography," Educational Theory, 43(3): 279-308.
Roman, L. G. and Apple, M. W. (1991). "Es El Naturalismo un del Positivismo? Los Enfoques Materialista Y Feminista de la Subjectividad en la Investigacion Ethnograficia," Educacion y Sociedad (Education and Society, refereed journal in Spain), 9 (1), Madrid (pp. 59-90). Translation of "Is Naturalism a Move Away from Positivism? Materialist and Feminist Approaches to Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research."
Chapters in Books
Roman, L. G. and L. Eyre, (1997). "The Usual Suspects?: Struggles for Equality and Difference", (pp. 1-20). In Roman, L. G. and Eyre, L. (Eds.). Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality. New York/London: Routledge.
Roman, L. G. and T. Stanley. (1997)."Empires, Emigrés and aliens." In Roman, L. G. L. Eyre (Eds.), (pp. 205-231). Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality. New York/London: Routledge.
Roman, Leslie G. (1997). "Denying (White) Racial Privilege: Redemption Discourses and the Uses of Fantasy", (pp. 270-282). In Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Mun Won et.al. (Eds.). Off White: Readings on Race, Power and Society. New York: Routledge.
Roman, Leslie G. (1996). "The Moral Panic and the Spectacle of Youth-at-Risk", (151-172). In D. Kelly and J. Gaskell (Eds.). Debating Drop-outs. New York: Teachers College Press.
Roman, Leslie G. (1993). "`On the Ground' with Antiracist Pedagogy and Raymond Williams's Unfinished Project to Articulate a Socially Transformative Critical Realism", (pp. 158-216). In Dennis Dworkin and Leslie G. Roman (Eds.). Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics. Routledge: New York.
Roman, Leslie G. and Dworkin, Dennis (1993). "The Cultural Politics of Location", (pp. 1-17). In Dennis Dworkin and Leslie G. Roman (Eds.). Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics. Routledge: New York.
Roman, Leslie G. (1993). "White is a Color!: White Defensiveness, Postmodernism, and Antiracist Pedagogy," (pp. 279-378). In Cameron McCarthy and Warren Chrichlow (Eds.). Race, Identity, and Representation. New York: Routledge.
Roman, Leslie G. (1991). "The Political Significance of Other Ways of Narrating Ethnography: A Feminist Materialist Approach" (pp. 556-594). In M. LeCompte, W. Millroy, and J. Preissle Goetz (Eds.). The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education. San Diego: Academic Press.
Roman, Leslie G. and Apple, Michael W. (1990). "Is Naturalism a Move Away from Positivism?: Materialist and Feminist Approaches to Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research", (pp. 38-73). In E. Eisner and A. Peshkin (Eds.). Qualitative Inquiry in Education. New York: Teachers' College Press.
Roman, Leslie G. and Christian-Smith, Linda. (1988). "Introduction", (pp. 1-34). In L. G. Roman and L. Christian-Smith(Eds.). Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture. London: Falmer Press.
Roman, Leslie G. (1988). "Intimacy, Labor, and Class: Ideologies of Feminine Sexuality in the Punk Slam Dance", (pp. 143-184). In L. G. Roman and L. Christian-Smith (Eds.). Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture. London: Falmer Press.
Review Essays
Roman, Leslie G. (1992). "Whose Voices Speak with Whom?: Review Essay of Patti Lather's Getting Smart: Feminist Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern". Historical Studies in Education. The Journal of Canadian History of Education, 4(2): 295-305.
Published Occasional Working Papers
Roman, L. G. (1993). "On the Line with Women's Lives," In Voices from the Picket Lines, Occasional Working Paper in Women's Studies and Gender Relations 2(1), March 1993, Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Articles in Professional Trade Journals:
Leslie Roman and Arlene Tigar Mc Laren (Nov./Dec. 1999). "The `What About the Boys?’ Debate: Gendered Anxieties and Public Schools." British Columbia Teacher 12(3): 10.
Rothaus, L. G. (Roman, L. G.) (1981). "The conspiracy against the laity." Setting the Pace, Illinois State Association Adult Education Journal, 1(3).
WORK IN PROGRESS
Articles in Refereed Journals (Work in Progress)
Roman, Leslie G. (forthcoming, 2002). Invited Guest Editor of and contributor to Special Issue for the international journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Issue will address feminist materialist and feminist postcolonial conceptions of "truth", "voice" and " representation", taking into account the conditions and contexts for "truthfulness" in response to QSE’s Special Issue on the "Rigoberto Menchú Controversy" published in March/April 2000. "Editorial Introduction" (title not yet determined), publication slated for Winter, 2002.
Leslie G. Roman (forthcoming, Winter, 2002). "Registers of Voice: Discriminating Between the Hollow but Shrill Ring of Individualism and the Deafening Noise of Institutional Authority in Qualitative Research", Special Issue of the international journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Chapters in Edited Books (Work in Progress):
Roman, Leslie G. (forthcoming April 2000). "The School As Imaginary Landscape of Diasporic Families" (solicited chapter forthcoming). In Allison Jones and Nicholas Burbules (eds.). Difficult Pedagogies: The Limits of Multiculturalism. New York: Peter Lang Pub.
Review Essays (Work in Progress):
Roman, Leslie G. (mss. in progress, forthcoming 2000/01). "Masculinities in Crisis" (peer reviewed solicited review essay of Rob Gilbert and Pam Gilbert’s Masculinity Goes to School and Bob Lingard and Peter Douglas’s Men Engaging Feminism. Educational Theory.
Invited Distinguished Lectureships:
Invited Opening Address, "Third Spaces, Globalization and Learning from Diasporic Feminists," The Eighth Tampere Conference on American/North American Studies, "Border Crossings," University of Tampere, Finland, Invited Lecturer, Tampere, Finland, April 22-25, 1999. Audience included the honorable ambassadors of Finland, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, as well as members of the Fulbright Scholars’ Association.
Invited Closing Address, "The Future of Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinarity, and North American Studies," The Eighth Tampere Conference on American/North American Studies, "Border Crossings," University of Tampere, Finland April 22-25, 1999.
Invited Lecturer, "Between Embodiment and Entitlement: Studying Bodies, Researching Lives," Women’s Studies Program, University of Tampere, Finland, April 20, 1999.
Invited Opening Remarks,"Unruly Border-Crossers: Interdisciplinary Scholars at the Crossroads" for the "Discipline and Place Collective’s" International Conference, "The University As/In Contested Space." May 1-2, 1998. Choi Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Invited Lecturer, "Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Transgression, Display and Repression", Faculty of Education, City University of New York Graduate Center, Faculty of Education, September 17, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, "The Usual Suspects?: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education", drawing faculty and graduate students from three local universities (Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, and Griffith University) at University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Nov.14, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, "Inquiring Feminisms: Methods of Dialog", Faculty of Education at Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 15, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, "Spectacle in the Dark: Youth as Trangression, Display and Repression" for Youth and Social Policy Conference (including national, provincial and local educational policy-makers, teachers, and administrators) sponsored by Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Nov. 18, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, "The Usual Suspects?: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education", Faculty and graduate students of the Centre for Educational and Social Change, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Nov. 19, 1996.
Invited Lecturer, "The Usual Suspects?: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education," Faculty of Education, University of Monash, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Nov. 21, 1996.
Invited Lecturer and Panelist, "The Whiteness Within: The Many Likenesses of Sojourner Truth", Joint International Conference given by the Educational Research Association, Singapore and the Australian Association for Research in Education, Nov. 25-29, 1996 Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore.
Invited Lecturer, "The Whiteness Within: The Many Likenesses of Sojourner Truth, Green College Lecture Series, University of British Columbia, March 8, 1995.
Invited Colloquia Speaker, "Denying White Racial Privilege: Redemption Discourses and the Uses of Fantasy," Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Nov. 1, 1995.
Invited Guest Lecture, "The Whiteness Within: The Many Likenesses of Sojourner Truth," Dept. of Sociology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, November 21, 1995.
Invited Distinguished Lecturer for international interdisciplinary conference, "Multicultural Critical Theory: Between Race and Ethnicity," University of Victoria's Humanities Centre. "Empires, Emigrés, and Aliens: Young People's Negotiations with Official and Unoffical Racism in Canada," January 27-29, 1995. University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
Invited Presenter, "White is a Color!: White Defensiveness, Postmodernism and Antiracist Pedagogy" for the Graduate Students' Lecture Series of the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October, 1993.
Invited Keynote Address and Presenter in two symposia as a 1992 Visiting International Research Fellow of the Australian Association for Research in Education conference, "Educational Research: Discipline and Diversity." Keynote address was to be "Anti-racist Pedagogy on the Ground." The other two symposia papers to be given respectively on comparative case studies of multiculturalism and anti-racist pedagogy and research methodology were entitled, "White is a Color! White Defensiveness, Postmodernism and Anti-racist Pedagogy" and "The Political Significance of Other Ways of Narrating Ethnography: A Feminist Materialist Approach." Faculty of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. November 24-29, 1992. Declined due to death of my sister.
Invited Research Fellow to give lectures at Griffith University, November 18, 1992; Queensland University of Technology, November 19, 1992; Queensland University, Faculty of Education, November 20, 1992; and University of Canberra, November 30, 1992, as well as a series of workshops in conjunction with Women's Day, sponsored by Faculty of Education, Professors Jill Blackmore and Jane Kenway, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Declined due to death of my sister.
Invited Address for Division D Invited Address on the symposium "New Directions in Qualitative Research Methodology" to present, "Working for Feminist Materialist Ethnography" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, MA, April 16-20, 1990.
Invited Speaker for the Second Biennial Symposium of New Feminist Scholarship (a juried national symposium). Paper given entitled, L.G. Roman "Double Exposure: The Politics of Feminist Materialist Ethnography." State University of New York-Buffalo, March 31, 1990. Also invited to give this paper for numerous conferences and colloquia including the following: The Center for Cultural Studies, Women's Studies and the Department of Sociology Colloquia Series at Rice University, Houston, TX, September 12-14, 1989; and as a speaker and discussant for the annual International Conference on Qualitative Inquiry, University of Georgia-Athens, January 5-7, 1989.
Invited critic and discussion leader on "Ethics in Ethnographic Research" for Egon Guba's Alternative Paradigms of Research, sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa, San Francisco, CA, March 25-27, 1989.
Invited Keynote Address, L.G. Roman and M.W. Apple, "Is Naturalism a Move Away from Positivism? Feminist and Materialist Approaches to Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research," given at the conference, Qualitative Inquiry in Education, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 24-26, 1988.
Invited Speaker for Mass Culture Group, sponsored by the Departments of History, English and Women's Studies at the University of Chicago, L.G. Roman, "Cultural Studies as Gender Text: Feminist and Materialist Approaches to Popular Culture," presented to faculty and students, Chicago, IL, May 1988.
Invited Respondent to Mary O'Brien's paper, "The Commatization of Women: Patriarchal Fetishism in the Sociology of Education", given at the Gender in Education Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November, 1984.
Invited Lecturer for Department of Education, King's College-London, under the auspices respectively of Geoff Whitty, University of London-Kings College, and Alison Kelly, University of Manchester, England. L.G. Roman, "Punk Femininity: Style and Class Conflict", January, 1984.
PAPERS OR PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS
Leslie G. Roman, "Decolonizing Imperial Feminism: Learning from Diasporic Feminists," a paper for a symposium on Feminism and Globalization at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, April 1998, San Diego, CA.
Leslie G. Roman, "Genealogies of Feminist Qualitative Research and the Ethics and Politics of Angst", critical respondent to panelists on "The Ethics of Angst in Qualitative Research", Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1996.
Leslie G. Roman, "The Whiteness Within: The Many Likenesses of Sojourner Truth," A Paper Presented at the International Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism Conference: Identity, Nation, Self." Washington, DC. October 12-15, 1995.
L. G. Roman and Timothy Stanley, "What Students Don't Talk About and What Antiracists Need to Talk About," a paper to be presented as part of an experimental symposium, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Racism," at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1994, New Orleans, LA.
L. G. Roman, "After Acpocalypse and Redemption: What Can Science Education Learn from Feminist Materialism and Postcolonialism?," a paper to be presented as part of the symposium, "What is Science Education?," at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 1994, New Orleans, LA.
L. G. Roman, "Disabling Methods and Frameworks: Towards Institutional Ethnographies of Youth in and out of School," a paper presented as part of the symposium "Postmodernism Meets Materialist and Socialist Feminist Theory," at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Atlanta, GA, April 12-16, 1993.
L. G. Roman, "Ideologies of `At Risk' Youth," comments presented in response to papers given at the "Dropping In/Dropping Out" conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, March 11-13, 1993.
L. G. Roman, "The Beasts Within: Reactionary Politics and the New Defensive Feminisms" for symposium entitled, "The Impact of Feminism on University Curricula: North American Case Studies in Policy and Pedagogy," sponsored by the Women's Sig. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April 19-23, 1992.
L. G. Roman, "`On the Ground' with Antiracist Pedagogy. Paper presented at the Sociology of Education Annual Meeting, Asilomar, CA, Feb. 21-23, 1992.
L. G. Roman, "Double Exposure: The Politics of Feminist Materialist Ethnography" for the symposium, "Proceed with Caution: Researchers Look at Themselves Looking at Others," sponsored by the Centre for Research on Gender Relations and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia, March, 1992.
L. G. Roman, "Narrating Otherness and Difference: Why We Need a Contested Social Realism in this Class." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, MA, April 16-20, 1990.
L. G. Roman, "The Struggle for Reflexivity and Politicized Subjectivities in Feminist Materialist Ethnography." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, March 27-31, 1989.
L. G. Roman, "Double Exposure: The Struggle for Reflexivity in Ethnographic Research." Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference, Dayton, OH, October 26-29, 1988.
L. G. Roman, "Feminist Cultural Studies: Breaking Away from the Masculinist Terms of Debate, Discourse and Struggle." Paper presented as part of the symposium "Contributions of Cultural Studies to the Sociology of the Curriculum: A Look at Recent Research" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 5-9, 1988.
L. G. Roman, "Forging a Feminist Materialist Politics of Ethnography." Paper presented at the Bergamo Conference, Dayton, OH, October 28-November 1, 1987.
L. G. Roman, "Reproducing Nuclear Familialism Through Punk Music: The Subcultural Curriculum Outside School." Paper presented as part of the symposium "Education and Identity Formation" at the American Educational Studies Association Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, October 29-November 1, 1986.
L. G. Roman, "School Knowledge, Family Form and Sexual Discourses." Paper presented as part of the symposium "School and the Reproduction of Familial Discourses on Wage Work, Sexuality and Domesticity" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, April, 1986.
L. G. Roman,"Slam Dancing Among a Group of American Punks: The Other Side of Sensual Production." Paper presented as part of the symposium "National Cultures and Imperialist Ideologies" at the Third Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Montreal, Canada, July 8-13, 1985.
L. G. Roman, "Sexuality, Intimacy and the Labor Process: The Convergence of School and Family Knowledge." Paper presented as part of the symposium "School Knowledge, Family Form and Sexual Discourses" at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, 1985.
L. G. Roman, "Feminism: A Double-edged Sword for Chicanas." Paper presented at the National Women's Studies Association Meeting, Storrs, CT, Spring 1981.
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS, and COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS
4/99-6/2000 Awarded Small HSS (1000.00) for "Unbraiding White Desire in Antiracist Feminisms: Learning from Transnational Collaborations and Cross-Border Pedagogies."
4/97--6/98 Awarded Large HSS ($2500.00) for "Personal Genealogies as Method: Situating Diasporic Lives and Texts."
4/96-7/98 Awarded the Hampton Interdisciplinary Research Grant ($46,000.00) as the Principal Investigator of a cultural studies team I organized on campus on the theme: "Discipline and Place: Remapping Interdisciplinarity."
3/96-7/97 Awarded a Small HSS ($1700.00) for "Decolonizing Imperial Feminism: Personal Genealogies of Post-Colonial Feminists."
12/95-6/97 Awarded the Izaack Walton Killam Memorial Fellowship to complete my book, Transgressive Knowledge: Comparative Studies in Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, Boulder and New York: Rowman and Littlefield. This is a sebattical fellowship (15,000.00 plus 3,000.00 for research travel).
10/4-12/95 $10,000.00 Awarded the Ministry of Education Gender Equity Grant for ethnographic research on teachers' conceptions of gender equity and antiracism in a period of backlash and retrenchment. Grant entitled, "The Long Road to Renewal: Teachers' Strategies for Coping and Challenging Backlashes Against Anti-oppression Pedagogies and Policies in Schools."
7/95-12/95 Awarded the University of British Columbia Scholar-in-Residence at the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, Vancouver, BC.
Fall 1992 Awarded Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Travel Grant to present invited keynote address and participate in two symposia as a Visiting International Research Fellow of the Australian Association for Research in Education conference. The papers to be given were: "`On the Ground' with Antiracist Pedagogy," "White is a Color! White Defensiveness, Postmodernism, and Antiracist Pedagogy," and "The Political Significance of Other Ways of Narrating Ethnograpy: A Feminist Materialist Approach," Deakin University, November 24-29, 1992. Unable to accept award due to death of my sister. Also invited to give lectures at Griffith University, November 18, 1992; Queensland University of Technology, November 19, 1992; Queensland University, Faculty of Education, November 20, 1992 and University of Canberra, November 19, 1992, as well as workshops in conjunction with Women's Day, sponsored by Deakin University, Faculty of Education.
Spring 1990 Finalist for the Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellowship, "Theorizing Female Diversity: The Social Construction of Difference," Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
Fall 1989 "Critics' Choice" Award of the American Educational Studies Association for Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture
Summer 1987 Louisiana State University Summer Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research.
1984-1986 Vilas Dissertation Research Fellow (awarded twice).
1983-1984 Knapp Domestic Travel Award to Montreal.
1983-1984 Knapp Foreign Travel Award to England for Dissertation Field Research.
1978 Declined Graduate Fellowship in Women's History, State University of New York-Binghamton.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE to the SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY
1993-2000 Editorial Board for Educational Theory.
1997-2000 Editorial Board for the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
1992-2000 Editorial Board for Discourse: The Cultural Politics of Education (international journal, published in Australia, University of Queensland and University of Monash).
1992-1995 Editorial Board for Teaching, Learning, and Human Development Sections of American Educational Research Journal.
1992-Present Reviewer for the Journal of Intercultural Studies.
1996-1997 Guest Special Reviewer for Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Special Issue, Feminisms and Youth Cultures due to be published in 1998.
1993-1997 Reviewer for the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
1996-Present Reviewer for Society and Space.
1996-Present Reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
1991-Present Reviewer for several SSRC strategic and basic grants in the areas of gender equity and antiracism.
1993-1995 Reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC.
1992-1994 Reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Education.
1990 Reviewer for Division B, Curriculum Studies of the American Educational Research Association.
1985-1987 Reviewer for Sociology of Education.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
1997-Present Teacher Education and EDST 314/400 Planning and Curriculum Committees.
1999-Present Chair of the Educational Studies SpeakersÕ Series.
1999-Present Educational Studies, Philosophy of Education Search Committee.
1997-Present Educational Studies, Graduate Admissions Committee, Univ. of British Columbia.
1997-Present Women's Studies Coordinating Committee, Women's Studies Program, Univ. of British Columbia.
1997-1998 Organization and Implementation of the Hampton-funded UBC's "Discipline and Place Collective" and our Collective's International Conference, "The University As/In Contested Space," which hosted at the Choi Building. Attending were some 100 students and faculty from UBC, Simon Fraser University and Univ.of Victoria for an interdisciplinary and cultural studies intellectual event, May 1, 1998 and was followed May 2, 1998 by our collective's interview/dialog with three international feminist and/or antiracist scholars, Lisa Lowe, Terry Threadgold and Renata Salecl. The conference established links among the Faculties of Education Arts and Sciences (L. Roman, Dean Neuman and Bernard Bressler, Vice Pres. of Research at UBC, opened the conference).
1992-94 Dean Nancy SheehanÕs Advisory Committee on Gender and Race Relations, Faculty of Education, UBC.
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