Gender and Women's Studies

Cris Mayo

Cris Mayo is the Interim Director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program and an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Gender and Women's Studies. Her research interests include sex education, multicultural education, sexual minorities in public schools and school policy, and the philosophy of education.

 

Education

1998     Ph. D. in Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with graduate minor in Women's Studies

1994     M. A. in Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1989     B. A. in History and Women’s Studies, State University of New York at Albany

 

Academic Employment

 

2006-2008   Interim Director, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005-          Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2003-2005   Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2001-2003   Assistant Professor, School of Education, and Women’s Studies Program affiliate, University of Delaware

1998-2001   Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, and Women’s Studies Program affiliate, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

1997-1998  Visiting Lecturer, Department of Educational Administration and Foundations, Illinois State University

1998         Visiting Lecturer, Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Selected Publications

Book

 

Disputing the Subject of Sex:  Sexuality and Public School Controversies, Boulder, CO:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

 

Articles

“Being in on the Joke: Pedagogy, Race, Humor,” Philosophy of Education, forthcoming 2009.

“Obscene Associations: Gay-Straight Alliances, the Equal Access Act, and Abstinence-Only Policy,” Sexuality Research and Social Policy, vol. 5, no. 2 (forthcoming, June 2008), 32 pp.

“Intersectionality and Queer Youth,” Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, forthcoming, 4 pp.

“Disruptions of Desire:  From Androgynes to Genderqueer,” Philosophy of Education, edited by Barbara Stengel (Urbana, Ill.: Philosophy of Education Society, 2008), 49-58.

“Queering Foundations:  Queer and LGBT Educational Research,” Review of Research in Education, vol. 31 (2007): 76-94.

“Pushing the Limits of Liberalism: Queerness, Children, and the Future,” Educational Theory, vol. 56, no. 4 (December 2006).

“Certain Privilege:  Rethinking White Agency.” Philosophy of Education 2005, edited by Chris Higgins (Urbana, Ill.: Philosophy of Education Society, 2005), 308-316.

“Shifting Relations:  Multiculturalism and the Problem of Identity.” Philosophical Studies in Education, vol. 35 (2004): 25-34.

“Queering School Communities:  Ethical Curiosity and Gay Straight Alliances.” Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, vol. 1., no. 3 (Spring 2004): 23-36.

“The Bind that Ties:  Civility and Social Difference.” Educational Theory, vol. 52. no. 2 (Spring 2002): 169-186.

“Framing AIDS:  Policy, Politics, and the Uncertainty of Facts.” Review essay. Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, vol. 9, nos. 1-2, (Winter 2002): 321-328.

“Civility and Its Discontents: Sexuality, Race, and the Lure of Beautiful Manners.”  Philosophy of Education 2001, edited by Suzanne Rice (Urbana, Ill.:  Philosophy of Education Society, 2002), 78-87.

“Curious Alliance:  Post-Identity Politics, Sexuality, and Student Resistance to Curricula.” Philosophical Studies in Education, vol. 32 (2000): 55-62.

“Gender Disidentification:  The Perils of the Post-Gender Condition.” Philosophy of Education, 1999, edited by Randall Curran (Urbana, Ill.:  Philosophy of Education Society, 2000), 356-364.

“Leaving Home:  Cultivating the Alienated Subject in Anti-Racist Education.” Philosophical Studies in Education, vol. 31 (1999): 120-132.

“Gagged and Bound:  Sex Education, Secondary Virginity and the Welfare Reform Act.” Philosophy of Education 1998, edited by Steve Tozer (Urbana, Ill.:  Philosophy of Education Society, 1999), 309-317.

“Public Identity and Secondary Virginity.” Philosophical Studies in Education, vol. 29 (1998): 71-82.

Works in Progress

Queering School Communities: Gay Straight Alliances and the Politics of Association (book project)

Courses Taught

Intro to Gender and Women's Studies in the Social Sciences; Intro to Gender and Women's Studies in the Humanities; Readings in Feminist Pedagogy; Philosophy of Middle School; Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy of Education; History of Educational Ideas; Information Technology and Ethics; Cultural Diversity and Education; Ethnic Studies and Multicultural Theory; School, the Teacher, and Diversity.

Graduate Courses

Sexuality, Education, and Varieties of Queerness; Sexualities and Education; Philosophy of Education; Gender in Educational and Political Theory; Gender Identity and the Public Sphere; Ethics and Education; Epistemology and Education.