Contact Rosemarie Roberts
Education:
B.A., Hunter College;
Enroute Master's degree, Queens College, City University of New York;
Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
Rosemarie A. Roberts
Assistant Professor of Education
On Sabbatical 2011-2012 Academic Year
Joined Connecticut College: 2007
Specializations:
- Education, power and difference
- Intersection of arts and social justice in education
- Social psychology of performance and dance
- Participatory action research
- Critical race theory
- Critical theory
Rosemarie Roberts, assistant professor of education at Connecticut College, holds a doctorate in social personality psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Professor Roberts's research focuses on critical analyses of race, gender and class in education. She is also interested in conceptualizations of social justice in educational practices, particularly the ways in which social justice projects and the arts intersect to reveal the complex layers of structural, sentient and epistemological aspect of educational practice in and outside of traditional school settings.
In 2007, Professor Roberts was a visiting assistant professor of education. Before coming to Connecticut College, she taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and was a Millennium Foundation post-doctoral fellow at Barnard College, where she taught in the education program and directed the Storytelling Project, a curriculum and inquiry project aimed at creating, implementing and evaluating a curriculum that teaches about race and racism through storytelling and the arts.
She has published in the areas of inter-group and intra-group relations, research methods, participatory action research, curriculum, gender, race, ethnic and cultural identity, higher ed and incarcerated women, conceptions of social justice in education and knowledge production and performance through the arts.
Professor Roberts takes a collaborative, and interdisciplinary approach to research, and teaching combining theories in psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology and the arts.
Creating interdisciplinary opportunities for Connecticut College students, Professor Roberts teaches “Embodying Principles and Pedagogies of Social Justice” Cross-listed with the dance department and the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), the course explores educational and pedagogical theories through movement workshops of African-derived black dance, text and films to look at the ways in which dance embodies social justice principles, enacts social protest and serves as a critical site of action.
At Connecticut College, Professor Roberts also teaches "Literacy in the Elementary School," "Children, Books and Culture," and "Student Teaching in the Elementary School."
Her recent publications include:
Roberts, R.A., Bell, L.A., & Murphy, B. (2008). Flipping the Script: Analysis of Youth Talk about Race and Racism. Anthropology and Education Quarterly
Bell, L.A., Roberts, R.A., Irani, K., Murphy, B. (2008). The Storytelling Project Curriculum: Learning about Race and Racism through Storytelling and the Arts. http://www.barnard.edu/education.storytellingproject.
Fine, M., Roberts, R.A., Weis, L. (2008). Puerto Rican Battered Women Redefining Gender, Sexuality, Culture, Violence, and Resistance. In E. M. Schneider, C. Hanna, G. Greenberg, and C. Dalton. Domestic Violence and the Law: Theory and Practice. Thomas/West.
Bell, L.A., Love, B., Roberts, R.A. (2007), Racism and White Privilege. In. M. Adams, L.A. Bell, and P. Griffin (Eds.) Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. New York, NY: Routledge.
Fine, M., Roberts, R.A., Torre, M.E. (2004). Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
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