Full Name
Michelle Fine
Job Title
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women's Studies, American Studies and Urban Education
Company
CUNY Graduate Center
Speaker Bio
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WEBSITE:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Michelle-Fine
Michelle Fine is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, which produces critical scholarship for use in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights.
Fine is a recipient of honorary degrees from Bank Street College and Lewis and Clark University and is a much sought-after commencement speaker. A sampling of her most cited books and policy monographs includes The Changing Landscape of Public Education (2013), with Michael Fabricant; Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education (2012), with Michael Fabricant; Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (2008), with Julio Cammarota; Muslim-American Youth (2008), with Selcuk Sirin; Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change (1997), with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin; Working Method: Research and Social Justice (2004), with Lois Weis; and her classic Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School (1991). She was principal investigator for the 2001 report “Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum-Security Prison,” which is recognized as the primary empirical basis for the contemporary college in prison movement.
WEBSITE:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/Michelle-Fine
Michelle Fine is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, which produces critical scholarship for use in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights.
Fine is a recipient of honorary degrees from Bank Street College and Lewis and Clark University and is a much sought-after commencement speaker. A sampling of her most cited books and policy monographs includes The Changing Landscape of Public Education (2013), with Michael Fabricant; Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education (2012), with Michael Fabricant; Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion (2008), with Julio Cammarota; Muslim-American Youth (2008), with Selcuk Sirin; Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change (1997), with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin; Working Method: Research and Social Justice (2004), with Lois Weis; and her classic Framing Dropouts: Notes on the Politics of an Urban High School (1991). She was principal investigator for the 2001 report “Changing Minds: The Impact of College in a Maximum-Security Prison,” which is recognized as the primary empirical basis for the contemporary college in prison movement.
