Michelle Fine

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Michelle Melody Fine is a distinguished professor at the City University of New York and has her training in Social and Personality Psychology, Environmental Psychology, American Studies, and Urban Education. Her research includes the topics of social injustice and resistance and urban education. Fine is also an author and has written several works, one of her most known being Muslim American Youth (2008). [1]

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Fine's work integrates critical psychological theory with feminist and post-colonial theory using participants and holds strong commitments to research for social justice. [2]

Career

Michelle Fine has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. She is a professor of Critical Psychology, Women's Studies, American Studies, and Urban Education at the Graduate Center. [3] She focuses on social injustice in terms of research and has given expert testimonies in legal cases such as The Military College of South Carolina and Valenzuela et al. vs. O’Connell and the California State Department of Education in which people of color in urban settings were not given adequate educational opportunities by California schools. She has also provided expert testimonies for women and influenced the victories of women who sued for acceptance to the Citadel Military Academy in Shannon Richey Faulkner and the US v. James E Jones, et al. for The Citadel. Later, she participated in drafting the Psychologists Amicus Brief in Graham and Sullivan v. State of Florida. [2]

Fine is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, which produces theoretically informed and historically enriched research in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights. The Public Science Project has received more than $1,000,000 in grants from public institutions and private foundations that include the Rockefeller Foundation, Overbrook Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation. Fine has received degrees from Bank Street College and Lewis and Clark University and is also a commencement speaker. [2]

Work

Fine works in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a distinguished professor in Social Psychology, American Studies, Urban Education, and Women's Studies. [3] She has been employed at this university since 1992. Previously, Fine worked for twelve years as the Goldie Anna Chaired Professor of Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] At the City University of New York, she works to address theoretical questions focused around social injustice in relation to both youth in schools and criminal justice. [2] Fine has worked with her students to publish over 80 articles in peer-reviewed U.S. and European psychological journals. She has been published in competitive journals in both psychological and educational fields over the past thirty years, including the Journal of Social Issues, the American Psychologist, the Counseling Psychologist, Harvard Educational Review, and Teachers College Record. [2]

Michelle co-led a research collaborative at Queers for Economic Justice during the years 2007 to 2010. The group consisted of cis-gender lesbian, cis-gender gay, transgender, and gender non-conforming New York City residents of diverse ethnic background to study and collect data about the difficulty some people have with obtaining necessary government aid. Homelessness, incarceration, and poverty were some of the factors taken into account prior to producing a final draft of the survey. Participatory Action Research is a study approach used by these researchers and assistants to Billies to conduct the procurement of information needed to accomplish publicizing the research in an organized and timely manner. The data and the publication of "A FABULOUS ATTITUDE: Low income LGBTGNC People Surviving and Thriving on Love, Shelter and Knowledge" led to the mayoral administration of Bill de Blasio to sign into law many legislation geared to lessen discrimination against transgender New Yorkers and people of indigenous American and black African ancestry and Spanish-speaking ethnicity. [4]

Awards

Fine has been a visiting scholar at the University of New Zealand. She has also been a Fulbright scholar at the Institute for Arab Studies at Haifi University. She and colleagues have given expert testimonies in over a dozen legal victories centered around gender, race, and class equity in education. Among other awards, Fine has received the 2013 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy, the 2012 Henry Murray Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology of the APA, the 2010 Social Justice and Higher Education Award from the college and Community Fellowship for her work in prisons, and the 2011 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for her legacy as a mentor over the past 25 years. [1]

Selected works

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Michelle Fine". Critical Social Personality Psychology. 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2017-04-02. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Michelle Fine". www.gc.cuny.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "A Fabulous Attitude: Low Income LGBTGNC People Surviving and Thriving on Love, Shelter, and Knowledge".
  5. ↑ Fabricant, M. and Fine, M. (2013). The Changing Politics of Education: Privatization and the Dispossessed Lives of Those Left Behind. Paradigm Publishers.
  6. ↑ Fabricant, M. and Fine, M. (2012) Charter Schools and the Corporate Make Over of Public Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
  7. ↑ Cammarota, J. and Fine, M. (Eds, 2008) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. New York: Routledge Publishers.
  8. ↑ Sirin, S. and Fine, M. (2008) Muslim American Youth : Understanding Hyphenated identities through Multiple Methods. New York: New York University Press.
  9. ↑ Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2005) Beyond silenced voices (second edition) Albany: SUNY Press. 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
  10. ↑ Weis, L. and Fine, M. (2004) Working Method: Social justice and social research. New York: Routledge Publishers.
  11. ↑ Fine, M., Weis, L., Pruitt, L. and Burns, A. (2004) Off white: essays on race, power and resistance. New York: Routledge Publishers.
  12. ↑ Fine, M., Roberts, R., Torre, M. and Bloom, J., Burns, A., Chajet, L., Guishard, M. and Payne, Y. (2004) Echoes of Brown: Youth documenting and performing the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
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