Towards a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies
Notes on contributors
Alison Bailey is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department at Illinois State University, where she is also director of the Women’s Studies Program. Her current research addresses questions on race privilege, resistance and the epistemologies of ignorance.
Melanie E.L. Bush is author of Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. 2004). An educator and administrator at Brooklyn College, City University of New York since 1990, she has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and presented at a range of national conferences, particularly in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Dr. Bush has been active for three decades in community struggles against racism and for full employment, education, and women’s rights.
Kevin Dolan is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A former newspaper reporter and editor, his research interests include critical journalism studies, critical whiteness studies, cultural and critical studies, and race and ethnic studies, and more specifically the ways the news media protect and bolster the status quo, particularly what he calls the incumbency of whiteness. He has had essays published in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and Studies in Symbolic Interaction.
Tim Engles is an associate professor in the English Department at Eastern Illinois University. He co-edited Critical Essays on Don DeLillo (G.K. Hall, 2000) and Approaches to Teaching DeLillo’s White Noise (Modern Language Association, 2006) and is currently working on the book Invisible Adjectives: Whiteness and Cultural Identity in Contemporary American Literature. In October, 2003, he co-organized with Suk Ja Kang Engles “After Whiteness: Race and the Visual Arts,” a symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dianne Harris is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is president-elect of the national Society for Architectural Historians. She is writing a book entitled Little White Houses: Race, Class, and the Ordinary Postwar House, 1945-1960 to be published by the Center for American Places with University of Chicago Press. She teaches graduate seminars on race and space, and suburbia. In 2004 she organized a conference at the University of Illinois and sponsored by the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society entitled "Constructing Race: The Built Environment, Minoritization, and Racism in the United States." The papers from the conference will appear in the Spring, 2007 issue of Landscape Journal.
Helen A. Neville is an associate professor in Educational Psychology and Afro-American Studies and Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she is the chair and training director of the Counseling Psychology training program at the University of Illinois. Her research focuses on racism and mental health and general and cultural factors influencing the recovery process from rape.
David R. Roediger is the author of many key whiteness studies books and articles, including The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991), Towards the Abolition of Whiteness (1994), Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (2002) and Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (2005). He is the Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include race and class in the United States and the history of U.S. radicalism.
Lisa B. Spanierman is an assistant professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She uses quantitative and qualitative methodologies to research various aspects of White racial attitudes, with a primary focus on the psychosocial costs of racism to White individuals. She is co-author with M. J. Heppner of an article that recently appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, “Psychosocial Costs of Racism to Whites Scale (PCRW): Construction and Initial Validation.” She is also the founder of the Critical Whiteness Studies reading group at the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society.
Audrey Thompson is a professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society, and adjunct professor in the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah, and is a philosopher of education. Her publications have appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Curriculum Inquiry, Educational Theory, The Lion and the Unicorn, and McGill Journal of Education, as well as other journals and books. She hosts a whiteness studies listserv, which can be found at http://www.pauahtun.org/mailman/listinfo/whitenesstheory.
Carmen P. Thompson is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests focuses on early American and nineteenth century slavery as a context for examining slave culture, gender roles, slave laws, and critical whiteness studies.
Nathan R. Todd is a graduate student in Clinical/Community Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests address how white individuals navigate their white social group membership with the overarching goal of promoting dialogue, strengthening intergroup relations, and promoting social justice consciousness and action.