Dr. Gavin Weiser
associate professor
Educational Admin& Foundations
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HOV Hovey Hall 309
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By appointment
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Biography
S. Gavin Weiser is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations and coordinator of the College Student Personnel Administration master's program. Gavin is also core faculty at ISU in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as affiliated faculty with Latin American/Latino/a Studies.They also also currently serve as the interim director of the graduate school. Gavin earned their Ph.D. in Foundations of Education & Inquiry from the University of South Carolina’s College of Education. Beyond this,they also completed a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Gavin worked for several years as a university administrator in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Carolina focusing on social justice and diversity work. Prior to this Gavin was an outdoor educator for Princeton University, leading youth on backpacking and other outdoor adventure activities.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Bridging the practitioner/researcher divide. Bringing arts-based educational research methods into the classroom.
Research Interests & Areas
Identity, Agency, & Social Movements, Sociology of Education, Ethics of qualitative research, Activism within and beyond the academy, critical university studies
Ph D Educational Foundations & Inquiry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Other Women & Gender Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
MA Higher Education & Student Affairs
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
BA Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Outstanding College Researcher Award
College of Education
2023
College of Education Outstanding Teacher Award
College of Education
2023
Outstanding College of Education Service Award
College of Education
2022
Emerging Faculty Leader Academy
NASPA
2021
Engaged Scholar Initiative
Campus Compact
2021
STAR Award - Promotion of Diversity
ISU Division of Student Affairs
2021
Profile of Social Change
Florida State University - Center for Leadership & Social Justice
2015
Communal Support Award
Progressive Black Men, Inc
2007
Servant Leader Award
Tau Kappa Epsilon
2007
Book, Chapter
Weiser, G., DeMartino, L., Bushchman, P. (2024). Towns & Gowns: A Study in Crisis Leadership. In Reardon, J. & Leonard, J. (Eds.) Volume X: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education: School-University-Community Research. Information Age Publishing
Weiser, G., Dennie, T., & Jallas, M. (2024) Hitting the Books: Scholars and Practitioners Partnering for Intersectional Education. In Mitchell, D. (Ed). Intersectionality and Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (3rd ed.). Peter Lang.
DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. G. (2022). The Desert Flowers Always Bloom Following the Monsoon: Activism, School Boards, and COVID-19. In S. McCarther (Ed.), Snapshots of History: Portraits of the 21st Century Pandemic. Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Snapshots-of-History
Weiser, S. G., & DeMartino, L. (2022). Scholar Participant Phantasmagoria: A Creative Reflection on Research Under Crisis. In K. Lewis, K. Banda, M. Briseno, & E. Weber (Eds.), The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises 13th Annual Curriculum & Pedagogy Group 2021 Edited Collection. Information Age Publishing.
Weiser, S. G., Stasicky, A., Jones, C., & Lynch, M. (2022). Sexual Identity Development Among College
Students. In N. Zhang, P. McCluskey-Titus, & T. Cawthon (Eds.), Theory of College Student Development: Integration of Knowledge, Skills, and Application. Charles C Thomas Pub LTD.
Students. In N. Zhang, P. McCluskey-Titus, & T. Cawthon (Eds.), Theory of College Student Development: Integration of Knowledge, Skills, and Application. Charles C Thomas Pub LTD.
Journal Article
DeMartino, L., & Weiser, G. (2025). Flying a plane, while also building the plane in the air: A covid-19 composite narrative for educational re/newal. American Journal of Qualitative Research, 9(1), 219–235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ajqr/16031
DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. G. (2025). Fierce love and resistance: LGBTQIA2S+ youth thriving in the in-between spaces. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 9(1). https://repository.usfca.edu/ijhre/vol9/iss1/9
DeMartino, L., Weiser, S. G., & Stasicky, L. (2025). Everything is fine: Converging pandemics, resistance,
And sustaining wokeness in education. Social Alternatives, 43(1), 32–41.
And sustaining wokeness in education. Social Alternatives, 43(1), 32–41.
Weiser, S. G., & DeMartino, L. (2025). Reproductive futurity: Policy, pop-culture, and praxis. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 47(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2025.2450579
Wagner, T. L., & Weiser, S. G. (2023). Queer digital forensics as methodology for documenting queer culture at higher education institutions. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 12(4), 102–132. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.4.102
Presentations
DeMartino, L. and Weiser, S. G. (2021, April). The educational administrative response to COVID-19 in the United States: A phenomenological study transitioned to photovoice [Individual Paper/Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society, Virtual.
DeMartino, L. and Weiser, S. G. (2021, April). The educational administrative response to COVID-19 in the United States: A phenomenological study transitioned to photovoice [Individual Paper/Symposium]. Comparative and International Education Society, Virtual.
Are Saturdays Still for the Boys?: Old Row, Social Media, and the Persistence of Normativity in Southern Universities. Social Media & Society Conference. Social Media & Society. (2020)
Artsmatter: More than Human in Arts-Based-Research. ICQI. (2020)
Photovoice Methods as a Means of Accessing Educational Justice. NASPA. NASPA. (2020)
Photovoice as Method for Teaching Methods. ICQI. (2020)
Queer Subjects, Queer Representations, Queer Resistance to the MAGAstream. SIUE Symposium on Women and Gender. SIUE. (2020)
Saturdays for the Boys?: Higher Education, Social Media, & Bodies that Belong. American Educational Studies Association. American Educational Studies Association. (2020)
Affective Relationality & More Than Human Activist Research. AESA. (2019)
It’s Time for Arts & Resistance! College-aged Artistic Activism. National Women's Studies Association. NWSA. (2019)
Grants & Contracts
Building Sense of Belonging, Community, and Leadership Capacity of LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in the Midwest. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2022)
Community Engagement Learning Grant. Center for Civic Engagement. Illinois State University. (2021)
Portrait of a Pandemic. NASPA Region IV-East. Private. (2021)
New Faculty University Research Grant. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2019)
Graduate Civic Scholar. University of South Carolina. Other. (2016)