Dr. Gavin Weiser
associate professor
Educational Admin& Foundations
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HOV Hovey Hall 309
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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.
Current Courses
599.008Dissertation Research
599.008Dissertation Research
461.001Student Development Theory In Higher Education
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, 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.
DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. G. (2021). Striving for equity in pandemic times: The administrator’s role in the shift to online education in K-12 and higher education spaces. In Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises (pp. 199–223). IGI Global. https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/striving-for-equity-in-pandemic-times/278476
Weiser, S., Wagner, T., & Mikkel, T. Queerly growing sideways in a carceral state: The intersections of queer lives & the police state. Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South (2020)
Monreal, T., & Weiser, S. Integrating Civil Liberties into Middle Grades World History: Colin Kaepernick and Ancient Mesopotamia. Hubbard, Janie (EDs), Extending the Ground of Public Confidence (2019)
Journal Article
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
Weiser, G. (2023). Activism as leadership: Supporting progressive activists within our work. Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 5(2), 23–37. https://doi.org/10.52499/2023013
Weiser, S. G., DeMartino, L., & Stasicky, A. (2023). Like a Pig in Mud: Rejecting the Manicured Boundaries of the Patriarchy. Journal of School Leadership, 33(2), 214–236. https://doi.org/10.1177/10526846221149218
Weiser, G., & DeMartino, L. (2022). “We’re not going back to what was before, and we don’t know what the future will look like either”: Exploring the voices and images of educational administrators in crisis. Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal, 15(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.26209/td2022vol15iss21633
DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. G. (2021). The desert flowers always bloom following the monsoon: Activism, school boards, and COVID-19. American Educational History Journal.
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)