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Dr. Gavin Weiser

assistant professor
Educational Admin& Foundations
Office
Degarmo Hall - DEG 340a
Office Hours

By appointment
Office Phone
(309) 438-5422office
phone
Email
smweis1@ilstu.eduemail
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Biography

S. Gavin Weiser is an assistant 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. 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

400.001Independent Study

500.002Independent Study

464.001Practicum In College Student Personnel Administration

482.001Administration Seminar-Non Certification

463.001College Students & Their Cultures

413.001Critical Social Theory & Resistant Knowledge Projects

599.008Dissertation Research

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 of Education Service Award

College of Education
2022

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., 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.
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)
Wagner, T., & Weiser, S. Life is a game, so fight for survival: The neoliberal logics of colonialism within the Battle Royale franchise. Kupferman, David W.; Gibbons, Andrew (EDs), Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina. Springer (2019)

Journal Article


DeMartino, L., & Weiser, S. G. (2021). The desert flowers always bloom following the monsoon: Activism, school boards, and COVID-19. American Educational History Journal.

Weiser, S. Taking a Pause to Consider a Radical New: Or All (Re)envisioning is Science-Fiction Work G Weiser Planning & Changing 50 (3/4), 257. Renn, Dianne (EDs). Planning & Changing 50.3/4 (2021): 257-260.
Weiser, S., & DeMartino, L. The administrative response to the COVID crisis: Voices from the field.. Frontiers in Education 6 (2021)
Weiser, S. G., & DeMartino, L. (2021). Who leads the leaders? K-12 and higher education leadership under duress. Curriculum in Context, 46(2), 15–21.
Weiser, S. Failing with proof: Considerations of queerly failing in visual research. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 43.2020 (2020): 1--20.

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)
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