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College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Research Profiles: Cris Mayo

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Research Biography

My research interests include philosophy of education, gender and sexuality studies, and multicultural theory. My book, Disputing the Subject of Sex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, reprinted in paperback, 2007) details clashes over AIDS education and gay inclusive multicultural education in New York State in the 1980's and 1990's. I am currently researching gay/straight alliances in public schools and their work in the formation of associational identities, examining how such groups organize around and address differences of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, and sexuality.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
  • M.A., Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
  • B.A., History & Women's Studies, State University of New York, 1989

Key Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, EPS and GWS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies/ Women's and Gender Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003--
  • Interim Director, Gender and Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2008
  • Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2001-2003
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1998-2001

Activities & Honors

  • Distinguished College Scholar, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-2006

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Queering school communities: Gay straight alliances and the politics of association, Campus Research Board, 2005

Selected Publications

  • Obscene Associations: Gay-Straight Alliances, the Equal Access Act, and Abstinence-Only Policy, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, vol. 5 no. 2 (June 2008).
  • Queering Foundations: Queer and LGBT Educational Research, Review of Research in Education, vol. 31, 2007, 76-94.
  • “Pushing the Limits of Liberalism: Queerness, Children, and the Future,” Educational Theory, 56 (4): 469-487.
  • C. Mayo (2004). Queering school communities: Ethical curiosity and gay straight alliances. Journal of gay and lesbian issues in education, vol. 1, no. 3., 23-36.
  • C. Mayo (2004). The tolerance that dare not speak its name. In M. Boler (Ed) Disturbing speech, troubling silence. New York: Peter Lang 33-47. Reprinted in The Critical Pedagogy Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres, and Marta Baltodano (New York: Routledge, 2008), forthcoming.