Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781433832932)

Kim A. Case, PhD, is the Director of Faculty Success at Virginia Commonwealth University. As Director, she develops and implements faculty mentoring programs, supports faculty career development and scholarship productivity, and oversees the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Her mixed-methods research examines ally behavior, interventions to increase understanding of intersectionality and privilege, prejudice reduction, and creation of inclusive workplace and education settings. She is author of Deconstructing Privilege: Allies in the Classroom (2013) and Intersectional Pedagogy: Complicating Identity and Social Justice (2017), both published by Routledge. Her scholarship, blog, and teaching resources are available at www.drkimcase.com. The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues previously honored Dr. Case with the Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award and the Innovative Teaching Award. The Society for the Teaching of Psychology named her as the 2018 Robert S. Daniel Excellence in Teaching Awardee for her nationally recognized pedagogical advancements.

Wendy R. Williams, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at Berea College. She received her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. She was previously an Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies at Marshall University. Her teaching and research interests focus on stigma and prejudice, specifically around issues of social class, including documenting the lived experiences of low-income and working-class Americans, as well as examining the personal and political consequences of how low-income people are perceived. She regularly teaches courses both in the core of the psychology major (e.g., Introduction to Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods, Social Psychology) and in her areas of research interest (e.g., psychology of women & gender, psychology of poverty & social class), and she incorporates service-learning and other experiential learning pedagogies into her teaching. She has published fourteen papers, including a book chapter on how experiential learning can raise awareness of social class privilege. In addition, she has won awards for her research, teaching, service, mentoring, and leadership.,