Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies Wanda Pillow's research interests include the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality as they impact issues of representation, access, voice, and equality. She explores these issues through thinking and writing about the doing of qualitative research and the methodologies that guide our analyses.
She is completing work on a book about the education of school-aged mothers, 1972-2002, that builds from the above interests and further develops thinking about doing critical, race-based feminist policy analysis. This book uses qualitative, historical, legal, and policy research to analyze how the purpose of education for teen mothers has been and is currently defined and how the purposes of education are often defined differentially based upon the race of the teen mother.
She earned a Ph.D., Educational Policy and Leadership, at The Ohio State University, 1994, an M.S., Special Education, at the University of Utah, 1989, and a B.S., Psychology, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1986.
Selected Publications
* Pillow, W. S. (2004). Unfit subjects: Educational policy and the teen mother. New York: Routledge.
* Pillow, W. S. (2003). Race-based methodologies: Multicultural methods or epistemological shifts? In Gerardo Lopez & Laurence Parker (Eds.), Interrogating racism in qualitative research methodology, pp. 181-202. New York: Peter Lang.
* Pillow, W.S. (2003). Confession, catharsis or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research. The International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education. 16 (2), 175-196.
* Pillow, W.S. (2003). Bodies are Dangerous: Using feminist genealogy as policy studies methodology. Journal of Educational Policy. 18(2), 145-160.
* Pillow, W. S. (2001). Exposed methodology: The body as a site of deconstructive practice: A reflection on doing qualitative research: Reprint & reflection. In S. Merriam (Ed.), Types of qualitative inquiry: Exemplars for study and discussion. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
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