Prof. Michelle Fine

ichelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY, has taught at CUNY since 1992 and is a founding member of the Institute for Participatory Action Research and Design (formerly the Participatory Action Research Collective) at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. (http://web.gc.cuny.edu/psychology or http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/start.htm). From 1981 – 1992, I was on the Human Development faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. My research has been organized through participatory action research and focuses how youth think about and contest injustice in schools, communities and prisons. Recent awards include the 2008 Social Justice award from the Cross Cultural Winter Roundtable, the 2007 Willystine Goodsell Award from the American Educational Research Association, the 2005 First Annual Morton Deutsch Award, an Honorary Doctoral Degree for Education and Social Justice from Bank Street College in 2002 and the Carolyn Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association in 2001.