Natalie Adams

Natalie Adams is a professor in the Social Foundations of Education and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Alabama. She has been an active member of AESA since the 1990s. She has presented at almost every AESA conference in the last 15 years, has served as a member of the AESA Critics' Choice Committee, and was the recipient of the AESA Critic Choice Award (along with her co-author Pam Bettis) for Geographies of Girlhood (2005) and Cheerleader: An American Icon (2004). Her research interests focus on the intersection of race, class, and gender in the lives of adolescent girls in the non-formal aspects of schooling. Her research has been published in Education Studies, Teachers College Record, Sociology of Education, Girlhood Studies, Sex Education, Women's Studies Quarterly, Gender & Society, and the Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education. She is also the co- author of Learning to Teach: A Critical Look at Field Experiences, now in its 2nd edition. She has recently begun an oral history project with retired teachers, principals, and superintendents who were part of the court-ordered desegregation of schools in Mississippi from 1967-1971. She has worked with many of her graduate students in preparing presentations for AESA and would like to see AESA develop more ways to nurture graduate students in their journey towards success in the academy.