HELEN MOORE, PhD
Professor - Department of Sociology
Professor - Women's Studies Program
715 Oldfather Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0324
(402) 472-3631
Biography
Helen Moore is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her PhD from the University of California-Riverside in 1979.
Dr. Moore's research focuses on educational stratification, including race, class and gender issues as they link to economic structures. From 1999-2004 she edited the American Sociological Association quarterly journal, Teaching Sociology. Dr. Moore is a member of the UNL Academy of Distinguished Teachers and has served as Chair of the Department of Sociology (1992-1997), Chair of the Women's Studies Program (1982-1987), and is currently Vice President of the Board for the Rape/Spouse Abuse Crisis Center (1991-1994). She is the recipient of the UNL James Lake Award for Academic Freedom, the UNL Chancellor's Award for Service to Students and the University System Wide Award for Outstanding Teaching and Creative Activity. She currently co-directs a 5-year grant for the National Institute of Mental Health supporting Native American student research that challenges western models of mental health intervention through traditional cultural pathways of healing.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Perry, G., Moore, H., Acosta, C., & Edwards, C. (in press). Maintaining credibility and authority as an instructor of color in diversity education classrooms: A qualitative inquiry. Journal of High Education.
Freng, A., Freng, S., & Moore, H. (2006). Models of American Indian education: Peer narratives of the language of conflict. Sociological Inquiry, 76, 55-74.
Moore, H. (2005). Testing Whiteness: No School Left Behind. Washington University Law and Policy Review: St. Louis, MO.
Berdahl, T., & Moore, H. A. (2004). Job exit queues: How gender, power and status shape post-merger job exits. Equal Opportunities International, 23, 45-66.
Lucal, B., Ballantine, J., Larson, S., & Moore, H. (2003). Faculty assessment: Knowledge available and knowledge needed in the discipline. Teaching Sociology, 146-157.
Pippert, T., & Moore, H. (1999). Multiple perspectives on multimedia in the large lecture classroom. Teaching Sociology, 37, 92-103.
Book Chapters
Perry, G., Moore, H., Acosta, K., & Edwards, C. (2005). Dialogues on diversity teaching: Reflections on research, pedagogy, and passion for social justice. In N. Peters Davis & J. Schultz (Eds.), Challenges of multicultural education. Paradigm Press.
Research Projects
| Great Plains Cultural Ways Mental Health Careers Program | |
| National Institute of Health Career Opportunities in research Education and Training | |
| Role: Co-PI | 2004 |
| The Diversity Burden: Instructors of Color in Higher Education | |
| Education and Inequality Research Team, Department of Sociology, UNL. | |
| Role: | 2005-2008 |
