Amira Proweller

She/Her/Hers
College of EducationTeacher Education, Kinesiology, and Educational Studies​Associate Professor and Program DirectorFacultyFull Time
DegreesPhD
Contact
aprowell@depaul.edu(773) 325-4320
Office
2247 N. Halsted St. Office 300 Chicago, IL 60614

BIO

Amira Proweller received her Ph.D. in the Social Foundations of Education from the State University of New York – Buffalo. Proweller is the author of Constructing Female Identities: Meaning Making in an Upper-Middle Class Youth Culture. Her research interests and publications have focused on the cultural politics of schooling, youth culture and identity formation, educational policy, service-learning in higher education and youth participatory action research.

Education

  • PhD State University of New York — Buffalo
  • MA University of Wisconsin — Madison
  • BA Vassar College

Courses Taught

  • SCU 207 Social and Historical Issues in Education
  • SCG 408 Education and Social Order
  • SCG 409 Reflective Seminar: Sociology of Education
  • SCG 410 Introduction to Research: Purposes, Issues and Methodologies
  • SCG 604 Proseminar: Identity in Education
  • SCG 610 Introduction to Research Methods
  • SCG 635 Advanced Qualitative Research Methodologies
  • SCG 745 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (I)
  • SCG 765 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods (II)

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research methodology; sociology of education; educational policy; school reform; gender/sexuality studies in education; critical youth studies