Madelaine Adelman

About

Madelaine Adelman earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology at Duke University and is a professor of justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She teaches courses on research methods, sexuality and social justice, qualitative data analysis, and identity and justice to undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students. Her research is driven by new ideas about identity, violence, and the state, focusing on families and schools as social institutions that profoundly shape the content and quality of people's lives. Adelman is the author of "Battering States: The Politics of Domestic Violence in Israel" and co-editor of "Jerusalem: Conflict and Cooperation in a Contested City." She has published extensively on topics including school culture, domestic violence, and anti-LGBT bias in K-12 schools, collaborating with colleagues and graduate students in various academic journals.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Gender studies
• Engineering
• Social Science
• Criminology
• Law
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• Simulations and Social Empathy

  Violence Against Women · 2016-02-16 · 32 citations

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  When teaching about domestic violence, we hope that our students will be moved to act and organize against it within a social justice framework. We argue that instructional simulations can be used to inspire students to do so. Instructional simulations and gaming tools have been part of higher education pedagogical tool kits since at least the 1960s. Yet it is only recently that a domestic violence resource exists that reflects the interdisciplinary, interactive, and empathy-building orientation…

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• Battering States

  Vanderbilt University Press eBooks · 2017-03-28 · 16 citations

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• Gen Z GSAs: Trans-Affirming and Racially Inclusive Gender-Sexuality Alliances in Secondary Schools

  Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education · 2022 · 13 citations

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  Background: Within the context of high school student clubs, the acronym “GSA” originally stood for “Gay-Straight Alliance.” It described gay and straight youth working as allies to learn about themselves and each other’s lives and to navigate and address interpersonal and institutional anti-LGBTQ school policies and practices. Today, the acronym is commonly parsed by Gen Z members as “Gender-Sexuality Alliance” to better represent the presence and needs of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-non…

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• Sociolegal Contexts of LGBTQ Issues in Education

  2015-04-01 · 11 citations

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• Introduction

  Violence Against Women · 2016-09-08 · 6 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Phoebe Morgan

  3 shared

• Eliza Byard

  3 shared

• Sarah Hautzinger

  Colorado College

  2 shared

• Edna Erez

  University of Illinois Chicago

  2 shared

• Miriam Fendius Elman

  2 shared

• Christine Yalda

  2 shared

• Jennifer Wies

  1 shared

• Nancy C. Larson

  University of Arizona

  1 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology

  Duke University

  1997

• B.A., Anthropology and Political Science

  Duke University

  1989

Awards & honors

• GLSEN Phoenix chapter founding member (2002)
• GLSEN’s National Advisory Council (2004-2013)
• GLSEN’s Board of Directors (2010)

Similar researchers at Arizona State University

• Ariel Anbarh-93
• Leanna Archambaulth-26
• Carole Basileh-11