Intergroup Relations

Jennifer Mueller

Jennifer Mueller

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Jennifer Mueller is an incoming assistant professor of sociology and Assistant Director of the Intergroup Relations Program (IGR) at Skidmore College. Jennifer will receive her Ph.D. in sociology from Texas A&M University in August 2013. Her primary expertise is in racial and ethnic relations, with emphases in intersections of race/class/gender/sexuality, popular and media culture, and teaching and social justice pedagogy. Her specific research agenda focuses on social reproduction of systemic racial inequality over two distinct lines examining the intergenerational transmission of wealth and capital; and everyday, cultural enactments. She has a third, complementary line addressing critical teaching pedagogy.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Jennifer completed a B.S. in psychology and M.S. in counseling from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), moving onto professional positions with the university as an academic advisor for the College of Business and later, Assistant Director in UIUC’s Office of Minority Student Affairs. During her time in that position Jennifer served as an intergroup dialogue facilitator for UIUC’s Program on Intergroup Relations, facilitating and developing numerous inter- and intragroup dialogue courses for the program.

Jennifer has received a number of honors for teaching, scholarship and service, including the highly competitive 2009 U.S. Senator Phil Gramm Doctoral Fellowship for "excellence in scholarly research and teaching and exemplifying the meaning of scholar/mentor in the highest sense."


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