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Teaching Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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B.A. and M.A. Women Studies, San Francisco State University
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara

Adjunct Teaching Professor
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Faculty Associate, Center for Human Rights
University of Washington Seattle

Recipient of the University of Washington Bothell Distinguished Teaching Award, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office: UW1-142
Phone: 425-352-3182
Email: jshayne@uw.edu<\/a>
Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I knew I wanted to become a professor a couple of weeks into my first Women\u2019s Studies class. Teaching is my absolute favorite part of my job and I was truly honored to be the UW Bothell recipient of the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019<\/a>. In general, my classes focus on politics, poverty, and resistance in the Global South, typically through the lenses of gender and feminism.  I passionately believe that as residents of the most powerful country in the world we are in part responsible for global policies implemented in our name and with our money.  It is therefore my goal to enable students to understand the historical and contemporary record regarding transnational policies and empower them to envision and create alternatives at all levels.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My courses expose students to small and large-scale examples of grassroots resistance to political, economic, and social injustice.  In my classes I try and center the voices of marginalized communities. I want BIPOC students to see themselves represented in the assigned texts and in the histories studied in class. I want women and LGBTQ folks to feel connected to and not alienated by the course content. I consider myself an ally to marginalized students; \u201can unafraid educator with and for undocumented students and families.\u201d I want students to leave my classes inspired to keep asking whose voices are we not hearing and why? Ultimately, I hope that students are empowered to translate personal political frustration into mobilization for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all of my classes I center feminist knowledge production, student led learning, and research. For example, I co-created the Feminist Digital Center (FDC) which hosts my students\u2019 open access work. Please visit the Feminist Digital Center<\/a> to see my students’ Badass Womxn and Enbies in the PNW zines; their feminist writing portfolios; and the Feminist Community Archive of Washington. You can read this article<\/a> by Denise Hattwig, Tessa Denton, and myself about how and why we created the FDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent blog posts by Julie Shayne on teaching and social justice are linked below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n