An Intimate Memoir of Resistance Theory

Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY and is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project (PSP). A sampling of her most cited books and policy monographs includes The Changing Landscape of Public Education (with Michael Fabricant, Paradigm Press, 2013); Charter Schools and the Corporate MakeOver of Public Education (with Michael Fabricant, Teachers’ College Press, 2012); Revolutionizing Education: Youth participatory action research in motion (with Julio Cammarota, Routledge, 2008); Muslim-American Youth (with Selcuk Sirin, New York University Press, 2008); Becoming Gentlemen: Women and law school (with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin, Beacon Press, 1997); Working Method: Social research and social justice (with Lois Weis, Routledge, 2004); and Framing Dropouts: Notes on an urban high school (SUNY Press, 1991). Her classic collaboration, “Changing minds: The impact of college on women in prison” (2001) is nationally recognized as the primary empirical basis for the contemporary college in prison movement.