Michelle Renee Jacobs
Associate Professor
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Department
SociologyMichelle Renee Jacobs
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
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Social inequalities
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Race & ethnicity
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Indigenous studies
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Qualitative methods
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Teaching & learning
Education
PhD, Sociology, Kent State University, 2012Awards and grants
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Awards
WSU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020)
WSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award (2019) -
Grants
"Achieving Engagement and Success for Commuter Students in Engineering” ($998,732.00); Award #1742486 NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (2018-2023). Principle Investigator: Jeffrey Potoff; Co-Principle Investigators: Mohson Ayoobi, Michelle Jacobs, Marcis Jansons
Selected publications
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2023. Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation. New York: New York University Press.Jacobs, Michelle R. 2022.
“The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment.” Sociological Forum 37(1): 177-199.
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2022. “‘You Should Be Proud!’ Native-Themed Mascots and the Cultural Reproduction of White Settler Space.” Sociological Inquiry 92(2): 417-441.
Jacobs, Michelle R. 2019. “Resisting and Reifying Racialization among Urban American Indians.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(4): 570-588.
*Scholarly Achievement Award winner, North Central Sociological Society (NCSA), 2022
Courses taught by Michelle Renee Jacobs
Fall Term 2024 (future)
- SOC1010 - Understanding Human Society
- SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I
- SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II
Winter Term 2024 (current)
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
Fall Term 2022
- SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II
- SOC1010 - Understanding Human Society
- SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I