Michelle Renee Jacobs
Associate Professor
313-577-2930
313-577-2735 (fax)
#2263
Department
SociologyMichelle Renee Jacobs
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
-
Social inequalities
-
Race & ethnicity
-
Mass incarceration & community reentry
-
Qualitative methods
-
Indigenous studies
-
Teaching & learning
Education
PhD, Sociology, Kent State University, 2012Awards and grants
-
Awards
Scholarly Achievement Award-Book, North Central Sociological Society (NCSA), 2024.
Scholaly Achievement Award-Article, North Central Sociological Society (NCSA), 2022.
WSU President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2020.
WSU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 2019.
-
Grants
“The Detroit Reentry Photovoice Project.” ($10,000) WSU Social Sciences Research Support. 2023-2025.
“The Detroit Reentry Photovoice Project.” ($6,000) WSU Humanities Center Faculty Fellow. 2023-2024.
“Wrongful Conviction in Wayne County, MI.” ($10,000) WSU Social Justice Research Fund. 2023-2025.
"Achieving Engagement and Success for Commuter Students in Engineering” ($998,732.00); Award #1742486 NSF Division of Undergraduate Education. Principle Investigator: Jeffrey Potoff; Co-Principle Investigators: Mohson Ayoobi, Michelle Jacobs, Marcis Jansons. 2018-2023.
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
Winter Term 2025 (future)
Fall Term 2024 (current)
Winter Term 2024
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