Michelle Renee Jacobs

Michelle Renee Jacobs

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Social inequalities
• Race and ethnicity
• Mass incarceration and community reentry
• Qualitative methods
• Indigenous studies
• Teaching and learning

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, Kent State University, 2012

Awards 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

News mentions

• “Real Pictures of Reentry” photo exhibit comes to Hamtramck

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)

• SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I
• SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II

Fall Term 2024

• SOC1010 - Understanding Human Society

Winter Term 2024

• SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I
• SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II

Fall Term 2023

• SOC1010 - Understanding Human Society
• SOC7260 - Qualitative Sociology

Winter Term 2023

• SOC2300 - Social Inequality
• SOC8710 - Advanced Seminar in Race/Ethnicity

Fall Term 2022

• SOC1010 - Understanding Human Society
• SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I
• SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II

Winter Term 2022

• SOC2200 - Sociology as a Vocation I
• SOC4010 - Sociology as a Vocation II
• SOC7260 - Qualitative Sociology