Michelle Jacobs

Michelle Jacobs

Department

Sociology

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

• Social inequalities
•  Race & ethnicity
•  Indigenous studies
•  Qualitative methods
•  Teaching & learning

Education

• PhD, Sociology, Kent State University, 2012

Awards and grants

• 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. 2019. “Internalized Images, Reified Race: Racialization and Urban American Indians.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42(4): 570-588.

Jacobs, Michelle R. and David M. Merolla. 2017. “Being Authentically American Indian: Symbolic Identity Construction and Social Structure among Urban New Indians.” Symbolic Interaction 4(1): 63 – 82.

Jacobs, Michelle R. 2015. “Urban American Indian Identity: Negotiating Indianness in Northeast Ohio.” Qualitative Sociology 38 (1): 79 – 98.

Jacobs, Michelle R. 2014. "Race, Place, & Biography at Play: American Indian Perspectives on Indian Mascots.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 38 (4): 322 – 345.

in progress: Jacobs, Michelle R. Off the Reservation: an Urban American Indian Experience. Book manuscript under contract with NYU Press.

Currently teaching

• SOC 1010: Understanding Human Societies, incl. Honors & Service Learning
• SOC 2300 honors: Urban Explorations: Social (In)justice in Detroit

Courses taught

Undergraduate:
SOC 1010: Understanding Human Societies, incl. Honors & Service Learning
SOC 2300: Social Inequalities, incl. Honors option
SOC 2300 honors: Urban Explorations: Social (In)justice in Detroit
SOC 4201: Seminar in Race and Ethnicity

Graduate:
SOC 8710: Advanced Seminar: Race/Ethnicity
SOC 7260: Qualitative Research Methods