Spring 2026 Events
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New Books, New Feminist Directions
Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research: Editors and Authors Dialogue about a “Beyond Now”
From left to right: Sherri Castillo, Sabrina J. Curtis, Susan C. Faircloth, Katherine Leigh-Osroosh, Melinda Lemke, Sylvia Mendoza, Jaylene Patterson, and Katherine C. Rodela
February 5, 2026 (Thursday)
12:00 - 1:30pm (ET)
via Zoom
This panel showcases a discussion between editors and authors who are published in the fall 2025 QSE special issue (SI), “Beyond Now: Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education.” This SI featured ten critical qualitative methodological articles that questioned and responded to traditionalist research assumptions, practice metanarratives, and taken-for-granted classed, gendered, and racialized scripts. Curated across disciplinary, generational, and professional backgrounds, panelists will engage in a dialogue about the necessity of feminist political, policy, and research futures beyond now—a horizon of possibility that resists the constraints of the present and insists on future-making grounded in abolitionist, decolonial, and feminist commitments. Mindful of our current regressive political moment, this dialogue is fueled by the kind of renewal, repair, and remedy that feminist and other critical praxes offer educative spaces and the commons.
Planners & Facilitators (not by alpha):
-Melinda Lemke, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Educational Policy, UB, SUNY. Interested in learning more about the QSE Special Issue, please contact: malemke@buffalo.edu
-Katherine Leigh-Osroosh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Counseling, School, & Educational Psychology, UB, SUNY
Panelists (by alpha):
-Sherri Castillo, Ph.D., Learning Lab Manager & Adjunct Professor, Student Development, Austin Community College
-Sabrina J. Curtis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Youth & Social Innovation, University of Virginia
-Susan C. Faircloth, Ph.D., Owner/Principal Consultant, Two Feathers Consulting, LLC
-Sylvia Mendoza, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio
-Jaylene Patterson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology School Psychology, Rutgers University
-Katherine C. Rodela, Ph.D., George Brain & Gay V. Selby Professor of Educational Leadership, Chair & Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Sport Management, Washington State University