A tenured Full Professor, Frances offers doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate courses in interpretive and critical research methodologies, anthropology and sociology of education, and women’s studies and feminist theories.
A former Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, Frances also taught junior high school English in the northeastern US, cultural anthropology at a Catholic junior college and graduate classes for teachers, including African American men recruited into the profession, in Philadelphia, and ESL with adults in New York City. She supervised teachers and designed curriculum in a refugee camp in Indonesia, with a Spanish-language and cultural program in revolutionary Nicaragua, and in an employment-training program for welfare recipients, and she oversaw and collected data on community based development in Somalia and Botswana. Working across diverse settings has provided a forum not only to teach, but to learn from students and their interaction with texts, each other, and with data that they collect and analyze.
Frances strives to create participatory spaces for the sharing of knowledge about everyday practices, culture and social organization, power and control, and social reproduction and agency in our own lives and in school settings. In teaching, she learns, and in learning, she teaches.
Teaching Areas
- Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Methodologies
- Feminist Theories and Research Methodologies
- Women’s and Gender Studies
- Anthropology of Education
- Sociology of Education
- Cultural and Social Anthropology
- Cultural Diversity and Pluralism
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
Frances Julia Riemer, PhD 