Deidre Hill Butler, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Sociology
Union College
807 Union Ave.
Schenectady, NY 12308
Phone 518-388-8070; Fax 518-388-6721
Email butlerd@union.edu
http://www.union.edu/PUBLIC/SOCDEPT/butlerd/

Education

Ph.D. Women’s Studies. Clark University, Worcester, MA, 2002.
Dissertation Title: Reconstructing African American Suburban Womanhood: Agency across Boundaries, 1870-1940.

M.A., Women's Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 2001.

M.P.S., African and African American Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1994.
Thesis: Without Struggle There Is No Progress: an Ethnohistoric Study of African Americans in Ithaca, New York.

B.A., Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1991.
Major: African-American Studies with a concentration in literature; Minor: Anthropology

Undergraduate work, Fisk University, Nashville, TN, W.E.B. Du Bois Scholar (Campus Honors Program), 1987–89.

• Sociology of Mothering
• Family in American Society
• Sociology of African American Culture
• Black Feminist Practice

• “The South Side Community Center of Ithaca, NY: Built Through Community Mothering, 1938.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, January, 2008.

• “The Split: A Womanist Interpretation of Black Suburban Community Reconfiguration: 1904–1920” forthcoming with the Association of Black Women Historians edited book publication.

• Book Review: The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought, edited by Layli Phillips, forthcomning in The Journal of Pan African Studies, Volume 1, Number 10.

• “The Daughters of Myrtle Baptist Church: Womanist Consciousness in Motion.” Association for the Research on Mothering Journal, Vol. 9.2–“Mothering, Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Class,” December 2007.

Articles under Review

• “Reflections of a Black Female Professor at a Predominately White Northeastern Liberal Arts College.” Under review with Black Women and Girls Reflect on the N-Word Project, edited by Amie Breeze Harper.

Work in Progress
African American Stepmothers (Book manuscript in progress)

Guest Editor
Journal of Pan African Studies, a peer reviewed journal. Theme: Africana Mothering, Publication date: Fall 2007

Teaching History
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 2001-present.

• “Introduction to Sociology”
• “African Americans in Contemporary Society”
• “African American Women: Unheard Voices and Contemporary Lifestyles”
• “The Sociology of the American Family : Cross Cultural Perspectives”
• “History of Sociological Thought”
• Camp College (Union College Sponsored Pre-College Program for First Generation and Historically Underrepresented Students in conjunction with the New York State Association of College Admission Counseling.)
• STEP (Science and Technology Entry Program for Schenectady County Disadvantaged Youth), Union College
  • Race and Gender in Popular American Culture courses
• Summer Faculty Member for the Union College The Academic Opportunity Program (AOP) and the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP)

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