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Memo
Date:May 17, 2009
To:Ed Yeterian, Dean of Faculty
From:Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D., Professor, Education and Human Development
Re:2008-2009 Annual Report
The following is a list of my teaching, research, and service activities for 2008-2009.
1. Courses taught
This Fall I taught ED 332, "Women, Girls, and the Cultures of Education" (20 students). The course has a significant service-learning component; pairs of ED 332 students facilitate girls groups in middle schools. In addition to our academic work together in class, students learn to facilitate a coalition group curriculum; they are supervised by the respective school’s guidance counselor and the Programs Coordinator of Hardy Girls in Waterville.
2. Committees
Colby:
Search Committee, Education (my own and Mark Tappan’s sabbatical replacement)
Community Service and local activism:
Member of Greater Waterville Area Communities for Children and Youth Coalition.
Serve on the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet Sub-committee on School Climate; also served on the Ad Hoc Policy and Curriculum Development Group of the Maine School Climate Committee. As part of my work, I supervise Waterville Junior High School as a site designated to receive the evidence-based Maine best practices approach to bullying and harassment-prevention.
Co-Creator and Board Member, Hardy Girls Healthy Women
Member of both the Executive and Programs Committees. Participated in HGHW fund-raising events, grant writing, and program development and evaluation in collaboration with the Executive Director and Board of Directors. Conducted various community presentations for parents on Packaging Girlhood (the impact of media and marketing on girls) and Ugly Ducklings (impact of bias-based harassment on youth). Further developed trainings on hardiness theory and developed a girls coalition group facilitators guide for student and community use.
Conducted 3 trainings for Hardy Girls on Cultivating Relational Hardiness Zones:
Colby College, Waterville, ME Oct. 3, 2008
University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, March 27, 2009
Simmons College, Boston, MA, April 28, 2009
Co-lead (with Mark Tappan) the Waterville Junior High School Civil Rights Team. Member of the WJHS School Climate Committee.
Discipline:
American Psychological Association, Division 35 Executive Committee member; Public Interest Chair
Contributing columnist, Div 35 newsletter, The Femininst Psychologist
Association of Moral Education, member
Consultant to Project Girl, Madison Wisconsin, 2006-present.
Consultant to Chewonki Foundation, 2006-present.
Champions Board, Maine National Girls Collaborative Project, 2008-present
Coastal School for Girls, National Council, 2006-present.
New Moon Media, National Advisory Council, 2006-present
Executive Board member, Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
Reviewed 2 books for NYU Press
3. Other College Service
Adam Howard, Education, First Year Review Committee
4. Diversity-related activity
All of my teaching, research and scholarly activities are diversity related. My course is cross-listed in WGSS and addresses diverse girls’ lives and experiences in school and society. My community work at Hardy Girls – which impacts my teaching – addresses the intersection of gender, race, sexual identity/orientation, and social class.
My on-going work at Hardy Girls integrates issues of gender, race, social class, in projects related to community support of girls, girls and education, media literacy for girls and boys, sexual harassment and bias-based harassment, and school bully-prevention efforts state-wide and nationally.
5. Publications
Book chapters:
Brown, L. & Tappan, M. (2008). Fighting like a girl fighting like a guy: Gender identity, ideology, and girls at early adolescence. In M. Azmitia, M. Syed, & K. Radmacher. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development: Bridging identities, bridging disciplines: an interdisciplinary look at the development of intersecting identities.
Brown, L. (2009). Forward. E. Meyer, Gender, Bullying, and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools. New York: Teachers College Press.
Essays and Op Eds:
As the Public Interest Chair for the APA’s Division 35, the Society for the Psychology of Women, I continue to write a column on adolescent girls for the division newsletter, The Feminist Psychologist, called “The Wild Zone.” This year, I’ve written the following columns:
“Everybody, just pretend to be normal”, Spring, 2009, 36 (2)
10 Ways To Move Beyond Bully Prevention, Winter 2009, 36(1)
Dear Mr. President, Fall, 2008, 35(4).
Brown, L.M. 2009. 10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully-Prevention (And Why We Should). Rethinking Schools, 23(3). Reprinted with permission of Education Week.
Curriculum
Brown, L., Dupont, J., & Jepson, L. 2009. A Facilitator’s Guide to Becoming A Muse. Waterville , ME: Hardy Girls Healthy Women
Research in Progress:
I am currently finishing edits on Packaging Boyhood (co-authored with Sharon Lamb and Mark Tappan), to be published by St. Martin’s Press in fall, 2009.
Educational Projects in Progress:
Developing a national media literacy campaign with Hardy Girls Healthy Women, tentatively called Get Real 2010.
I continue to work via Hardy Girls Healthy Women, to develop regional coalitions and to develop programs in the “rim counties”, the poorest counties in the state.
Advising Eve Ensler on the curriculum for a new girl-focused production called I Am An Emotional Creature.
6. Paper Presentations
Conference talks (peer reviewed):
Brown, L. (August, 2008). Guy love: Messages about masculinity and friendship in buddy movies. In S. Lamb, chair, Packaging Boy Power in Media: From Superman to Superbad. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Brown, L., Lamb, S. & Tappan, M. (March, 2008). Packaging boyhood: Media, marketers, and the production of masculinity. In A. Howard, Chair, Packaging Culture, Identity, and Difference. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
Brown, L., Lamb, S. & Tappan, M. (April, 2009). Packaging boyhood: Identity, marketing, and media. Paper presented at Beyond Borders: Masculinities and Margins, 17th Annual Conference on Men and Masculinities, Montréal, Quebec.
Invited talks:
Packaging Girlhood:
Real Life Real Talk workshop, Portland, ME, August 19, 2005
Real Life Real Talk community talk, Portland, ME, Sept. 18, 2008
Bangor Book Festival, Bangor, ME, Oct. 4, 2008
National Girls Collaborative Conference, UM, Orono, Oct. 10, 2009
New Hampshire School Counselors Association Conference keynote and workshops, Concord, NH,
Oct. 27, 2008
Bryn Mawr Community Forum Distinguished Speaker Series, Bryn Mawr, PA, Nov. 3, 2008
7. Student Supervision:
I supervised 4 independent study students (ED 492C) and 16 practicum students (ED 351C), all of who worked with me to continue girls coalition groups in local middle schools and continued to develop the curriculum for those groups.
I advised 3 first year students.