Professor Lisa Scott

Assistant Professor

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Email:lscott@qc1.qc.edu

 

Lisa Scott, Ph. D., graduated in May 2004 with a doctorate from Claremont Graduate University located in Claremont, California. Her research areas include critical community and cultural studies, immigration and its impact on education and educational policy initiatives, and Jamaican immigrant children and their issues of identity. She is presently conducting further research on the educational contributions of other West Indian immigrant populations in the State of New York, and California in addition to continuing immigrant research in Great Britain.

 

Recent Presentations:

Scott, L. (2002, April). Testimonials of West Indian women of resistance. How Then Shall We Live: Empowering Our Connected Communities Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA,

 

Scott, L. (2001, June). The criminalization of black youth in American public schools.

The Construction of Identities and the Power of Representations, Sociology in Education, University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA.

 

Research:

 

1999-2001                   Researcher, Homeless Outreach Programs Education and Hug House with CGU community education research cohort.

2002-2003            Used narrative inquiry methods to evaluate the pre-migratory perceptions and expectations of Jamaican immigrants in New York State and Nottingham, England.