Presented By: Spectrum Center
Oakland University School of Education and Human Services Winter Lecture Series
Therese Quinn and Erica Meiners - Discipline
The final lecture in the Oakland University School of Education and Human Services Winter Lecture Series features speakers Therese Quinn, Associate Professor, Art Education School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Erica Meiners, Professor, Education & Women's Studies Northeastern Illinois University.
Therese Quinn was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland during
2009 and has written about Finnish education for Re-
thinking Schools. She coedits the Teachers College
Press Series, Teaching for Social Justice, serves as
president of the School of the Art Institute Chicago’s
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Chapter, and writes about whatever she wants for
Yliopisto, the magazine of the University of Helsinki.
Erica Meiners is involved with prison abolition and re-
form movements, and queer and immigrant rights orga-
nizing. She is the author of four books, and her scholar-
ship is in a range of publications. With others, she is a
starter, and still a teacher and a coordinator, of an alter-
native high school for men and women who have been
incarcerated, and she collaborated to develop Women
and Prison: A Site of Resistance, and TAME: Teachers
Against Militarized Education.
Therese Quinn was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland during
2009 and has written about Finnish education for Re-
thinking Schools. She coedits the Teachers College
Press Series, Teaching for Social Justice, serves as
president of the School of the Art Institute Chicago’s
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
Chapter, and writes about whatever she wants for
Yliopisto, the magazine of the University of Helsinki.
Erica Meiners is involved with prison abolition and re-
form movements, and queer and immigrant rights orga-
nizing. She is the author of four books, and her scholar-
ship is in a range of publications. With others, she is a
starter, and still a teacher and a coordinator, of an alter-
native high school for men and women who have been
incarcerated, and she collaborated to develop Women
and Prison: A Site of Resistance, and TAME: Teachers
Against Militarized Education.