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Dr. William Armaline

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Connecticut

MacQuarrie Hall 513
408.924.2935
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Professor Bio

William is a multidisciplinary scholar-activist committed to building environmental and political-economic sustainability.  Originally trained in as a high school teacher, and later as a sociologist and ethnographer, Dr. Armaline strives to produce relevant and accessible work that bridges the gap between theory and praxis in and out of the classroom.  He has published and taught formally in the areas of education, social science, and human rights, and has an extensive history of community engagement.  His current activities include serving as a founding faculty member and journal editor for the Transformative Studies Institute—a radical think tank and emergent graduate free-school developed for the pursuit of social justice.  Though most of Dr. Armaline’s career has been spent exploring inequality through the experience of homeless and incarcerated youth, he has recently published work focusing on pedagogy and radical political-economy.  Generally, his professional areas of interest include social justice, inequality and youth, prison abolition, critical pedagogy and public intellectualism, the philosophy and practice of human rights, fundamental questions of sustainability, and critical ethnographic research.

Recently, William began as director of the Sacco and Vanzetti Foundation [SVF].  More on SVF, an emergent scholarship program to support work that protects civil rights and dissent (democracy), can be found at: www.saccoandvanzettifoundation.org.

 

Sample Publications

Armaline, William T.  (2009).  “Thoughts on Anarchist Pedagogy and Epistemology,” in Anarchist Studies Reader, Luis Fernandez, Anthony Nocella, Randall Amster, Abraham DeLeon, and Deric Shannon (Eds.), pgs (--).  NY, NY: Routledge. (Available in print, February 2009)

Armaline, William T.  (April 2005).  “’Kids Need Structure’:  Negotiating Rules, Power, and Social Control in an Emergency Youth Shelter.”  American Behavioral Scientist, 48(8): 1124-1148.

Armaline, William T. and Donald Levy.  (2004).  “No Child Left Behind:  Flowers Don’t Grow in the Desert.”  Race and Society, 7(1):  31-62.

 

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