Child Development — ϲ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:58:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Courtney Mauldin /faculty-experts/courtney-mauldin/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:21:48 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=186498
Academic Program Area Focus: Educational Leadership, Literacy Education, Selected Studies in Education, Teaching and Curriculum

 

Courtney Mauldin is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Leadership Department in the ϲ School of Education. Her interdisciplinary research and scholarship illuminates how youth and girls of color use arts-based and literacy practices as methods for leadership, identity construction, and reimagining schools and communities.

With arts-based methods and inquiry central to both her research and teaching, Dr. Mauldin’s recent projects focus on Envisioning Black Girl Futures (CNY Humanities Corridor Award) alongside educators and community leaders as well as using critical arts-based approaches with youth to co-construct educator resources, influence school policy change, and integrate youth voice into the school setting in meaningful and innovative ways.

Her most recent publications are featured in Frontiers in Education, Journal of Educational Administration and History with chapter contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Education Research as well as the Routledge text, Standing with Youth, Family, and Community Educational Leaders in School Leadership: Case Studies for Educational Equity and Justice.

Currently, Dr. Mauldin facilitates the Central New York Educators of Color Dialogue and runs the teen book club, The Breedlove Readers which she co-founded in ϲ, NY in Spring 2020.

She maintains an active membership in the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) and serves as the Arts-Based Educational Research Program Chair within the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

 

]]> Stefanie Pilkay /faculty-experts/stefanie-pilkay/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 19:18:12 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=171687 Before joining ϲ, Pilkay served as an adjunct lecturer at both Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work in New York, NY since 2018 and the University of Tennessee, College of Social Work in Knoxville, TN since 2015, teaching research methodology, trauma theory and practice, lifespan and neurophysiological development, and human behavior in the social environment. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Atlanta, GA since 2017. She has served as a court-appointed special advocate for Anderson County Tennessee Juvenile Court. In 2014, she was a forensic social worker for the Community Law Office, Knox County Public Defender’s Office. Specific to her research experience, Pilkay has served since 2018 as an early investigator trainee on “Developmental Origins of Health and Disease,” an international cross-discipline research study with collaborations between Canada and the U.S.

Pilkay’s research interests include trauma, early-life adversity, inter-generational transmission of adversity, adversity and trauma mechanisms for risk and resilience in human development. She is published in the Journal of Social Work Education, the Journal of Social Service Research, and has given several peer-reviewed presentations, most recently at the 64th Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education in Orlando, FL, Connecting for Children’s Justice Conference in Murfreesboro, TN, the International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect in Prague, Czech Republic, and the 73rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in New York, NY. Pilkay’s work has been supported by the National Institute of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and the University of Tennessee Health and Science Center.

Pilkay earned a Ph.D. in social work with a minor in graduate statistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2017. She holds a M.S. in social work, an evidence-based interpersonal practice major with trauma treatment graduate certification, and a B.S. in social work with majors in honor’s social work and psychology, earned in 2014 and 2013, respectively, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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