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Lorna
Rivera
Ph.D.,
Sociology, Northeastern University
Associate
Professor, Sociology and Community Planning
Office:
W-4-144-21
Phone
number: 617-287-7388
lorna.rivera@umb.edu
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Professor Rivera is on sabbatical leave during the 2008-2009 academic year
Professor Lorna Rivera has been teaching undergraduate courses in community planning, Women’s Studies, Latino Studies, and sociology in the College of Public & Community Service
since 2000. Her areas of specialization include community studies, critical & feminist pedagogy, adult basic literacy education, urban ethnography, and the sociology of education. Dr. Rivera is also a Research Associate at the Mauricio Gaston Institu
te for Latino Public Policy & Community Development.
In 2003, Dr. Rivera was awarded a National Academy of Education (NAE) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-2005) to write the book, “Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy & Poverty
in the Post-welfare Era” (2008, University of Illinois Press). Currently, Dr. Rivera is a Principal Investigator at the Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Policy and is working on two research projects: A qualitative study of the Chelsea Family L
iteracy Project that is funded by the National Center for Family Literacy (2005-2008) and a study, “The Impact of Participatory Health Literacy on People of Color with Low Literacy Skills” that is funded by the National Center on Minority Heal
th Disparities/National Institutes on Health (2007-2010).
Dr. Rivera is active in efforts to improve the quality of and access to adult literacy for women, and to promote women's literacy as a tool for social change. She is a founding member of
the Board of Directors for WE LEARN (Women Expanding/Literacy Education Action Resource Network), a nonprofit organization that promotes women’s literacy, and she is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Massachusetts Coalition for Adult E
ducation. Dr. Rivera is the faculty director of the Latino Leadership Opportunity Program at UMass-Boston.
Recent Publications:
Lorna Rivera (2008). Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy & Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era. University of Illinois Press.
Lorna Rivera & Nicole Lavan (2007). Qualitative Evaluation of the Chelsea Toyota Family Literacy Program: Final Report to the Chelsea Public Schools. Boston, MA: Gaston Institu
te, University of Massachusetts-Boston. 55 pages.
Lorna Rivera. (2005). “Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance in Homeless Shelters.” In Contemporary Sociology. V 34 n 6: 623-624.
Lorna Rivera. (2004). “Welfare Reform and Women’s Education.” In The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice. Issue 19. Boston, MA: New England Literacy
Resource Center.
Lorna Rivera. (2004). “Literacy for Change: Latina Adult Learners and Popular Education.” In R. Ybarra & N. Lopez (Eds.), Creating Alternative Discourses in the Educati
on of Latinos & Latinas: A Reader. New York: NY: Peter Lang Publishers.
Lorna Rivera. (2004). “Learning Community: Popular Education and Homeless Women.” In: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 32 (1-2): 196—212.
M. Kennedy, L. Rivera, & C. Tilly. (2003). “Looking at Participatory Planning in Cuba ...Through an Art Deco Window.” In Progressive Planning. Special Issue on Marx
ism, Socialism, and Progressive Planning. No. 156: 4—8.
Lorna Rivera. (2003). “Changing Women: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Mothers and Popular Education.” In Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 30( 2), 31—51
.
Lorna Rivera. (2003). “Analyzing Public Policy Issues: Bilingual Education Reform.” In The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice. Issue 16. Boston, MA : New
England Literacy Resource Center.
Evaluates the following competencies:
- Critical Learning Seminar: Critical Inquiry; Dimensions of Learning
- Social Difference
- Critical Readings I—III
- Community Needs & Resource Analysis
- Strategy & Proposal Development I—II
- Public & Community Action I—II
Teaches the following courses:
- Sociology of Oppression
- Latina Women in the US (cross-listed with Women's Studies Latino Studies)
- The Sociological Imagination
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