Research interests |
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Caitlin Cahill is a community-based researcher committed to interdisciplinary engaged scholarship. Her research interests include young people's well-being, globalization, citizen participation in community development, critical race and feminist theory, community-based and participatory action research approaches, and social justice. This year Dr. Cahill has been named the Lowell Bennion Public Service Professor.
Currently she is working with a team of youth researchers participating in the Growing Up in Salt Lake City project. Together they are developing two participatory research documentary projects: 1) Stereotyping and racism in the schools and 2) Equal access to higher education for undocumented students.
Check out http://www.fed-up-honeys.org to see an example of a participatory action research project Caitlin developed with a team of young women researchers from New York City.
Dr. Cahill is currently an affiliate editor for the journal Children, Youth, and Environments ; on the editorial board of Children's Geographies; and a member of the Participatory Action Research Collective at the City University of New York.
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Selected publications |
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Cahill, C. & Torre, M.E. (forthcoming 2007) Beyond the journal article: Representation, audience, and the presentation of participatory research. In Sara Kindon, Rachel Pain and Mike Kesby (Eds.) Connecting People, Participation and Place: Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: . Routledge.
Cahill, C.; Rios-Moore, I.; Threatts, T. (forthcoming 2007) Open Eyes-Different Eyes: Community-based Participatory Action Research. In Cammarota, J. & Fine. M. (eds) Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. Routledge.
Cahill, C. (2007) Including excluded perspectives in participatory action research. Design Studies, 28(3).
Cahill, C. (2007) The personal is political: Developing new subjectivities in a participatory action research process. Gender, Place, and Culture, 14 (3), 267-292
Cahill, C. & Hart, R. (Eds.) (2007) Rethinking the Boundaries of Civic Participation by Children & Youth in North America. Children, Youth and Environments Vol 17, 2. (Editors introduction).
Cahill, C. (2006) ‘At risk' ? The Fed Up Honeys re-present the gentrification of the Lower East Side. Women Studies Quarterly (special issue The Global & the Intimate edited by Geraldine Pratt & Victoria Rosner), Vol 34, issues 1 & 2, 334-363.
Cahill, C. (2004) Defying Gravity: Raising consciousness through collective research. Children’s Geographies Vol. 2, 2, 273-286.
Cahill, C.; Arenas, E. ; Contreras, J.; Jiang, N.; Rios-Moore, I.; & Threatts, T. (2004) Speaking back: Voices of young urban womyn of color. Using participatory action research to challenge and complicate representations of young women. In Anita Harris (ed) All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity New York: Routledge, 233-244.
Cahill, C. (2000) Street Literacy: Urban teenagers’ strategies for negotiating their neighborhood. Journal of Youth Studies. Vol. 3, No. 3, 251-277.
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Teaching |
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Youth Participation in a Globalizing World 5962 003
Community Nonprofits 5450/6450
Community & Environmental Change 5730/6730
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