Research & Evaluation

EJP Evaluation

Capturing Events as They Happen
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Scholarship on EJP

This page lists talks and publications by EJP volunteers and students about EJP.  When possible, it includes links to the papers and photographs from the events. If you have an entry to add, contact Andrea at olinger3 at illinois dot edu.

2012

Webber, Martha, Petty, Audrey, Haber, Baron, Sayre-Roberts, Amy, & Holding, Cory. (2012, February-March). Writing from the Inside: Pedagogical Concerns for Teaching Creative Writing in Prisons. Panel at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

  • Description: “How can teaching creative writing to incarcerated individuals promote social justice? How is our pedagogy informed by teaching in prison classrooms? What ethical considerations should we keep in mind when publishing works written or inspired by this vulnerable population? In this panel, instructors for the Education Justice Project, a program that primarily serves men from the Chicago area, will discuss their experiences working with students on their stories, poems, and memoirs.”

2011

Panel, “What I’ve Learned from Teaching in a Prison: Education Justice Project,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL, November 2011

  • Panelists: Hugh Bishop, Audrey Petty, Agnieszka Tuszynska, William Sullivan (moderator)

Ginsburg, Rebecca. (2011, November.) The University of Illinois’ Education Justice Project’s Evaluation Program. Paper presented for a panel on Assessment Tools at the National Conference on Prison Higher Education, Seattle, Washington.

Ginsburg, Rebecca . (2011, August). The Education Justice Project’s Chicago Youth Violence Initiative. Paper presented at the Association of Black Sociologists’ Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

Sullivan, William. (2011, May). RPM and the Sustainable Prison Landscape. Paper presented at the Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.


Ginsburg, Rebecca. (2011, May). Prison Education and the Reasonable Person Model.Paper presented at the Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Scott, Rob, Fullilove, Willie, Muhammad, Tyrone Farrakhan, Nava, Erick, Saucedo, Luis, Walker, Earl, & Wells, William. (2011, April). Analysis of trends in New York Times reporting on education in 2010. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual College of Education Graduate Student Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.

Pinkert, Anke. (2011, April).  Rethinking the Humanities though Higher Education in Prison. Paper presented at the Midwest Symposium of German Studies, Urbana, IL.

Panel, “Literacy, Incarceration, and the Making of Teachers”:

  • Berry, Patrick. (2011, April). Literacy narratives and prison relations. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
  • Colson, Dan. (2011, April.) From the cellblock to the quad: Geographies of prejudice. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
  • Holding, Cory. (2011, April.) Configuring conviction, performing in prison. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.

Berry, Patrick. (2011, April.) Time and doing time with literacy narratives. Paper presented for a panel on Prison Writing: Pedagogy, Representation, Research and Action at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.

Berry, Patrick. (2011, January). Time and doing time with literacy narratives. Paper presented at the Modern Language Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

2010

Ginsburg, Rebecca. (2010, November). Locked up and locked out? Higher education and searching for the American Dream in prison. Paper presented at the University Y Friday Forum, Urbana, IL.

Ginsburg, Rebecca, & Kurhajec, Anna. (2010, November). Participants in the roundtable on the value of higher education in prisons, American Studies Association, San Antonio, TX.

Panel, “What I’ve Learned from Teaching in a Prison: Education Justice Project,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL, November 2010

  • Panelists: Mark Micale, Dannie Otto, Anke Pinkert, James Kilgore (moderator)

Ginsburg, Rebecca. (2010, October).  Education Justice Project: Family and Community Engagement. Paper presented at the Symposium on Higher Education in Prison: Strategies for Action, Urbana, IL.

Berry, Patrick. (2010, October). More than words: Prison matters and materials. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Council for Teachers of English, Orlando, FL.

Berry, Patrick. (2010, May). Virtual-less home: Online compositions from prison. Paper presented at the Computers and Writing conference, West Lafayette, IN.

Berry, Patrick. (2010, May). Reading, writing and recidivism: Rhetorics of literacy in the prison classroom. Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.

Dace, Tracy, Ginsburg, Rebecca, & Kurhajec, Anna. (2010, April).  The Challenge and Promise of Prison Higher Education Programs. Papers presented at the Diversity and Democracy, Conference, the Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Urbana, IL.

Kurhajec, Anna, & Patel, Rushika. (2010, April). Social Justice and Higher Education from the Prison Industrial Complex. Panel at the 2nd Annual Undergraduate and Graduate Social Justice Conference, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.

  • Description: This is a special panel highlighting thirteen incarcerated University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign students from Danville Correctional Facility who are participating in the Education Justice Project. In a competitive process open to all students they submitted essays describing what social justice means to them in the context of education and incarceration. The panel organizers, who are also involved in the project, will be presenting a video in which the students present their own work.
  • Presenters: Mr. Earl M. Walker, Johnny Page, Mr. Robert Matthew Reed, Daniel Graves, Leroy Brown, Robert Garite, Larry Brent, Jr., Tyrone F. Muhammad, Otilio E. Rosas, William Wells, Michael Brawn, David Staples, Carlton Gray


Berry, Patrick. (2010, March). Prison business: A contextual approach to teaching professional writing. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Louisville, KY.

Berry, Patrick. (2010, March). Literacy promises: Teachers, composition, and the prison. Paper presented at the Qualitative Research Network of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY.

Panel, “Reflections on Prison Teaching: Education Justice Project,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL, February 2010

  • Panelists: Jenni Lieberman, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Rob Scott

2009

Colson, Dan. (2009, November). Teaching in the panopticon: Prison literature and pedagogy. Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention, Atlanta, GA.

Panel, “What I’ve Learned from Teaching in a Prison: Humanities at Danville Correctional Center,” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Urbana, IL, October 2009

  • Panelists: Dan Colson, Anna Kurhajec, Rachel Rasmussen, William Sullivan, Katie Walkiewicz

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