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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Dr. Christina Wright Fields
Associate Professor of Education
Bio
Christina Wright Fields, PhD, is a dedicated educator, activist-scholar, and researcher, who broadly explores the issues of race, gender, and equity within educational and administrative contexts. Her research, grounded in critical qualitative methodologies, amplifies the voices and experiences of minoritized educators, administrators, and students in both K-12 and postsecondary educational settings. Dr. Fields has published extensively on topics including culturally responsive pedagogy, race and administrative practices, and global education. With over a decade of experience, Dr. Fields has a distinguished background in supervising student and professional staff, fostering partnerships between student affairs and academic affairs, overseeing college preparation programs, and developing innovative multicultural and international initiatives.
Dr. Fields is an active member of several professional associations in higher education and teacher education, including the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and the New York Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (NYACTE). She has presented her research at numerous national and international conferences, including those hosted by the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), ACPA, American Educational Research Association (AERA), and the National Council on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE). Her contributions have been recognized with several prestigious awards, including NASPA's Region II Distinguished Excellence in Diversity Award, the ACPA Supporting Latino/a Student Success Award, and NASPA's African American Knowledge Community KUUMBA New Professionals Award. Recently, Dr. Fields served as co-chair of the Global Diversity Committee for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) and participated in the Longview Global Teacher Education Fellowship.
Education
PhD, Higher Education Administration Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Dissertation: A Case Study of Urban African-centered Charter School Personnel Development and Support of a College-Preparatory Ethos.
MS, Higher Education Administration with Enrollment Management, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
Thesis: Assessment of Institutional Diversity and Development of Ethnic Studies Program at Buena Vista University.
BS, Biology with African American Studies and Chemistry minors, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
I approach my scholarship and creative activities through an intersectional and analytical lens that connects the power of storytelling and counternarratives with theoretical foundations. My scholarship and creative activities center Black lived experiences, equity and ethics in administration, and social justice in education.
Selected Publications
Wright Fields, C., Howell, G., & Jones, S.M. (2024). Truth be Told: Utilizing Music to (Re)define the Narrative of Black Women Educators’ Lived Experiences. Black Educology Mixtape Journal. 2(1). Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/be/vol2/iss1/10
Wright Fields, C. & Conyers, A. (2024). (Up)Lifting as We Climb: Reflections of Black Faculty. The Intersections of Critical Pedagogy, Critical Literacy, and Social Justice: Toward Empowerment, Equity, and Education for Liberation. Rowman and Littlefield.
Wright Fields, C., Early, S. & Howell, G. (2024). Using our transformational voices: A depiction of instructional approaches integrating positionality, lived experiences, and social change. In C. McGregor & S. Bedi (Eds.), Diversity leadership in education: Embedding practices of social justice. McGill-Queen's University Press.
*Rifenburgh, R. & Wright Fields, C. (2023). O'Hosea Williams. In A. Jones (Ed.), African-American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment (p. 385). ABC-CLIO.
Gathers, D. & Wright Fields, C. (2023). Culturally relevant pedagogy analysis of cultural dispositions in teacher education. In S.C. von Hohenberg (Ed.) Dispositional development and assessment in teacher preparation programs (pp. 120-135). IGI Global.
Wright Fields, C. & Overby, K. (2022). #BlackInTheIvory: Utilizing Twitter to explore Black female experiences in the academy. In C.J. Porter, V.T. Sulé and N.N. Croom (Eds.) Black Feminist Epistemology, Research, and Praxis: Narratives in and through the Academy (pp. 107-114). Routledge.
Wright Fields, C. & Conyers, A. (2022). An Argument for administrative critical consciousness in public administration. Public Integrity, 24(2), 414-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2022.2034340
Wright Fields, C. & Kelly, M. (2021). Expect the unexpected: (Re)Defining the landscape of equity work during COVID-19. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 6(2), A1146.
Wright Fields, C. & Kelly, M. (2021). Challenging niceness as womanhood in teacher education. In T.A. Fowler & W.S.A., Duoethnographic encounters: Opening spaces for difficult dialogues in times of uncertainty (pp. 133-144). DIO Press, Inc.
Wright Fields, C., & Power-Carter, S. (2021). Writing While Black: The Power of Words and Student's Self-Empowerment. Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, 1(1), 24-38. https://doi.org/10.21423/jaawge-v1i1a28
Conyers, A. & Wright Fields, C. (2020). A Critical race theory analysis of institutional racial paralysis in organizational culture. Public Integrity, 23(5), 484-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2020.1832365
Wright Fields, C. (2020). In the spirit of Ubuntu: Educating and leading through an African-centered paradigm. Journal of Education Human Resources, 38(2): 173-193. https://doi.org/10.3138/jehr-2019-0013
Kelly, M. & Wright Fields, C. (2020). Unlocking the doors: Opening spaces for inclusive pedagogy and practice in teacher education. In C.K. Clausen & S.R. Logan, Integrating Social Justice Education in Teacher Preparation Programs. (pp. 1-28). IGI Global.
(*) denotes student collaboration
Selected Presentations
Kelly, M. & Wright Fields, C. (2020, February). In your shoes: The use of collaborative ethnography to develop cultural humility in teacher education programs. Workshop presented at American Association of Colleges of Teacher Educators (AACTE). Atlanta, GA.
Mawhinney, L., Porterfield, L., Bartley-Carter, D., Rinke, C., & Wright Fields, C. (2024, April). Imaging where we're going as we fly: Unshackling methodological chains through photovoice. In L. Porterfield (Chair), Seeking new suns: Murmurations on the visual, affective, geographic, and sonic possibilities of collaborative liberatory methodologies [Symposium]. American Educational Research Association (AREA), Philadelphia, PA.
Mawhinney, L., Rinke, C., Porterfield, L. & Wright Fields, C. (2023, June). The Storied experiences of Teachers of Color through Photovoice. Session presented at International Visual Studies Association. International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA). Nairobi, Kenya.
Allison, K., Wright Fields, C., & Early, S. (2018, April). Get Me Bodied: Using Embodied Pedagogy in Social Justice Education. Student Affairs Administrator in Higher Education (NASPA) Conference. Philadelphia, PA.
Wright Fields, C., Vasquez, B., & Martinez, S. (2017, May). Nuestra Identidad Y Experiencias (Our Identity and Experiences): Understanding Latino cultural identity in high school students and its influences on college-going. Program at National Council for Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) Conference. Fort Worth, TX.
Howell, G., Campbell, T., Overby, K., and Wright Fields, C. (2017, March). Creating and Sustaining our Village: Fictive Kinship and Black Female Doctoral Students. Program at American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Conference. Columbus, OH.
Wright Fields, C. (2014, April). A Case Study Exploring an Urban African-Centered Charter School's Personnel's Transmission and Support of a College Preparatory Ethos. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Awards and Honors
NASPA Region II Distinguished Excellence in Diversity Award, 2018, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)
NASPA Excellence Award Grand Bronze Honoree, 2017, International, Multicultural, Cultural, Gender, LGBTQ, Spirituality, Disability, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)
Certificate of Appreciation (Diversity Equity, and Multicultural Affairs), 2015, Indiana University Bloomington
Support Latino/a Student Success Award, 2015, American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
African American Knowledge Community KUUMBA New Professionals Award, 2014, Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA)
Multicultural Network Student of the Year Award, 2013, American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
Katzner Graduate Student Research and Professional Development Fund Award, 2013, Bowling Green State University
Higher Education Administration Student Contribution Award, 2013, Bowling Green State University
