Director's Publications

The Missing Story of Ourselves Photo and Story:Vivyan and Heather Adair

Books

"Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America," Book, Temple University Press, 2003.

"From Good Ma to Welfare Queen; A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography, and Culture,"  Book, Garland Publishing, 2000.

Selected Peer Reviewed Publications

"Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education," Harvard Educational Review, Vol 71, Number 2, Summer 2001, 217-239.

"Remarkable Journeys: Poor, Single Mothers Accessing Higher Education," On Campus With Women: Journal of the Association of American Colleges & Universities.  Fall 2004. 

"Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Class and Poverty in America," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 27, Number 2, Winter 2002: 451-473.

"US Working-Class/Poverty-Class Divides," Sociology (UK), Vol 39, Number 4, Dec 2005: 817-834.

"Class Absences: Cutting Class in Feminist Studies," Feminist Studies, Vol 31, Number 3, Fall 2005: 575-603.

Photo Exhibit

A nationally touring exhibit of 50 framed, museum quality, color photographs coupled with narratives created by students who are welfare eligible, single parents changing their lives through the pathway of higher education.  The installation presents a unique view of poverty from insiders’ perspectives and reframes the cultural (de)valuations of poor single parents vis-à-vis family, work and higher education in the United States today. View the Gallery Guide.