Dr. Gavin Weiser
associate professor
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DEG Degarmo Hall 331
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Biography
S. Gavin Weiser is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations and coordinator of the College Student Personnel Administration master's program. Gavin is also core faculty at ISU in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as affiliated faculty with Latin American/Latino/a Studies.They also also currently serve as the interim director of the graduate school. Gavin earned their Ph.D. in Foundations of Education & Inquiry from the University of South Carolina’s College of Education. Beyond this,they also completed a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. Gavin worked for several years as a university administrator in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs at Carolina focusing on social justice and diversity work. Prior to this Gavin was an outdoor educator for Princeton University, leading youth on backpacking and other outdoor adventure activities.
Current Courses
EAF 463.001 College Students & Their Cultures
EAF 523.002 Critical Historical Foundations of Education
EAF 413.001 Critical Social Theory & Resistant Knowledge Projects
EAF 599.008 Dissertation Research
Teaching Interests & Areas
Bridging the practitioner/researcher divide. Bringing arts-based educational research methods into the classroom.
Research Interests & Areas
Identity, Agency, & Social Movements, Sociology of Education, Ethics of qualitative research, Activism within and beyond the academy, critical university studies
Ph D Educational Foundations & Inquiry
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
Other Women & Gender Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
MA Higher Education & Student Affairs
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
BA Interdisciplinary Humanities
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
Outstanding College Researcher Award
College of Education
2023
College of Education Outstanding Teacher Award
College of Education
2023
Outstanding College of Education Service Award
College of Education
2022
Emerging Faculty Leader Academy
NASPA
2021
Engaged Scholar Initiative
Campus Compact
2021
STAR Award - Promotion of Diversity
ISU Division of Student Affairs
2021
Profile of Social Change
Florida State University - Center for Leadership & Social Justice
2015
Communal Support Award
Progressive Black Men, Inc
2007
Servant Leader Award
Tau Kappa Epsilon
2007
Grants and Contracts
The Education Now Lab
Anna Smith, Kristin Anne Carlson, Natatlie Shaheen, Stephen Weiser.
Provost's Office ARCS. 2025 - 2026
Building Sense of Belonging, Community, and Leadership Capacity of LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in the Midwest
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
Illinois State University. August 2022
Community Engagement Learning Grant
Stephen Weiser.
Center for Civic Engagement. May 2021
Portrait of a Pandemic
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
NASPA Region IV-East. February 2021
New Faculty University Research Grant
Stephen Weiser.
Illinois State University. May 2019 - June 2019
Graduate Civic Scholar
Stephen Weiser.
University of South Carolina. August 2016 - May 2017
Book, Chapter
Hitting the Books: Scholars and Practitioners Partnering for Intersectional Education
Stephen Weiser, Tashay Dennie, Mallory Jallas.
(2024), Intersectionality and Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (3rd ed.), Peter Lang
Towns & Gowns: A Study in Crisis Leadership
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino, Paige Buschman.
(2024), X, Volume X: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Education: School-University-Community Research, Information Age Publishing
Scholar Participant Phantasmagoria: A Creative Reflection on Research Under Crisis
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
(2022), The Kaleidoscope of Lived Curricula: Learning Through a Confluence of Crises 13th Annual Curriculum \& Pedagogy Group 2021 Edited Collection, Information Age Publishing
Sexual Identity Development Among College Students
Stephen Weiser, Alyssa Stasicky, Crystal Jones, Meaghan Lynch.
(2022), Theory of College Student Development: Integration of Knowledge, Skills, and Application
The Desert Flowers Always Bloom Following the Monsoon: Activism, School Boards, and COVID-19
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
(2022), Snapshots of History: Portraits of the 21st Century Pandemic, Information Age Publishing.
Striving for equity in pandemic times: The administrator’s role in the shift to online education in K-12 and higher education spaces
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
(2021), 199-223, 10.4018/978-1-7998-6533-9.ch011, Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises, IGI Global
Queerly growing sideways in a carceral state: The intersections of queer lives & the police state
Stephen Weiser, Travis Wagner, Toniqua Mikkel.
(2020), Queering Public Health and Public Policy in the Deep South
Integrating Civil Liberties into Middle Grades World History: Colin Kaepernick and Ancient Mesopotamia
Tim Monreal, Stephen Weiser.
(2019), Extending the Ground of Public Confidence
Life is a game, so fight for survival: The neoliberal logics of colonialism within the Battle Royale franchise
Travis Wagner, Stephen Weiser.
(2019), Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina, Springer
More than meets the eye: The permanence of segregation in South Africa and South Carolina
Stephen Weiser.
(2019), Higher Education in Africa & the United States: The Black Experience
Big u knows best: Patronizing queer campus culture
Stephen Weiser, Travis Wagner.
(2017), 7, 67--78, A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE, Peter Lang
Listening to LGBTQ communities, practicing LGBTQ justice.
James DeVita, Allison Anders, Stephen Weiser.
(2015), The Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, Cognella Academic Publishing
“What’s Black and Queer and Read All Over
Aaron Baker, S. Gavin Weiser.
Case Studies for Student Development Theory. Routledge.
Journal Article
Everything is fine: Converging pandemics, resistance, And sustaining wokeness in education
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser, Lumen Stasicky.
Social Alternatives, 43 (1), 32-21, (2025)
Fierce love and resistance: LGBTQIA2S+ youth thriving in the in- between spaces
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
9 (1), (2025)
Flying a plane, while also building the plane in the air: A covid-19 composite narrative for educational re/newal
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
American Journal of Qualitative Research, 9 (1), (2025), 10.29333/ajqr/16031
Reproductive futurity: Policy, pop-culture, and praxis
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 47 (1), 1-22, (2025), 10714413.2025.2450579
Activism as leadership: Supporting progressive activists within our work
Stephen Weiser.
The Journal of Campus Activities Practice and Scholarship, 5 (2), 23--37, (2023), 10.52499/2023013
Like a Pig in Mud: Rejecting the Manicured Boundaries of the Patriarchy
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino, Alyssa Stasicky.
Journal of School Leadership, 33 (2), 214-236, (2023), 10.1177/10526846221149218
Queer digital forensics as methodology for documenting queer culture at higher education institutions
Travis L Wagner, Stephen Weiser.
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 12 (4), 102–132, (2023), 10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.4.102
“We're not going back to what was before, and we don’t know what the future will look like either”: exploring the voices and images of educational administrators in crisis
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal, 15 (2), (2022), 10.26209/td2022vol15iss21633
Taking a Pause to Consider a Radical New: Or All (Re)envisioning is Science-Fiction Work G Weiser Planning & Changing 50 (3/4), 257
Stephen Weiser.
Planning & Changing, 50 (3/4), 257-260, (2021)
The administrative response to the COVID crisis: Voices from the field.
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
Frontiers in Education, 6, (2021), https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.617857
The desert flowers always bloom following the monsoon: Activism, school boards, and COVID-19.
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
American Educational History Journal, (2021)
Who leads the leaders? K-12 and higher education leadership under duress
Stephen Weiser, Linsay DeMartino.
Curriculum in Context, 46 (2), 15-21, (2021)
Failing with proof: Considerations of queerly failing in visual research
Stephen Weiser.
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 43 (2020), 1--20, (2020), 10.1080/10714413.2020.1759350
Double jeopardy: (Trans)versing Higher Ed as Queer Trans Advocates
Stephen Weiser, Travis Wagner, Myles Lawter.
Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 15 (3), (2019), 10.1080/15505170.2018.1542359
An Appreciative Approach to Diversity Training
Jenny Bloom, Stephen Weiser, Vincent Buonocore.
Journal of Appreciative Education, 1 (1), (2012)
Presentations
The educational administrative response to COVID-19 in the United States: A phenomenological study transitioned to photovoice
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
American Educational Research Association (AERA), Online, April, 2021
The educational administrative response to COVID-19 in the United States: A phenomenological study transitioned to photovoice
Linsay DeMartino, Stephen Weiser.
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Online, April, 2021
Saturdays for the Boys?: Higher Education, Social Media, & Bodies that Belong
Stephen Weiser, Travis L Wagner.
American Educational Studies Association, cancelled, October, 2020
Are Saturdays Still for the Boys?: Old Row, Social Media, and the Persistence of Normativity in Southern Universities
Stephen Weiser, Travis L. Wagner.
Social Media & Society Conference, Online, July, 2020
Artsmatter: More than Human in Arts-Based-Research
Stephen Weiser.
ICQI, cancelled, June, 2020
Photovoice as Method for Teaching Methods
Stephen Weiser.
ICQI, Online, June, 2020
Photovoice Methods as a Means of Accessing Educational Justice
Stephen Weiser.
NASPA, cancelled, March, 2020
Queer Subjects, Queer Representations, Queer Resistance to the MAGAstream
Stephen Weiser.
SIUE Symposium on Women and Gender, cancelled, March, 2020
It’s Time for Arts & Resistance! College-aged Artistic Activism
Stephen Weiser.
National Women's Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November, 2019
Affective Relationality & More Than Human Activist Research
Stephen Weiser.
AESA, Baltimore, MD, October, 2019
Precarious Choreography: Activists and Academics in Collaboration
Stephen Weiser.
AESA, Baltimore, MD, October, 2019
The Affective Reality of Posthuman Educational Research
Stephen Weiser.
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Educational Conference, Nashville, IN, September, 2019
Teaching Method(ology): Photovoice as Praxis
Stephen Weiser.
Photovoice Workshop and Conference for Academic Researchers, Muncie, IN, June, 2019
Moving with the Art(ists): Improvisation, Research, & Zines
Stephen Weiser.
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Champaign, IL, May, 2019
Life Beyond the Closet: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality.
Stephen Weiser.
Lunch n’Unlearn Series, Normal, IL, January, 2019
Challenging toxic masculinity to create a safer collegiate experience for students, faculty, and staff
Stephen Weiser.
Towson University Student Affairs Professional Development Conference, Baltimore, MD, January, 2018