The Thought Project - Episode 10 - Interview with Michelle Fine

This week’s guest Dr. Michelle Fine, a distinguished professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center. She is also co-founder of the Public Science Project at the Graduate Center. Her primary research interest is the study of social injustice: when injustice appears as fair or deserved, when it is resisted, and how it is negotiated by those who pay the most serious price for social inequities. She studies these issues in public high schools, prisons, and with youth in urban communities, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Fine is known for her groundbreaking research through the framework of Participatory Action Research and Studies of Social Injustice and Resistance. Her work at the public science project is emblematic of this approach of traditional subjects of research become partners in the research.