Natalie Guice Adams

Associate Professor, Instructional Leadership and Social Foundations of Education
Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies
307C Graves Hall
(205)-348-1161
nadams@ua.edu
Appointed in 2000

Assistant Dean of the Graduate School
102 Rose Administration Building
(205)348-8283

Recent Courses Taught:

BEF 641: Seminar in Social Foundations of Education
AEL 602: Educational Leadership and Schooling Restructuring
AEL 620: Curriculum: Theory and Practice
BEF 512: Church, State, and School
BEF 534: Multicultural Education

Areas of Research:

Gender Issues in Education
Gender Discourses in Society

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1994, Curriculum Theory
M.Ed., University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1988, Gifted Education
B.S., Louisiana State University, 1984, English Education

Professional Experiences:

Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, The University of Alabama, 2007 – Present.

Associate Professor of Instructional Leadership and Social Foundations of Education, Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies, The University of Alabama, 2000 – Present.

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 1997-2000

Assistant Professor of Middle Level Education, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 1994-1997

Middle School Teacher, 1984-1992

Selected Publications:

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2007). Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She is Changing the World (Invited book review). Teachers College Record http://www.tcrecord.org. March 28, 2007.

Adams, N. & Adams, J. (March 2006). “Bad Work is Better than No Work”: Examining the Gendered Assumptions of Welfare-to-Work Training Programs. Journal of Critical Educational Policy Studies http://www.jceps.com, 4(1), (on-line journal, no page numbers).

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2006). Short Skirts and Breast Juts: Cheerleading, Eroticism, and Schools. Sex Education, 6(2), 121-133.

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2006). Liberties and Lipstick: The Paradox of Cheerleading as a Sport. In B. Lampman & S. Prettyman (Eds.), Learning Culture Through Sports: Exploring the Role of Sports in Society., pp. 66-74. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Education.

Adams, N., Deever, B., Shea, C. & Liston, D. (2nd ed.). (2005). Learning to Teach: A Critical Approach to the Field Experience. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Adams, N., Schmitke, A., and Franklin, A. (2005). Tomboys, Dykes, and Girly Girls: Interrogating the Subjectivities of Adolescent Female Athletes. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 33(1& 2): 17-34.

Adams, N. (2005). Growing up Female. (Book review of Odd Girl Out, Queen Bees and Wannabe’s, Girl in the Mirror, and Girls will be Girls.) NWSA Journal, 17(1), 206-211.

Adams, N. (2005). Fighter Girls and Cheer Girls: Disrupting the Discourse of “Girl Power” in the New Millennium. In P. Bettis & N. Adams (Eds.), Geographies of Girlhood: Identity In-Between (pp. 101-113). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (Eds.) (2005). Geographies of Girlhood: Identity In-Between. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.

Adams, J. & Adams, N. (2004). Dilemmas and Contradictions in a Job Readiness Training Program: Conformity or Critical Awareness? International Journal of Vocational Education and Training 12,(1): 72-90.

Adams, N. & Bettis, P. (2003). Cheerleader! An American Icon. New York: Palgrave Press.

Adams, N. & Bettis, P. (2003). Commanding the Room in Short Skirts: Cheering as the Embodiment of Ideal Girlhood. Gender and Society, 17(1): 73-91.
Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2003). The Power of the Preps and a Cheerleading Equity Policy. Sociology of Education, 76(2): 128-142.

Selected Presentations:

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2007). Playing Hard: Women Athletes, Title IX and the Masculine Model of Sports. Paper presented at the Globalization and Education Conference, Spokane, Washington.

Bettis, P. & Adams, N. (2006). Falling Female Athletes: Creating a Third Space for Women Athletes. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association conference, Spokane, WA.

Adams, N. & Bettis, P. (2006). “Niceness Bleeds You Dry”: Women Professors Resisting the Role of the Good Mother. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association conference, Spokane, WA.

Adams, N. & Bettis, P. (2006). Cleavage, Buns, and Poms: Cheerleading as an Erotic Space. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association conference, Spokane, WA.

Martin, K. & Adams, N. (2006). Will Casinos Save the Reservation: A Study of the Impact of Gaming on Education in the USET Tribes. Paper presented at the annual American Educational Research Association Conference, San Francisco, California.

Adams, N., Bettis, P., Prettyman, S. & Sternod, B. (2005). Doing Gender in the 21st Century: the Place of Gender Studies in the Social Foundations of Education. Paper presented at the annual American Educational Studies Association conference, Charlottesville, VA.

Adams, N. (2005). 100 Years of Cheerleading Controversies. Invited presentation to the Organization of Spirit Industry Providers. Las Vegas, Nevada.