Contact: ozlem@sfu.ca

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Twitter: @ProfessorOzlem

Associate Faculty, Dept. of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, SFU

Affiliate Faculty, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, History Department, SFU

Teaching Schedule

2013-summer: Educ 438 and Educ 855

2013-fall:         Educ 438 and Educ 382

2014-winter:    non teaching semester

Selected Publications

books (4):

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2012). Is everyone really equal? An introduction to key concepts in social justice education. New York: Teachers College Press. ***2012 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) for outstanding contribution to scholarship in the social foundations of education***

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (Eds). (2011). Rethinking popular culture and media. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools Ltd. ***2012 recipient of a Skipping Stones magazine Honor Award in recognition of exceptional contributions to children’s literature***

Sensoy, Ö. & Stonebanks, C. D. (Eds). (2009). Muslim voices in school: Narratives of identity and pluralism. Boston: Sense Publishing.  ***2010 winner of the National Association for Multicultural Education’s Philip C. Chinn multicultural book award***

journal articles (18):

O’Neill, D.K., Guloy, S. & Sensoy, Ö. (forthcoming). Strengthening methods for assessing students’ metahistorical conceptions: Initial development of the Historical Accounts Differences survey. The Social Studies.

Sensoy, Ö. (2012). “Ball Licky-Licky!”: Pedagogical strategies for interrogating pop culture images. [Online] Films for the Feminist Classroom, 4(1), (Article 3).

Sensoy, Ö. (2012). Mad men of the Middle East go “Mwaaaaaaaahhrrrr!!!”: How popular culture teaches contempt for Middle Eastern men. Our Schools Our Selves, 21(4), 87-104.

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (2012). Getting slammed: White depictions of interracial dialogues as arenas of violence. Race Ethnicity and Education. DOI:10.1080/13613324.2012.674023

Parhar, N. & Sensoy, Ö. (2011). Culturally relevant pedagogy redux: Teachers’ conceptions of their work and its challenges. Canadian Journal of Education, 34(2), 189-218.

Sensoy, Ö. (2011). Picturing oppression: Seventh graders’ photo essays on racism, classism, and sexism. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24(3), 323-342.

Stonebanks, C.D. & Sensoy, Ö. (2011). Schooling identity: Constructing knowledge about Islam, Muslims, and people of the Middle East in Canadian schools. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 71-88.

Sensoy, Ö., Sanghera, R., Parmar, G., Parhar, N., Nosyk, L., & Anderson, M. (2010). Moving beyond “dance, dress, and dining” in Multicultural Canada. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 12(1), (Online, Article 5).

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (2010). “OK, I get it! Now tell me how to do it!”: Why we can’t just tell you how to do critical multicultural education. Multicultural Perspectives, 12(2), 97-102.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (2010). Missionary girl power: Saving the “Third World” one girl at a time. Gender and Education, 22(3), 295-311.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (2009/2010). Save the Muslim girls! Rethinking Schools, 24(2), 14-19. ***Selected for the PBS documentary The Light in Her Eyes (2012), Recommended Reading list***

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009). We don’t want your opinion: Knowledge construction and the discourse of opinion in the equity classroom. Equity & Excellence in Education, 42(4), 443-455.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009). The same old hocus pocus: Pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 30(2), 151-164.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2009). Developing social justice literacy: An open letter to our faculty colleagues. Phi Delta Kappan, 90(5), 345-352.

Sensoy, Ö. (2008). TV Teacher: Is Little Mosque on the Prairie good for Canadian Muslims? Taboo: A Journal of Education and Culture, 12(2), 43-54.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007). Pedagogical strategies for disrupting gendered Orientalism: Mining the binary gap in teacher education. Journal of Intercultural Education, 18 (4), 361-365.

Stonebanks, C.D. & Sensoy, Ö. (2007). Did we miss the joke, again? The cultural learnings of two Middle East professors for make benefit insights on the glorious West. Taboo: A Journal of Education and Culture, 11(1), 41-51.

Sensoy, Ö, & DiAngelo, R. (2006). “I wouldn’t want to be a woman in the Middle East”: White female narratives of Muslim oppression. Radical Pedagogy, 8(1), (Online, Article 4).

book chapters (12):

Sensoy, Ö. (forthcoming). Beyond fearing the savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the classroom. In E.W. Ross (Ed.), The Social Studies Curriculum: Purposes, Problems, and Possibilities, 4^th edition. NY: SUNY Press.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2013). One world: Understanding the discourse of benevolent girlhood through critical media literacy. In B. J. Guzzetti & T. Bean (Eds.), Adolescent literacies and the gendered self: (Re)constructing identities through multimodal literacy practices (31-39). NY: Routledge.

Sensoy, Ö. (2012). Middle Eastern Americans, education of. In J. A. Banks (Ed), Encyclopedia of diversity in education (vol. 3, pp. 1498-1503). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Sensoy, Ö. (2010). “Mad man Hassan will buy your carpets!”: The bearded curricula of evil Muslims. In  J.L. Kincheloe, S.R. Steinberg, & C.D. Stonebanks (Eds.), Teaching against Islamophobia (pp. 111-134). New York: Peter Lang.

Sensoy, Ö. (2010). Ickity ackity open sesame: Learning about the Middle East in images. In B. Subedi (Ed.), Rethinking curricular knowledge on global societies (pp. 39-55). Information Age Publishing.

Sensoy, Ö. (2009). It’s all in your name: Seeing ourselves in historical and cultural context. In E. Heilman, R. Fruja, & M. Missias (Eds.), Social studies and diversity teacher education: What we do and why we do it (pp. 155-158). New York: Routledge.

Sensoy, Ö. & Stonebanks, C. D. (2009). Introduction: Voice and other acts of insubordination. In Ö. Sensoy & C. D. Stonebanks (Eds.), Muslim voices in school: Narratives of identity and pluralism (pp. ix-xx). Boston: Sense Publishers.

Sensoy, Ö. (2009). Where the heck is the “Muslim world” anyways? In Ö. Sensoy & C. D. Stonebanks (Eds.), Muslim voices in school: Narratives of identity and pluralism (pp. 71-85). Boston: Sense Publishers.

Sensoy, Ö. (2009). Kill Santa: Religious diversity and the winter holiday problem. In S. R. Steinberg (Ed.). Diversity and multiculturalism: A reader (pp. 321-332). New York: Peter Lang.

Case, R., Sensoy, Ö., & Ling, M. (2008). Approaching a global/ multicultural perspective. In R. Case (Ed.), The Canadian anthology of social studies, 2nd ed. (pp. 161-170). Vancouver: Pacific Educational Press.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007). Social education and critical media literacy: Can Mr. Potato Head help challenge binaries, essentialism, and Orientalism? In D. Macedo & S. R. Steinberg (Eds.), Media literacy: A reader (pp. 593-602). New York: Peter Lang.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003). Introduction to studying and teaching Turkish literature, history & culture in translation In J. McCarthy, C. McCarthy, T. Halman, Ü. Bates, & Ö. Sensoy (Eds.), Who are the Turks? A handbook for teachers (pp. 121-181). New York: American Forum for Global Education.

Media Interviews/ Editorials:

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2012, June 30). Is everyone really equal? Radio Interview with Sylvia Richardson for Latin Waves. CJSF Grassroots Radio. latinwavesmedia.com

Sensoy, Ö. (2012, April 13). Print Interview. Vancouver grade 7 student film says being white disguise. Article by Neal Hall, The Vancouver Sun, Education section.

Sensoy, Ö. (2012, March 24). Print Interview. Little Mosque on the Prairie: concept was bigger than the show. Article by Vinay Minon, The Toronto Star, Entertainment section.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R. (2011, December 6). Radio Interview (30 mins). Is everyone really equal? Interview with Eddie Moore Jr. and Daryl Miller for Intersections Radio. blogtalkradio.com

Sensoy, Ö. (2011, November 15). Print Interview. SFU’s gender imbalance brought to Senate. Article by Esther Tung for The Peak.

Sensoy, Ö. (2011, September 15). Print Interview. Young, Muslim, and othered: Despite famous Canadian ‘tolerance,’ growing up Muslim in Canada isn’t easy. Article by Leanne Kris for Capilano Courier.

Sensoy, Ö. (2011, July 11). Radio Interview (10 mins). Schlock proof yourself. Interview with Rick Harp. Urban Nation. Streetzfm.ca

Sensoy, Ö. (2011, June 30). OpEd. Schlock proof your child: Three ways to help kids build their best defense against bad media. The Tyee.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (2011, Apr 14). Op/Ed. Power down for Screen Free Week. Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Windsor Star, and Regina Leader-Post

Sensoy, Ö. (2010, Mar 24). Op/Ed. Free speech? Hardly. The Vancouver Sun, A15.

Bingham, C. & Sensoy, Ö. (2006, Dec 4). Op/Ed. There’s nothing ‘multicultural’ about violence against women. The Vancouver Sun, p A7.

Sensoy, Ö. (2006, May 17). Op/Ed. Asian heritage month. The Vancouver Sun, A17.

Public Presentations/Conferences (since 2009):

Sensoy, Ö. (May 2, 2013). Invited Presentation. Beyond fearing the savage: Responding to Islamophobia in the classroom. The Committee for Action on Social Justice (CASJ), British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF). Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (November 9, 2012). Panelist in session: Multicultural Teacher Education in Korea, Canada, and the United States. Center for Multicultural Education, Twentieth Year Celebration and Book Launch of the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (November 1, 2012). In search of genie magic: Representational discourses of the Orientalist genie/harem seductress in popular culture. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (April 17, 2012). Panelist. Snapshots from ‘Post-racial’ and ‘Post-colonial’ Americas: A Transnational Conversation. AERA Committee on Scholars of Color session. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (April 14, 2012). Picturing oppression: Vancouver seventh graders making movies to “talk back” to racism, sexism, and classism. Session: Rethinking Youth Studies and Research: Indigenous, Immigrant and Islamic Youths’ Ambivalent Belonging in Multicultural Vancouver and The Making of Activist Research [with Dilek Kayaalp, UBC; Michael Marker, UBC; Maryam Nabavi, UBC; Handel Wright, UBC]. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. & Semenec-Michalak, P. (October 1, 2011). Critical media literacy for social justice education. Northwest Teachers for Social Justice, annual conference, Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (September 22, 2011). Genies and victims: Essentializing Muslim girls and women through everyday texts. Violence in the Lives of Muslim Girls and Women: A CIHR Invitational Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. & Manavipour, S. (September 15, 2011). Pencils, books, and prayer: Experiences of Muslim youth in public schools. Invited talk for Westcoast Sheen. Rhizome Café, Vancouver.

Sensoy, Ö. (April, 2011). The sway and magic of the Arabian Nights: Contemplations on a genealogy of shuttlecocks and genies. Session: Saints and Sluts: Racialized Pedagogies of the Good Girl/Bad Girl in Popular Youth Culture. [with Elizabeth Marshall, SFU; Rochelle Brock, IU Northwest; Jeanine Staples, Penn State; Discussant: Annette Henry, UBC; Chair: Lisa Weems, Miami Univ.]. SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.

O’Neill, D.K., Guloy, S., MacKellar, F., Sensoy, Ö. & Byrne, E. (April, 2011). Retooling the teaching of history: Refining a unit targeting conceptions about differing historical accounts. SIG: Teaching History. American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.

Sensoy, Ö. (March 3, 2011). Invited Presentation: International Women’s Day Events. Learning to think about masculinity and femininity in popular culture representation. Burnaby Mountain Secondary School. Burnaby BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (November 3, 2010). The Selling of “Girlie Feminism”: Gender and Media in the Classroom. Pacific Cinémathèque, Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (October 22 2010). Panelist: Critical thinking and civic engagement. BC Peace and Global Educators, Provincial Specialist Association (PAGE-PSA). Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (July 27 2010). Genie magic: Representations of Islamic culture in school and societal curricula.  Expressions of diversity: A summer programme on Muslim cultures. Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University & The Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 20, 2010). Picturing oppression: Seventh graders’ photo essays on living with racism, sexism, and classism. University of Washington, Bothell.

Sensoy, Ö. (May 25, 2010). Saving Muslim girls: The curricular construction of a deficit discourse. University of Washington, Tacoma.

Sensoy, Ö., O’Neill, D.K., Guloy, S., & Sanghera, R. (2010, May 3). Understanding Complex Social and Cultural Histories in a Changing World: A Multi-Method Study of Nationhood in a Diverse High School Social Studies Class. Division G/ Section 2. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2010, May 2). One World: Benevolent girlhood. Session: Saints and Sluts: Racialized pedagogies of the good girl/bad girl in global youth culture (with Jeanine Staples, Lisa Weems; Discussant: Annette Henry, Chair: Rochelle Brock). SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver, CO.

Sensoy, Ö., Stonebanks, C.D., Mir, S., & Ali-Khan, C. (2009, Oct. 29). Muslim voices in school: Narratives of identity and pluralism. National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). Denver, CO.

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (2009, June). Missionary Girl Power: Saving the “Third World” one Girl at a Time. Ninth annual Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference, Concordia and McGill Universities, Montreal, PQ.

DiAngelo, R. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009, April). “That’s just her opinion”: Challenging opinion discourse about social justice. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009, April). Disrupting youth: Film and cultural teaching machine. SIG: Media, Culture, & Curriculum. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Marshall, E. & Sensoy, Ö. (2009, March). The same old hocus pocus: Pedagogies of gender and sexuality in Shrek 2. Gender & Education, London, UK.

For complete list of presentations please go to my website.