Assistant Professor

Personal Web Site

http://www.sfu.ca/~ozlem/

Email: ozlem_sensoy@sfu.ca

Selected Publications

books:

Sensoy, Ö. & Stonebanks, C. D. (Eds). (in press, 2009). Muslim Voices in School: Narratives of Identity and Pluralism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishing.

articles:

 

Sensoy, Ö. & Marshall, E. (in press, 2009). Save the Muslim girls! Rethinking Schools.

 

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

 

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.J. (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).

 

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

 

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

 

chapters:

 

Sensoy, Ö. (in press, 2009). Ickity ackity open sesame: Learning about the Middle East in Images. In B. Subedi (Ed.), Rethinking Curricular Knowledge on Global Societies. Information Age Publishing.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (in press, 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. New York: Routledge.

 

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.). (2003). Who are the Turks? A handbook for teachers (pp. 121-181). New York: American Forum for Global Education.

other:

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

 

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

Public Presentations/Conferences

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.J. & 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.

 

Chinnery, A., Sensoy, Ö., & Walton, G. (2008, Nov.). Challenging “studied ignorance.” National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

 

DiAngelo, R.J. & Sensoy, Ö. (2008, Nov.). The Tyranny of the Opinion Card when Challenging Social Inequity in Education. National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

 

Parhar, N., Parmar, G., & Sanghera, R., & Sensoy, Ö. (2008, Nov.). Beyond “heroes and holidays”: Using digitized ethnic group archives for developing critical learning modules. National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), New Orleans, LA.

 

Sensoy, Ö. & Sanghera, R. (2008, May). Seventh Graders Tell it Like it is: Photo Essays on Living with Racism, Classism, and Sexism. Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, May). ”Hey, I won’t lighten up!”: Why Cartoons & mass media images are more than “just entertainment”. Fourth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, July 29). Invited Presentation. Imagining Islam: On TV and in Textbooks. Graduate students seminar. Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, July 30). Invited Presentation. Imagining Islam: On TV and in Textbooks. Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures/ Aga Khan University: Joint Summer Institute. Burnaby, BC: Simon Fraser University.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2008, January 18). Invited Presentation: Thinking of Islam and Muslim Students: Inclusion, Access, and Accommodation. BC Centre for International Education. Vancouver, BC.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Nov.) Invited Lecture: Unveil yourselves and dance, Muslim women!: How much am ‘eye’ willing to “reasonably accommodate”?. The Paulo & Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Nov.) Session Chair. Session: Islamic Feminisms. Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montreal, Canada.

 

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, June) Learning to think about cultures and societies. Social Science Education Consortium (SSEC). Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Apr.) Invited Paper Presentation. How popular culture and social justice meet at education’s doorstep. Presentation to the Masters in Teaching program, The Evergreen State College. Olympia, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Feb.) Invited Presentation. Why Complexity Matters in Educating the Children of the World. BC School Trustees Association, Forum: Educating the children of the world in BC classrooms, Vancouver, BC.

Bingham, C., Chinnery, A., Sensoy, Ö., & van der Wey, D. (2007, Jan.) Session Organizer. Session: Preparing primarily White teachers for diverse classrooms. Annual meeting of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education [theme: Teacher Education and Social Justice] University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

Sensoy, Ö. (2007, Jan.) Why Fiona has no accent, and other mysteries: Using pop culture stereotypes to further a social justice approach in teacher education. Teacher Education & Social Justice. Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

Sensoy, Ö. (2006, Nov.) Invited Presentation. Furthering social justice through popular culture. Presentation for panel Educating Children and Youth in Human Rights. Centre for Education, Law, and Society. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

Sensoy, Ö. & DiAngelo, R.J. (2006, April). White female narratives of Muslim oppression. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2005, April). The relationship between textbook and newspaper representations of Arabs and Muslims. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montréal, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (2005, April). Session Organizer. Session: Do you see who I see? Striving for Democratic ideals through Multicultural Research. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montréal, Canada.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, April). Session Organizer. Session: Dilemmas of Conducting Race Related Educational Research American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA. [Division G]

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, April). Photo elicitation Methodology for Conducting Race Related Educational Research. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, April). A Photo-Elicitation Study on Preservice Teacher Knowledge about Islamic Cultures. American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2004, Jan.). Invited Presentation. Islamic Civilizations in Social Studies Curricula: What Teachers Must Know. Washington State Social Studies Education conference. Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003, Nov.) Session Organizer. Session: Inequity and Achievement in the Classroom. National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) [theme: From Rhetoric to Reality: Student Achievement in Multicultural Societies], Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003, Nov.). Arabs and Muslims in the United States: Lessons from Media and Textbooks. National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME), Seattle, WA.

Sensoy, Ö. (2003, June) Invited Presentation. Islamophobia: The Arab & Muslim “World”. National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI), Seattle, WA.

 

 

 

Leadership/Faculty & Community Service

Research Grants

Courses

Graduate Student Supervision

Masters

Doctoral

Raj Sanghera, Ph.D. student (2008 - current)

 

Dilek Kayaalp (Ph.D.).: Turkish youth and social exclusion in a cross-comparative context.Senior Supervisor: Jo-Anne Dillabough (Member: Kogila Adam-Moodley), University of British Columbia, Dept of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education.