Subject Area(s):
Dr. Shelton's research is interview- and focus group-based and often incorporates queer and feminist theories into examinations of secondary education. Previous studies have considered early-career high school teachers' efforts to construct public identities as LGBTQ+ allies and the intersections of sexuality, gender, race, and socioeconomic class in teachers' and students' classroom experiences. Current research projects include considering teachers' understandings of LGBTQ+ ally identity and ally work in sociopolitically conservative school spaces, researchers' reflexivity through interview transcription practices, focus group participants' verbalized membership affiliations, and pedagogical approaches in qualitative methodology courses.
Skills and Expertise:
- LGBT
- Gender Studies
- Feminist Theory
- Queer Theory
- Qualitative Methods
- Qualitative Research.
