Michelle Fine

Michelle Fine is Professor of Social/Personality Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she has taught since 1990. Her research focuses on urban high schools and, more recently, women in prison. Her books include: Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class and Gender with Urban Youth (with Lois Weis, Teachers College Press, 2000); Speedbumps: A Student Friendly Guide to Qualitative Research (with Lois Weis, Teachers College Press, 2000); The Unknown City: Poor and Working Class Young Adults in Urban America (with Lois Weis, Beacon Press, 1998); Off-White: Society, Culture and Race (with Linda Powell, Lois Weis and Mun Wong, Routledge, 1996); Becoming Gentlemen: Race and Gender Politics in Law School (with Lani Guinier and Jane Balin, Beacon Press, 1996) andFraming Dropouts (SUNY Press, 1991).