Politics of health and education
policy
Grassroots organizations and social movements
Participatory democracy/civic
engagement, especially in urban politics
Current
Positions
Associate
Professor
of
Political
Science, Brooklyn College,
CUNY
January 2010-present
As Assistant Professor, September 2005-December
2009
Visiting
Scholar, New York
University Wagner School of Public Service
December 2004-Present, New York, NY
Working with the Ford Foundation-funded Leadership
for a Changing World program, analyze issues of
race in social change organizations.
Co-Founding
Executive Director, Burmese
Refugee Project
January 2001-Present, NYC and Northwestern
Thailand
Help to set project agenda, goals, and methods.
Prepare budgets, write proposals and secure
grants, administer funds, evaluate full-time
project managers’ progress, and write newsletter.
Conduct ethnographic and survey research and data
analysis on impact of the Project and refugees’
well-being and sociopolitical participation. Using
a participatory model of community development,
the Project helps over 100 Shan refugees in
northwest Thailand access education, health, and
legal services.
Su,
Celina.
2010. Marginalized stakeholders and performative
politics. Critical
Policy Studies, 4(4): 362-383.
Su,
Celina.
2010. We call ourselves by many names:
Storytelling and inter-minority
coalition-building. Community Development Journal,
45(4):439-457.
Ospina,
Sonia
and Celina Su. 2009. Weaving color lines: Race,
ethnicity, and the work of leadership in social
change organizations. Leadership, 5(2):137-170.
- To be reprinted in David Collinson, Keith
Grint, and Brad Jackson, editors. Leadership.
Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. In press,
due out in March 2011.
Su,
Celina.
2007. "Cracking silent codes: Critical race theory
and education organizing."Discourse: Studies
in the Cultural Politics of Education.
28(4):531-548.
Selected
Honors
Mrs. Giles Whiting Award for Excellence in
Teaching, 2007
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2001-2005
Courses
Taught
Politics of Health Policy
Comparative Social Policy
Community Power
Analysis
Comparative
Participatory
Democracy and Social Movements