Tammy L. Hodo, Ph.D. Pronouns, She, Her, Hers

How to Engage in Difficult Conversations on Identity, Race, and Politics in Higher Education addresses the polarized political and racialized climate in the United States. This practical resource offers faculty and staff much needed direction related to hosting difficult conversations as they occur in the classroom, residence halls, orientation events, and coffee shops around college and university campuses. Chapters provide insights, case examples, interactive exercises, and "how-to" tools and… Show more

How to Engage in Difficult Conversations on Identity, Race, and Politics in Higher Education addresses the polarized political and racialized climate in the United States. This practical resource offers faculty and staff much needed direction related to hosting difficult conversations as they occur in the classroom, residence halls, orientation events, and coffee shops around college and university campuses. Chapters provide insights, case examples, interactive exercises, and "how-to" tools and tips to hosting these conversations, covering issues such as immigration, White supremacy in academia, women’s rights, the Black Lives Matter movement, trans rights, reproductive rights, and cancel culture, among many others. This resource is designed to better prepare instructors, faculty, higher education staff and administrators to enter into these hard conversations with an improved awareness of contentious issues and how to facilitate, and potentially de-escalate, discussions that are already occurring. Show less

•Belgrave, Faye & Hodo, Tammy L. (2019). “Theoretical and Methodological Issues of Studying the African American Family.” In African American Families: Research, Theory, and Practice (pp 180-210), Belgrave, Faye, Goings, Trenette C. & Jones, Heather. Cognella Academic Publishing, CA.

Hodo, Tammy L. & Belgrave, Faye (2019). “The Urban Experiences of African American Families.” In African American Families: Research, Theory, and Practice (pp
320-350), Belgrave, Faye, Goings, Trenette C. & Jones, Heather. Cognella Academic Publishing, CA.

This qualitative study examines how minority faculty experience working at a Predominately White Institute (PWI) of higher learning. Conducting interviews with minority faculty, African, African American, Caribbean and Hispanic, provides insight into how they negotiate within a space they were once historically excluded from due to polices and practices. Interviews were conducted with over forty minority faculty members at a large urban research university. The article contains excerpts from… Show more

This qualitative study examines how minority faculty experience working at a Predominately White Institute (PWI) of higher learning. Conducting interviews with minority faculty, African, African American, Caribbean and Hispanic, provides insight into how they negotiate within a space they were once historically excluded from due to polices and practices. Interviews were conducted with over forty minority faculty members at a large urban research university. The article contains excerpts from the interviews and utilizes Critical Race Theory to allow participants to share their experiences in academia in their own words. Show less

Phillip W. Cook and Tammy L. Hodo's book is a must-read for anyone wanting to debunk, question, or gain insight about non-stereotypical attitudes about female sexual aggression against men. These two authors turn traditional sexual stereotypes against the norm and expose a darker side in society." (Georgen Guerrero, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of the Incarnate Word, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice)