Originally from Chicago, Professor Alexander began her association with higher education at Grinnell College in Iowa. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a minor in Africana Studies from Grinnell she pursued a Master’s degree in African American studies from UCLA. Her studies focused on representations of race relations in science–fiction television. After accumulating six straight years of education and a heap of student loans, Professor Alexander decided to take a break from being a student. Not wanting to stray too far away from academia, she accepted a position as an Admission Counselor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and shortly thereafter, her undergraduate Alma Mata offered her a position as Assistant Dean of Admission – Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment. After two years Professor Alexander returned to the classroom by enrolling in the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Later she was offered and accepted a fellowship at Willamette University in Oregon where she completed her dissertation entitled “Race on First, Class on Second, Gender on Third, and Sexuality Up to Bat: Intersectionality and Power in Major League Baseball, 1995–2005.” In addition to finishing her dissertation, Professor Alexander taught courses such as “Spike Lee Films” and “Baseball as America.”
During the 2007-08 school year, Professor Alexander is teaching courses for the former Interdisciplinary Studies Department including IS 2710: Perspectives on Ethnicity and IH 3810: Discovering the American Past. Currently, she is editing her dissertation for publication as well as working on several articles exploring various aspects of popular culture.
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