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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Robert A. Rhoads was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research focused primarily within the broad domain of Social Sciences, with specific attention to subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Linguistics and Language, Education, and Communication.

Themes central to their work covered Higher Education Governance and Development, Critical Race Theory in Education, Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics, Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Multilingual Education and Policy, and Global Education and Multiculturalism.

Their publication record included these notable papers:

  • "Whales Tales" On the Run: Anonymizing Ethnographic Data in an Age of Openness (2020) in Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
  • Cross-Ethnic Friendships among Ethnic Minority and Han Students at a Chinese University (2021) in Comparative Education Review
  • Index (2020) in Stanford University Press eBooks

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Robert A. Rhoads comprised:

  • Katalin Szelényi
  • Xiaoyang Sun
  • Jenny Jong-Hwa Lee
  • Xuyan Wang

Their published work appeared repeatedly in venues such as Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Comparative Education Review, and Stanford University Press eBooks.

Robert A. Rhoads received recognition as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Faculty socialization as cultural process : a mirror of institutional commitment

    William G. Tierney;Robert A. Rhoads

  • Enhancing Promotion, Tenure and Beyond: Faculty Socialization as a Cultural Process. ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 6.

    William G. Tierney;Robert A. Rhoads

  • The university, state, and market : the political economy of globalization in the Americas

    Robert A. Rhoads;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • The Dynamic Tensions of Service Learning in Higher Education: A Philosophical Perspective.

    Adrianna Kezar;Robert A. Rhoads

  • Virtually unlimited classrooms: Pedagogical practices in massive open online courses

    Brit Toven-Lindsey;Robert A. Rhoads;Jennifer Berdan Lozano

  • The Student-Initiated Retention Project: Theoretical Contributions and the Role of Self-Empowerment

    David Emiliano Zapata Maldonado;Robert Rhoads;Tracy Lachica Buenavista

  • Global Citizenship and the University: Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World

    Robert A. Rhoads;Katalin Szelényi

  • Freedom's Web: Student Activism in an Age of Cultural Diversity

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • FACULTY ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE CHALLENGE TO UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AT RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

    Jenny J. Lee;Robert A. Rhoads

  • Student Activism, Diversity, and the Struggle for a Just Society.

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • The World Bank, support for universities, and asymmetrical power relations in international development

    Christopher S. Collins;Robert A. Rhoads

  • In the Service of Citizenship: A Study of Student Involvement in Community Service

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • Deconstructing Whiteness as Part of a Multicultural Educational Framework: From Theory to Practice.

    Anna M. Ortiz;Robert A. Rhoads

  • Learning from the Coming-Out Experiences of College Males.

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • The Open Courseware Movement in Higher Education: Unmasking Power and Raising Questions about the Movement's Democratic Potential

    Robert A. Rhoads;Jennifer Berdan;Brit Toven-Lindsey

  • Higher Education Reform as a Social Movement: The Case of Affirmative Action

    Robert A. Rhoads;Victor Saenz;Rozana Carducci

  • Citizenship in a Global Context: The Perspectives of International Graduate Students in the United States

    Katalin Szelényi;Robert A. Rhoads

  • Whales Tales, Dog Piles, and Beer Goggles: An Ethnographic Case Study of Fraternity Life.

    Robert A. Rhoads

  • Student Protest and Multicultural Reform: Making Sense of Campus Unrest in the 1990s.

    Robert A. Rhoads

Frequent Co-Authors

William G. Tierney
William G. Tierney University of Southern California
Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres University of California, Los Angeles
Adrianna Kezar
Adrianna Kezar University of Southern California

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