Danielle Docka-Filipek is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Justice, Culture, & Social Change at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where she teaches core courses in sociology and women, gender, & sexuality studies, as well as electives that focus primarily on inequalities and institutions. Her research interests include inequalities and pandemic impacts in higher education, feminist pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning, whiteness and racial discourse in the contemporary U.S., race/gender and mental health, and social welfare policy.
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Minnesota, 2013
Graduate Certificate, Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota, 2013
B.A., Sociology/Anthropology & Women’s Studies, Knox College, 2002
Areas of Focus
- Race/class/gender & institutionalized inequalities
- Feminist theory/praxis/activism
- Critical perspectives on mental health/illness
- Culture, globalization, & neoliberalism
- Family/marriage
- Teaching, learning, & higher education
- Public/applied sociology & community engagement/participatory action research
- Ethnographic, interview, discourse/textual analysis, comparative historical, and survey methods
Courses Taught
- Race, Ethnicity, & Racism
- Global Social Problems
- Sociological Foundations
- Poverty, Wealth, & Inequality
- Race & Class in the US
- Reimagining the Family
- Race, Class, Gender, & Reproductive Justice
- Introduction to Sociological Practice
- Organizing Across Race, Class, Gender, & Age
- Sociology of Gender
Selected Publications
Docka-Filipek, Danielle & Lindsey Stone. Jun. 2021. “Twice a Housewife: On Academic Precarity, ‘Hysterical’ Women, Faculty Mental Health, and Service as Gendered Care Work for the ‘University Family’ in Pandemic Times.” Gender, Work, & Organization: 1-22. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gwao.12723
Docka-Filipek, Danielle & Andria Timmer. Jan. 2019. “Religious Neoliberalism ‘On the Ground:’ Nonprofit Authorities’ View on Religiosity, Devolution, & Remoralization in Poverty Relief.” Administrative Theory & Praxis 41(3) [special issue on critical theory and nonprofit studies].
Docka-Filipek, Danielle. Jan. 2018. ‘Teaching Naked’ in Late Capitalism: Instructors’ Personal Narratives and Classroom Self-Disclosure as Pedagogical Tools.” In Teaching Economic Inequality and Capitalism, eds. Kristin Haltinner and Leontina Hormel. New York, NY: Springer.
Docka-Filipek, Danielle. Sept. 2017. “Masculinity and ‘Generational Poverty’ in a Faith-Based Homelessness Advocacy Program: Race and Class Viewed Through the ‘Lenses of Gender.’” In The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem: Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality, eds. Marla Kohlman & Dana Krieg. Bingley, UK: Emerald.