• Socio-cultural influences in schools, gendered identity in adolescent girls, diversity, race, class and gender in adolescents

Education

• Ph.D Educational Theory and Social Foundations, 1994,
  University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
• 15 graduate hours in gifted and talented curriculum, 1985 - 1986, Arkansas State University,
  Jonesboro, AR.
• M. Ed. Secondary Education, 1983, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
• B. A. Political and Social Thought of the Western Hemisphere, 1977, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
  

Professional Experience

• 2003 - present, Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning, Washington State
  University, Pullman, WA.
• 2001 -2002, Affiliate Faculty, Department of Teaching, Learning and Leadership, University
  of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
• 1997 - 2001, Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education, School of Educational
  Studies, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK..
• 1996-97, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
  Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. (on Leave of Absence from Auburn
  University for the academic year).
• 1994 - 1996, Assistant Professor, Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology
  Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
• 1992 - 1993, Graduate Teaching Assistant in Educational Theory and Social Foundations,
  University of Toledo, Toledo, OH.
• 1991 - 1992, Graduate Research Assistant with the University of Toledo's EXCEL program for
  high achieving youth of color. Developed and taught a Civil Rights curriculum,
  supervised students on a two week bus trip through the South to study the Civil
  Rights Movement.
• 1987 - 1990, Secondary Social Studies Teacher, Montgomery County Schools, Blacksburg, VA.
• 1984 - 1987, Secondary Social Studies Teacher and Coordinator of the High School Gifted
  Program, Nettleton Public Schools, Jonesboro, AR.

Awards/Services to WSU

• Outstanding Mentor, Presented by the Women and Leadership Forum, March
  2005. (student nominated)
• Presenter, WSU Preview for High School Juniors, March 27, 2004
  Presenter, Multicultural Perspectives on Dress and the Body Tier 3 Diversity
  Class in the Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles, March
  24, 2004.
• Consultant for WSU Student Services. Developed a handout for WSU Faculty
  Presenters to improve their presentations pedagogically for WSU Preview for
  High School Juniors, January 2004.
• Presenter, GRACe (Gendering Research Across Campus) Symposium, February
  13, 2004

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Course Coordinator and Instructor for Classroom Management for both
  Elementary Program (T & L 310) and Secondary Program (T& L 328)
• Graduate: T & L 535: Gender, Power and Education
  

Selected Publications, Books and Book Sections

• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N. (2005), Introduction: Landscapes of girlhood. In P.J.
  Bettis and N. Adams (Eds.) Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum
  Associates, Publishers.
• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N.G. (Eds.) (2005). Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-
  Between. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
  Adams, N.G. & Bettis, P.J. (2003). Cheerleader! An American Icon.
  Palgrave/MacMillan.
• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N. (2005). Afterword: A femininst pedagogy of place. In
  P.J. Bettis and N. Adams (Eds.) Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum
  Associates, Publishers.
• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N. G. (In press). Short skirts and breast juts: Cheerleading
  and eroticism in schools. Sex Education.
• Bettis, P.J., Mills, M., Williams, J., & Nolan, R. (In press). Faculty in a liminal
  landscape: A case study of a college reorganization. Journal of Leadership and
  Organizational Studies.
• Mills, M., Bettis, P.J., Miller Williams, J., & Nolan, R. (In press). Experiences of
  academic unit reorganization: Organizational identity and identification in
  organizational change. Review of Higher Education.
• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N.G. (2003) . The power of the Preps and a cheerleading
  equity policy. Sociology of Education 76(2), 128-142.
• Adams, N. & Bettis, P. J. (2003). Commanding the room in short skirts:
  Cheerleading at the intersection of masculinity and femininity. Gender and
  Society 17(1), 73-91.
• Bettis, P.J. (2000). Corporate discourses in school: Adapting to the prevailing
  economic climate. Educational Foundations 14(1), 23-49.
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• Bettis, P.J. (1998). Constructing futures on fault lines: Secondary vocational
  education in a shifting economic landscape. Journal of Vocational
  Education Research, 23(4), 287-309. (Invited and peer reviewed)
• Bettis, P.J. (1996). Urban students, liminality, and the post-industrial context.
  Sociology of Education, 69(2), 105-125.
• Bettis, P.J. (1996). Urban abstraction in a Central City High School.
  The Urban Review, 28(4), 309-335.
• Lakes, R.D. & Bettis, P.J. (1995). Advancing critical vocational education research.
  Journal of Vocational Education Research, 20(3), 5-28.
• Bettis, P. J. (1994). Deindustrialization and urban schools: Some theoretical
  considerations. The Urban Review, 26(2), 75-94.
• Bettis, P., Cooks, H., & Bergin, D. (1994). "It's not steps anymore - but more like
  shuffling:" Student perceptions of the Civil Rights Movement and ethnic identity.
  Journal of Negro Education, 63(2), 197-211.
• Bettis, P. J., & Gregson, J. A.(1993). Democratizing secondary vocational
  education: Examples of critical pedagogy. Journal of Vocational and Technical
  Education, 10(1), 4-14
• Adams, N.G. & Bettis, P.J. (In press). Liberties and lipstick: The paradox of
  cheerleading as sport. In S. Spickard Prettyman and B. Lampman (Eds.)
  Changing the Game: Thinking Critically about Sport. Scarecrow Press.
  Mills, M. & Bettis, P.J. (In press). Micro and Macro Lens: Studying Identity
  During a College Reorganization. In V. Anfara and M. Metz (Eds). Theoretical
  Frameworks in Qualitative Research. Sage Publications.
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• Bettis, P.J., Jordan, D., & Montgomery, D. (2005). Girls in groups: The Preps and
  the Sex Mob try out for womanhood. In P.J. Bettis & N. Adams (Eds.)
  Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
• Adams, N.G. & Bettis, P.J. (2003). Pump it up: Sports, athleticism, and the new
  cheerleader. In F. Marcantonio (Ed.) Reading Women’s Lives. Pearson Custom
  Publishing.
• Bettis, P.J. & Gregson, J.A. (2001) The why of research: Paradigmatic and
  pragmatic considerations. In E.I. Farmer and J. W. Rojewski (Eds.), Research
  Pathways: Writing Professional Papers, Theses, and Dissertations in Education.
  University Press of America.
• Bettis, P. J. (2000). Deindustrialization and urban schools: Some theoretical
  considerations. In Stephen J. Ball (Ed.), The Sociology of Education: Major
  Themes (Vol. 2). Routledge.
• Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N. (2005), Introduction: Landscapes of girlhood. In P.J.
  Bettis and N. Adams (Eds.) Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum
  Associates, Publishers.
• Bettis, P.J., Jordan, D., & Montgomery, D. (2005). Girls in groups: The Preps and
  the Sex Mob try out for womanhood. In P.J. Bettis & N. Adams (Eds.)
  Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
  Bettis, P.J. & Adams, N. (2005). Afterword: A femininst pedagogy of place. In
  P.J. Bettis and N. Adams (Eds.) Geographies of Girlhood. Lawrence Erlbaum
  Associates, Publishers.
• Adams, N.G. & Bettis, P.J. (2003). Pump it up: Sports, athleticism, and the new
  cheerleader. In F. Marcantonio (Ed.) Reading Women’s Lives. Pearson Custom
  Publishing.
• Bettis, P.J. & Gregson, J.A. (2001) The why of research: Paradigmatic and
  pragmatic considerations. In E.I. Farmer and J. W. Rojewski (Eds.), Research
  Pathways: Writing Professional Papers, Theses, and Dissertations in Education.
  University Press of America.
• Bettis, P. J. (2000). Deindustrialization and urban schools: Some theoretical
  considerations. In Stephen J. Ball (Ed.), The Sociology of Education: Major
  Themes (Vol. 2). Routledge.