Colleen R. Greer

Colleen R. Greer is a professor emerita at Bemidji State University, where she served as a professor, department chair, partnership coordinator for community engagement, and as a college dean from 2012-2017. Currently her teaching and research interests are in the areas of intersectionality, critical pedagogy, digital ethics, community engagement and immigration. Recent scholarship has explored the gendered realities of work-life balance, and the development of cross-disciplinary connections that address ethics and technology.

Publications

Perspectives on Social and Material Fractures in Care
Perspectives on Social and Material Fractures in Care
Colleen R. Greer, Debra F. Peterson. © 2024. 314 pages.
The COVID-19 pandemic functioned as a stark illuminator, exposing the deep-seated cracks in social and material support for those in caregiving roles. Despite the resilience of...
Articulations of Care
Articulations of Care
Colleen R. Greer, Sally J. McMillan. © 2024. 32 pages.
This chapter explores cultural interpretations of care by examining five years (2018-2022) of content published in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Over the last...
Cracks in the Provision of Care: Voices From the Front Line
Cracks in the Provision of Care: Voices From the Front Line
Colleen R. Greer. © 2024. 24 pages.
This chapter focuses on interpreting the voices of women serving in essential work positions during COVID-19 in the U.S. Their voices tell the story of how the cultural hegemony...
Curriculum for Compassion
Curriculum for Compassion
Rucha Ambikar, Lukas Szrot, Colleen Greer, Debra Peterson. © 2021. 20 pages.
This chapter discusses the central question of whether a discipline and the faculty leaders associated with that discipline can focus on nurturing compassion and working towards...