Tamara Beauboeuf

Tamara Beauboeuf holds a joint appointment in the departments of education, and sociology and anthropology. Her education courses explore how the social hierarchies of race, class, and gender influence the behavior and attitudes of students and teachers. For the sociology department, she teaches a range of courses that examine individual development as a function of social tensions, historical patterns, and political inequities. Such concerns about the lives of individuals in society guide her research, in which she focuses on how teachers negotiate discourses of race and gender in their identities and pedagogy, and how social roles and expectations shape women’s constructions of their bodies. A current project investigates perceptions of strength and womanhood among African American women.

Outside of class, Tamara enjoys knitting and deciphering her husband’s poetry, and is amply entertained by their young daughter.