Josephine V. Ingram is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education, advised by Zeus Leonardo.
Her academic research interests include sex education, Marxist feminism, sociology of gender, and curriculum studies, using participant observation, discourse analysis, and archival research methods. Her current projects focus on the work of Valentin Vološinov, the social efficiency movement, sex education history and philosophy, and issues of sex/gender in literacy studies and the learning sciences.
Outside of the School of Education, she is a Graduate Student Affiliate in the Center for Ethnographic Research and the Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. She is pursuing the Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Graduate Certificate in Applied Data Science.
Originally from San Diego, prior to UC Berkeley she was a high school English teacher, GSA advisor, and UTLA member in LAUSD. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University and an M.A. in Teacher Education from UC Berkeley. Her poetry has been published in assorted literary journals, and she has received poetry residencies from Tin House and Sundress Academy for the Arts.
Specializations and Interests
Gender and literacy; social movements; decoloniality; Marxism; quantitative methods
