Turner, Francena
Dr. Francena F.L. Turner
Adjunct Assistant Professor, History
Email: fturner1@uncfsu.edu
Education
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D., History of Education. 2020.
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ed.M Education Policy Studies. 2015.
- Fayetteville State University, BA. History. 2014· Fayetteville Technical Community College. AAS. Respiratory Care & Associate in General Education. 2003.
Teaching Courses
- HIST 210, African American History
Research Interests
- Histories of Black education across the lifespan
- Black women's higher education and career trajectories
- Fayetteville State University
- Black Digital Humanities
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Gullah/Geechee outmigration
Dissertation
- Black Women and Student Activism at Fayetteville State, 1960-1972
Publications
Solo-Authored
- "Girls Don't Strike without Provocation": African American Women, the General Strike, and the Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1956-1959. Nursing History Review 32, no. 1 (2024): 142-164.
- "Movements Come and Go and Are Soon Forgotten.": The Black Campus Movement at Fayetteville State, 1966-1972.” ZANJ: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies 6, no. 1 (September 2022): 44-69.
- “Bone by Bone”: Re(collecting) Stories of Black Women at Fayetteville State, 1960-1972 Using Oral History Interviews with a Life History Approach” in Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies for Educational Research. New York: Routledge, 2022. doi:10.4324/9781003127192-6
- “It Just Got Real: Dissertating Under the Tripartite Pressures of the Covid-19 Pandemic, AntiBlack Racism, & The Academic Job Market” in Dissertating During a Pandemic: Narratives of Success from Scholars of Color. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2021.
Co-Authored
- Bohonos, Jeremy, James-Gallaway, Chaddrick, James-Gallaway, ArCasia, & Turner, Francena F.L. “Black History in Adult Education in the United States: A Historical Review and Historiographical Critique.” Adult Education Quarterly (June 2023).
- ArCasia D. James-Gallaway & Francena F.L. Turner. Towards a Racial Justice Project: Oral History Methodology, Critical Race Theory, and African American Education, Paedagogica Historica (2022).
- Francena Turner, HyeJin Tina Yeo, & Eboni Zamani-Gallaher. “Mentoring Domestic and International Graduate Students of Color,” in A Handbook for Supporting Today’s Graduate Student. Sterling: Stylus Publishing, 2022.
- Francena F.L. Turner & ArCasia D. James-Gallaway. Black Baby Boomers, Gender, and Southern Education: Navigating Tensions in Oral History Methodology. Oral History Review.
- Marielisbet Perez & Francena F.L. Turner. (2020). Mothering Graduate Students of Color Reflect on Lessons Lived and Learned in the Academy. Women, Gender, and Families of Color 8, no. 2 (2022): 235-240.
- ArCasia D. James-Gallaway & Francena F.L. Turner. Mobilizing Betrayal: Black Feminist Pedagogy and Black Women Graduate Student Educators. Gender, Work, and Organization 28, (2020): 24-38.
- Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Francena Turner, Karie Tess-Brown & Chauntee Thrill. Autobiographical Counternarratives from the Community College to the PhD. Community College Journal of Research and Practice 41, no. 4-5 (2016): 326-328.
Academic Blog Posts
- (2021). Finding Florence: The Need for Community College Eductors as Topics of Historical Research.
- (2020). The Work of Erasing Black Women's Labor.
- (2020). Intersecting and Multiplicative Impacts of Covid-19
- (2018). ACPA 2-Year College Drive-In Conference ·
- (2017). Support Services for Parenting Students at Community Colleges: Our Stories Are Connected