Rate My Professor Vivyan Adair

Adair’s scholarship centers on comparative feminist theories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, particularly representations of poor women, welfare policy impacts, and stigma. Her major publications include the book From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture (Garland Publishing, 2000); co-editor of Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America (Temple University Press, 2003); “Stigmata: A Memoir of Pain and Resistance” (Feminist Studies, 2019); “Branded with Infamy: Inscriptions of Class and Poverty in America” (Signs, 2002); “Class Absences: Cutting Class in Feminist Studies” (Feminist Studies, 2005); and “Poverty and the (Broken) Promise of Higher Education” (Harvard Educational Review, 2001). She received the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award (2000), CASE/Carnegie New York State Professor of the Year (2004), and American Association of Community Colleges Distinguished Alumni Award (2010). Adair held leadership roles such as chair of the Hamilton College Sexual Assault and Misconduct Committee (2011-2016), Title IX Policy Taskforce (2015), and Biased Racial Incident Team (2014-2016), enhancing campus equity initiatives.