KIM HACKFORD-PEER portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Gender Studies
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Biography

Dr. Kim Hackford-Peer is the Associate Chair and an Associate Professor (Career Line Teaching Faculty) in the Division of Gender Studies, so she gets to spend a lot of time working with curriculum, teaching, and mentoring students. Her teaching career began in first grade when she and her best friend taught their classmates all about teeter totter safety – Gender Studies is glad she has expanded her areas of interest! Now she teaches classes (all of which carry general education designations) such as: Medusa and Manifestos (CW), Intro to LGBTQ Studies (DV), and Queer Representation in the Media (DV). She also supports our internship program and works with students as they develop skills to design and implement curriculum. Kim’s research interests coincide with her teaching practices; she is deeply interested in pedagogy, particularly as it relates to the ways that identity and education intersect.

Education

  • M.Ed., Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services/Social Justice Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • PhD, Education, Culture, & Society, University of Utah. Project: MENTORING THE IMAGINATION: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER AND QUESTIONING YOUTH ENGAGING AND EXPANDING MENTORING IN UTAH