Sonny Partola portrait
  • Graduate Research Assist (RA), Education, Culture & Society
801-587-7814

Publications

  • Maeve Wall, S. Shiver, Sonny Partola, Nicole Steffes & Rosie Ojeda (2023). Racelighting in Utah Education: Counterstories Across Contexts. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Published, 12/05/2023.
    https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110...
  • Laura Hernández, Paul J. Kuttner, Gerardo R. López , Jennifer Mayer-Glenn , Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez, Taeyeon Kim, Amadou Niang, Sonny Partola & Alma Yanagui (2023). We are the ones who are living it: Critical education research as participatory public scholarship. Handbook of critical education research: Qualitative, quantitative, and emerging approaches. Published, 07/24/2023.
    https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432...
  • Leticia Alvarez Gutiérrez, Taeyeon Kim, Sonny Partola, Paul J. Kuttner, Amadou Niang, Alma Yanagui, Laura Hernández, Gerardo R. López & Jennifer Mayer-Glenn (2022). Community-Centered School Leadership: Radical Care and Aperturas During COVID-19. AERA Open. Published, 06/09/2022.
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332...

Presentations

  • Steffes, N. W., Wall, M., & Partola, S. (2023, March). “We feel no discrimination exists in our school”: High school student activism in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1970-2019. In B. Partida (Chair), Youth in the Movement: High School Student Activism in Postwar America. Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting, Los Angeles, CA. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/31/2023.
  • Partola, S. (2023, February). Queering multicultural education: Queer theory, pedagogy, and resistance. Paper presented at the Utah Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), Orem, UT. Conference Paper, Presented, 02/25/2023.
  • Steffes, N. W., Partola, S., & Wall, M. (2022, November). “We feel no discrimination exists in our school”: High school student activism in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1970-2019. In J. Hale (Chair), Youth in the Movement: High School Student Activism in Postwar America. Paper presented at the History of Education Society (HES) annual meeting, Baltimore, MD. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/03/2022.
  • Partola, S. (2022, March). Seeking queer possibilities: Queer theory in education. Paper presented at the annual Big 12 LGBTQIA and Allies Summit at Texas Tech University, online. Presentation, Presented, 03/2022.
  • Alvarez Gutiérrez, L., Knuth, T., Partola, S., Wall, M., Quijada Cerecer, P.D. (2022, March). Disrupting educator’s roles with the school to prison pipeline. In L. Alvarez Gutiérrez (Chair), Abolishing Surveillance and Punishment: Transformational Justice in Education. Panel conducted at the meeting of National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME), online. Presentation, Presented, 03/2022.
  • Partola, S. (2021, November). Controversy in the valley: Youth resistance and the gay-straight alliance of East High School. Paper presented at the History of Education Society (HES) annual meeting, San Diego, CA. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/2022.