Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae

Academic Appointment
2021-present
Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies
Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race in Art and Design
Department of History, Philosophy & Social Sciences
Division of Liberal Arts
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Feel free to read more about my current academic appointment here


Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies     
December 2019
The University of Alabama
Home Department: Gender and Race Studies
Dissertation: Growing Up Single: Lives of Adult Children of Single Mothers of Color; An Ethnographic Case Study


MA in Women's Studies
May 2019
The University of Alabama, College of Arts & Sciences

MSW in Adults & Families  
August 2008 
The University of Alabama, School of Social Work

MPH in Maternal & Child Health
August 2008 
The University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Public Health

BS in Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology
May 2006
Emory University

Certifications

• University of Alabama, Qualitative Research Certificate-May 2018

Sample Publications
Alvarez, A. M., & Hartley, J. (2021). How Black poets and writers gave a voice to “Affrilachia.” The Conversation. 

​Hartley, J. (2019). Lost & Found: a digital story. Liminalities, 15(4). 

Hartley, J. (2019). Mama Taught Me: Storied Blackgirl Reflections. International Review of Qualitative Research, 12(3):304-322, Fall 2019.