Karen Morgaine
Professor

Brief Biography

Karen has a passion for exploring the intersections of creativity and social justice work in her research and teaching. She completed her PhD. after working in the domestic violence and mental health fields for ten years. These professional experiences, which centered on violence against women, sexual assault, and structural inequalities in micro contexts, and her own social movement activity, eventually became the springboard into her focus on community organizing and social movements.

Karen began teaching social welfare/social justice, qualitative research, and LGBTQQI+ courses at CSUN in 2008 and now teaches courses related to her areas of specialization (and joy!) including artivism, social movements, and community organizing. Her research leans towards centering art in social movements and community organizing and she has been exploring the meanings art and creativity hold for artivists and socially engaged artists in their social justice work. She has co-authored/edited books about anti-oppressive social work practice and anti-oppressive arts-based research methods and is currently collaborating on a workbook on anti-oppressive arts-based practice. Additional publications include a book on pansexuality that incorporated collage work and “transcript poems,” explorations of the framing of domestic violence as a human rights violation, the framing of “freedom” in conservative and progressive media, and positionality and privilege in qualitative research.

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