Tami Moore

co-author of "Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment"

January 8, 2019

Tami L. Moore is an associate professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs and serves as co-director of the OSU Tulsa Center for Public Life. Her scholarly work examines various roles that universities – faculty, students and universities as institutional actors – play in the communities they serve.

Her dissertation won the American Educational Research Association Dissertation of the Year Award in Division J/Postsecondary Education. Articles based on this work appear in the Journal of Community Engaged Scholarship and as part of the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s monograph series published by John Wiley and Sons.

From 2006 to 2010, she was the founding co-director of the Emerging Engagement Scholars Workshop of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. Over the last decade, more than 200 advanced graduate students, early career faculty and university extension professionals working across the United States and Canada have participated in this unique professional development opportunity.

Her work on how faculty build scholarly agendas grounded in a commitment to community engagement is published in the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, and the top-tier Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. She currently serves on the editorial board of the International Research Journal for Service Learning and Community Engagement.

In the face of authoritarian, divisive trends and multiplying crises, when politics-as-usual is stymied, “Awakening Democracy through Public Work” shows it is possible to build foundations for a democratic awakening grounded in deep American traditions of citizen-centered commonwealth.

The book begins with the story of Public Achievement, a youth civic education and empowerment initiative with roots in the civil rights movement, and how it spread across the country and then abroad, giving birth to the larger concept of public work. “Awakening Democracy through Public Work” shows that we can free the productive powers of people to work across lines and differences to build a better society and create grounded hope for the future.

URL: https://library-dep.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2019-honorees/tami-moore

Last Updated: 8 January 2019