Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhode Island College, where she teaches sociology and justice studies courses including research methods, law and society, comparative law and justice, minority issues in justice systems, and society & social behavior. She has also taught courses in social movements, the sociology of education, the sociology of the Holocaust, race & ethnicity, social problems, and introductory sociology at Hamilton College, Queens College of the City University of New York, and New York University. Professor Arthur's research interests focus on social movements, higher education, organizational change, and the social and legal construction of inequality. Her first book, Student Activism and Curricular Change (Ashgate 2011) discusses how students and faculty at higher education institutions can use contentious political action to create curricular change on campus.
Books
Social Change, Student Handbook to Sociology (2012)
The study of social change has long been one of the central interests in sociology....
Student Activism and Curricular Change in Higher Education, Ashgate (2011)
While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an...
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Resurrecting Smelser: Collective Power, Generalized Belief, and Hegemonic Spaces (2009)
When people mobilize for collective action, it is because they want something. These wants are...
Thinking Outside the Master’s House: New Knowledge Movements and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines (2009)
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding emergent disciplines as knowledge-focused social movement phenomena...
Social Movements in Organizations (2008)
This article reviews the literature on social movements within organizations such as colleges and universities,...
Book Sections
Expanding the Toolbox: Comparative-Historical Methodology Looks to the Future, New Directions in Sociology: Essays on Theory and Methodology in the 21st Century (2011)
Comparative-historical research methods are often seen as the providence of old-fashioned researchers interested only in...
Pedagogy
The Spectre of Class: Educating and Advising for Self-Efficacy, Issues in Teaching and Learning (2010)
In her essay “The Spectre of Class: Educating and Advising for Self-Efficacy” Mikaila Mariel Lemonik...