Awards & Publications

Awards:

April 2023

  • Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Teaching Award Northeastern Illinois University Foundation

April 2022

  • Inaugural Recipient of NEIU President’s Inclusive Excellence and Diversity Award – Faculty Award

February 2021 

  • Dean Murrell Higgins Duster Legacy Award – Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) Black Heritage Awards

  • African American Educator Award – Second Baptist Church , Evanston, IL

February 2019

  • Faculty Award of Excellence – NEIU Black Heritage Awards


Publications:

Book

Perlow, Olivia, Wheeler, Durene, Bethea, Sharon, and Scott, BarBara (Eds.). (2018) Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies: Resistance, Transformation, and Healing Within and Beyond the Academy. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Obtain copy:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-65789-9

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Wheeler, D. I. (2022). Reframing Our Relationship to Work Trauma.  Journal of Mental Health Social Behavior, 4(1): 156  ONLINE Access: https://doi.org/10.33790/jmhsb1100156

 

Perlow, Olivia, Bethea, S., Wheeler D. (2014) “Dismantling the Master’s House: Black Women Faculty Challenging White Privilege/Supremacy in the College Classroom.” Resistance to Teaching Anti-Racism, Special Edition for Understanding and Dismantling Privilege. ONLINE Access:  http://www.wpcjournal.com/article/view/12307

 

Book Chapters 

Wheeler, Durene I., & Nitihirageza, Jeanine  (2013).  Teach Me About Africa: Facilitating and Training Educators toward a Socially Just Curriculum. In Brandon D. Lundy & Solomon Negash (Eds.), Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st Century Classroom (pp. 104-111), Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indian University Press. Obtain Copy: https://iupress.org/9780253008213/teaching-africa/

Scroll to Top