Amy Rutstein-Riley
Professional Title: Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise:
Emerging adulthood, young adult women’s health, the intersections of identity development, body image and media, college student mental health, and girls’ and women’s groups and relational-cultural theory
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Adult learning and development
Education: Ph.D., Lesley University; M.P.H, Boston University School of Public Health; B.A., Simmons College
Representative List of Recent Publications / Exhibitions:
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A., Walker, J., Diamond, A., Laflamme, M., Bryant, B. (Anticipated
publication 2011). “We’re all straight here:”Using Girls’ Groups and
Critical Media Literacy to Explore Identity with Middle School Girls,
Chapter forthcoming in, Adolescent Girls’ Sexualities and the Media
(Anthology)
- Rutstein-Riley,
A., Diamond, A., Bryant, B., Littlefield, K., Mangone, H., LeCount, D.,
& Domenech, A. (2011). Student-Scholar-Mentor: A Model of Teaching and
Learning Partnerships in a University Classroom. A Community of Scholars,
Lesley University, Cambridge MA.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2011). Girlhood, Identity, and Girl Culture – Lessons Learned. 1st
International Conference, Women’s Perspectives on Student Development,
University of Toronto, OISE Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. & Diamond, A. (2010). Girlhood, Identity, and Girl Culture -- A
Research Progress Report on the Impact of a Service Learning Project.
Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals, Girls’
Studies Conference, SUNY Cortland.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. & Vacarr, B. (2009). Walking the Talk of Adult Learning: An
Approach to Program Development and Design. Council for Adult and
Experiential Learning (CAEL) 2009 International Conference, Chicago
Illinois.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. & Roth, R. (2009). Envisioning a Sociological Imagination for Girls
and Young Women: Changing Social Identity and Developing Social Resources.
The New England Sociological Association 2009 Spring Conference: “The
Sociological Imagination”. Western New England College.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A., Vacarr, B., Strassman, D., Goldman, H. & Jaffe, C. (2009).
Research that Transforms Adult Lives. Lesley University Community of
Scholars.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. & Diamond, A. (2008). Panel Presentation, Girls’ Work & Work
for Girls: Service, Learning, Mentoring. The 18th Annual Women's Studies
Conference "Girls' Culture & Girls' Studies: Surviving, Reviving,
Celebrating Girlhood." Southern Connecticut State University.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2008). Shifting views of self: Impact of chronic illness diagnosis on
young emerging adult women. In, Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease:
Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Amsterdam: Rodolpi
Press.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2008). Emerging Adult Women, Illness Experience, and Interaction with
the US Health Care System. American Association of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2007). “I am more than my medical record!” A Relationship-centered
Approach to Emerging Adult Women’s Health. Women’s Studies Research
Center, Brandeis University, Waltham MA.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2007). Emerging Adult Women, Illness Narratives, and the Body. The
National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, St. Charles,
Illinois.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2007). Through the Lens of Relationship: Emerging Adult Women, Illness
Experience, and the Construction of Meaning. Intersectional Models of
Women’s Health: Uniting Theory and Practice, Towson University, Towson MD.
- Rutstein-Riley,
A. (2006). Narrative and Adult Learners. Narrative Matters 2006 – The
Storied Nature of Human Experience: Fact and Fiction. Nova Scotia, Canada,
May 2006.
Amy Rutstein-Riley, PhD, MPH, directs the Adult Learning & Development Specialization of the PhD Program in Educational Studies. She holds a joint appointment in Sociology in the Social Science Division of Lesley College. Amy teaches courses in medical sociology, women’s studies, girls’ studies, family studies, research methods, adult learning and development, and interdisciplinary inquiry, and is a faculty advisor in the Learning Community Bachelor’s program.
She is the principle investigator of Girlhood, Identity, and Girl Culture and has received the prestigious American Association of Women’s Community Action Grant (2-years) and the Reebok Foundation Grant to fund the project and research activities. Amy serves as Co-chair of the Lesley University Women’s Studies Steering Committee and Co-directs the Women’s Center. Amy recently completed a two year appointment as a Visiting Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and focused on her ongoing research on emerging adult women’s health.
arutstei@lesley.edu