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Mitchell, Claudia

Co-Investigator
Faculty of Education
McGill University
Montreal, QC
Email: claudia.mitchell@mcgill.ca & mitchellc3@ukzn.ac.za



Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University and the former Professor and Chair of the Durban School of Education. Her research areas include visual and arts-based research methodologies, media studies, youth, gender and HIV/Aids, gender-based violence, girlhood and popular culture, and teachers’ self-study. In working extensively on youth and gender in Africa, she has conducted research studies, development projects and evaluations in The Gambia, Zambia, Mozambique Swaziland and South Africa through work with CIDA, UNICEF, UNESCO and UNAIDS. Her work on youth and gender includes the development of Educating girls: A handbook, Opening our eye: Addressing gender-based violence in South Africa schools – A module for educators’ Gender equity for all: An educator’s handbook on mainstreaming, and she has also co-edited themed issues of journals such as Canadian Women’s Studies on HIV/AIDS and gender. Books include: Researching children’s popular culture: Cultural spaces of childhood, Routledge Taylor Francis, with J. Reid-Walsh): Reinventing ourselves as teachers: Beyond nostalgia (Falmer, with S. Weber), That’s funny you don’t look like a teacher: Interrogating images of identity in popular culture (Falmer, with S. Weber), Just who do we think we are: methodologies for self-study (Routledge Falmer, with K. O’Reilly Scanlon & S. Weber);Not just any dress: Narratives of , body and identity (Peter Lang, with S. Weber), Seven going on seventeen: Tween studies in the culture of girlhood (Peter Lang, with J. Reid-Walsh); and forthcoming Girlhood: Redefining the limits (Black Rose Books with Y. Jiwani and C. Steenbergen, eds.). Selected publications