Patricia Ann Stukes is a disaster researcher focused on social vulnerability, including race, gender, sexuality and class analysis. Stukes' dissertation focused on Gay Christian Service in disaster. Stukes' most recent paper focused on the impact of COVID-19 protocols for information sharing between the government and Tribal Epidemiologists in Canada and the U.S. Stukes' pedagogical research is vested in Spoken Word, Lyric Analysis & Slam Poetry as tools in the classroom.
Experience
Stukes has been a teaching instructor for twenty years in multicultural gender and women's studies, and sociology at Texas Woman’s University. Stukes also worked as a case worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for ten years.
Education
2014
Ph.D. in Sociology
Texas Women's University
2002
Master of Arts in Multicultural Gender and Women’s Studies
Texas Women's University
2000
Bachelor of Science
Texas Women's University
Publications
Stukes, P. (Forthcoming), Barbara Jordan. In Angela Jones, Ed, African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Stukes, P. Wu, H. (2020). Improving COVID-19 data protocols for Indigenous peoples in the US and Canada: A public-media-based cross-national comparison - Journal of Indigenous Social …, 2020
Stukes, P. (2014). A Caravan of Hope—Gay Christian Service: Exploring Social Vulnerability and Capacity Building of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Identified Individuals and Organizational Advocacy in Two Post Katrina Disaster Environments Texas Woman’s University Doctor of Philosophy
Stukes, P., Phillips, B. and Jenkins, P. (2011). “Freedom Hill is Not for Sale, and Neither is the Lower Ninth Ward.” Journal of Black Studies.
Stukes, P. (2002). “Resurrecting Womanist Theory from the Lyrics of India. Arie, Lauryn Hill, and Me'shell
Ndeǵeoćello: The Performance and Pedagogy of Race and Gender politics.” Texas Woman’s University Master of Arts Thesis