Elisabeth L. Woody

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Elisabeth L. Woody
Principal Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley and Project Director,
Policy Analysis for California Education

Elisabeth L. Woody's research interests include student experiences on school reform, gender and diversity issues, critical pedagogy, and educators' responses to accountability in public schools. Woody is a former project director at Policy Analysis for California Education. She received the outstanding graduate student instructor award. She received her PhD in social and cultural studies in education from the University of California, Berkeley.

updated 2006

Publications by Elisabeth L. Woody
Constructions of Gender and Sexuality in California’s Single Gender Academies
This article examines heterosexist assumptions and the role of homophobia in students’ experiences in California’s public “Single Gender Academies,’’ in an effort to include issues of sexuality in current discourses on adolescent gender identity and…