Celina K. Su

Education:

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2005 (Urban Studies)

B.A. (honors), Wesleyan University - 1999 (Economics and English)

Areas of Expertise:

Participatory democracy and civic engagement, especially in local politics; politics of health and education policy; civil society, especially grassroots and social movement organizations; and mixed participatory methods (both quantitative and qualitative, but with an emphasis on the latter) in public policy research.

Books and Publications

"Bildung als Farce." Die Tagezeitung, Feb. 15: 11. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2013

Peter Muennig and Celina Su. "Social Policy Interventions and Public Health." Structural Approaches in Public Health. Eds. Richard Parker and Marni Sommer. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2013

Su, Celina and Isabelle Jagninski. "From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots: Tensions in Critical Pedagogy and Community Development." Journal of Urban Affairs 35.1: 103-21. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

Su, Celina and Peter Muennig. Politics of Global Health. New York: Jossey-Bass, John Wiley & Sons. In press. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2013

"Bürger entdecken Bürger." Die Tagezeitung, Oct. 26: 5. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2012

"Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting." Journal of Public Deliberation 8.2: 1-14. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

Martinson, Marty and Celina Su. "Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The 'Alinsky
tradition' and Freirian Organizing Approaches." Community Organizing and Community Building for Health, 3rd ed. Ed. Meredith Minkler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012

Ospina, Sonia M., Erica Foldy, Amparo Hoffman, Jennifer Dodge, Waad El-Hadidy and Celina Su. "Social Change Leadership." Advancing Relational Leadership Theory: A Conversation Among Perspectives. Eds. Mary Uhl-Behn and Sonia Ospina. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2012

Muennig, Peter and Celina Su. "The Politics of Global Aid." Routledge International Handbook on Global Public Health. Eds. Richard Parker and Marni Sommer. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2011

Verma, Nishant, Coralie Chan, Celina Su and Peter Muennig. "Between 'Voluntary Migrants' and War Refugees: The Health of the Shan Burmese Migrant Workers in Northern Thailand." Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 9.4: 452-59. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2011

"Leaving Behind No Child Left Behind." (From Symposium: Obama Meets the World: Realities and Recommendations for a New Administration. Ed. David Schultz.) New Political Science 32.2: 265-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Marginalized Stakeholders and Performative Politics: Dueling Discourses in Education Policy-making." Critical Policy Studies 4.4: 362-83. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"The Fountain of (Relatively) Eternal Youth Lies In... Shorter Totem Poles?!?" Review essay of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, by T.R. Reid, and Toward the Healthy City: People, Places and the Politics of Urban Planning, by Jason Corburn. XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 23. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2010

"We Call Ourselves by Many Names: Storytelling and Inter-minority Coalition-building." Community Development Journal 45.4: 439-57. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Verma, Nishant, Coralie Chan, Celina Su, Rufina Lee and Peter Muennig. "The Psychosocial Health of Shan Children in Northern Thailand." Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 8.4: 445-49. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

"Democracy for What?" Review of Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon. Ed. Boaventura de Sousa Santos. XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 21. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2009

Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx. Cornell University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2009

Ospina, Sonia and Celina Su. "Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations." Leadership 5.2: 137-70. To be reprinted in Leadership. Eds. David Collinson, Keith Grint and Brad Jackson. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. In press; due March 2011. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2009

Su, Celina, Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson and Jeanne Theoharis. Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failure of Urban Education. New York University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2009

"Cracking Silent Codes: Critical Race Theory and Education Organizing." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

"Education Policy: Schools." International Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Volume 4: Social, Environmental and Corporate Governance. Ed. Phillip O'Hara. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2007

"Non-government Organizations." International Encyclopedia of Public Policy, Volume 1: Global Governance and Development. Ed. Phillip O'Hara. Perth, Australia: Global Political Economy Research Unit. 315-25. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2007

"Institutions and Development." Encylopedia of International Devleopment. Ed. Tim Forsyth. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

"Pedagogy of the Oppressed." Encylopedia of International Development. Ed. Tim Forsyth. New York: Routledge. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2005

Su, Celina and Peter Muennig. "The Politics of Social Entrepreneurs in Access to Education: A Case Study of Shan Burmese Refugees in Northernwestern Thailand." Current issues in Comparative Education 8.1: 31-40. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

American Academy in Berlin Prize, Bosch Public Policy Fellowship. (Awards and Honors) 2012

New York University / MasterCard Foundation Grant, to examine leadership development models via Women's World Banking. (Awards and Honors) 2010

PSC-CUNY Grant, to examine issues of governance in health policy. Renewed in 2009. (Awards and Honors) 2008

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. (Awards and Honors) 2007

New York University/Ford Foundation Grant, to work with the Leadership for a Changing World program, researching issues of race in grassroots organizations in the United States. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Grant, to continue work on grassroots organizations in the South Bronx, and their political strategies. Renewed in 2007. (Grants and Fellowships) 2006

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"From Toxic Tours to Growing the Grassroots." International Sociological Association Forum. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Marginalized Stakeholders and Performative Politics." Bosch Public Policy Lecture. American
Academy in Berlin. Oct. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"General Social Survey / National Death Index Dataset." Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. New York, May 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Obama's Healthcare Reform: What Went Right; What Went Wrong?" Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. May 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2010

"Youth and Political Participation." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, March 25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010

"Leaving Behind No Child Left Behind: Towards Student-centered Education Reform." Left Forum. New York, April 17-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Social Change and Public Leadership." Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. New York, Feb. 18-20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009

"Social Change Organizations as Intermediary Institutions in Participatory Versus Representative Democracy" panel presentation. New York State Political Science Association (NYSPSA) Annual Conference. New York, April 24-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Speaking Truth to Deaf Power: Teenagers as Empowered Stakeholders, Community Organizing, and the Seeds of a Social Movement." Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Annual Conference. Chicago, March 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Students as Stakeholders in Education Policy." American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Conference. Toronto, Sept. 5. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

Ospina, Sonia and Celina Su. "Race and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations." Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Annual Conference. Los Angeles, Nov. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Choosing to Join 'em, or Fight 'em: Social Change Organizations and Political Strategies." Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference. Chicago, Nov. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Social Change Organizations and a Rising Social Justice Movement" panel presentation. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference. Chicago, Nov. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2007

"Towards Meaningful Participation for Stateless People: Two Case Studies of Shan Burmese Refugee NGOs in Thailand." Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference. Chicago, Nov. 17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Culture, School Reform and Contesting Colorblindness in Community Organizations." World Planning Schools Congress. Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. Mexico City, July 13. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"Tackling Race in Social Change Organizations." Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) Annual Conference. Chicago, Nov. 16. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"Empowering (and Disempowering) Citizen Engagement: Lessons From Cycles in Decentralization in School Governance." City Legacies Symposium. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, N.Y., Oct. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"Streetwise for Book Smarts." Wagner Education and Policy Studies Association. New York University. April 28. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005

Community Activities

Executive director, Burmese Refugee Project, 2000-12. Co-founder and board member, 2000-present. 2013