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Theresa Hice-Fromille

Theresa Hice-Fromille

Theresa Hice-Fromille

Assistant Professor

hice-fromille.1@osu.edu

1156 Derby Hall
154 North Oval Mall
Columbus OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • African Diaspora Studies
  • Black Geographies
  • Youth Studies and Education
  • Community-Engaged Research Methods

Education

  • 2023 PhD. Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 2020 MA Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • 2016 B.A. Political Science and Spanish with minor in International Relations, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Current CV:

 

I am not accepting graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year. 

Research Interests: I consider Black geographies of the past, present, and future in speculative fiction and lived experience to consider how it might inform practices in education, travel, and community building in the virtual and real worlds.  

Courses Taught:

2024-25 Courses:

Fall: GEOG3701, The Making of the Modern World

Spring: GEOG5401, Economies, Space and Society 

Select Publications:

Hice-Fromille, Theresa and Sarah Papazoglakis. 2024. “What does artificial intelligence mean for Black futures?” InkStick Media. https://inkstickmedia.com/what-does-artificial-intelligence-mean-for-black-futures/

Ellington, Alycia, Hice-Fromille, Theresa, London, Rebecca, Carino, Theresa, and Lynda
Otero. 2023. “Las Voces de Mujercitas Empoderadas: Documenting Support for Youth with Youth Participatory Action Research.” Social Sciences. 12(9):1-22.
https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12090483

Hice-Fromille, Theresa, and Rebecca A. London. 2022. “Making Space: Exploring the
“Thirdspace” of Breaktime in Middle School.” Youth & Society.  
https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X221118949

Hice-Fromille, Theresa. 2022. “Teaching for Black Girls: What Every Graduate Student
Instructor Can Learn from Black Girlhood Studies.” in Exploring How We Teach: Lived Experiences, Lessons, and Research about Graduate Instructors by Graduate Instructors, edited by S. Clem. Logan, UT: Utah State University. Retrieved August 16, 2022 (https://uen.pressbooks.pub/exploreteaching/).

Hawthorne, Camilla, Hice Fromille, Theresa, and Brandi Summers. 2020. “Black
Geographies of Quarantine.” UCHRI Foundry. Retrieved November 20, 2020
(https://uchri.org/foundry/black-geographies-of-quarantine-a-dialogue-with-brandi-summers-camilla-hawthorne-and-theresa-hice-fromille/).