CHRISTINE WRITES

Journal Articles/Academic Publications

• Loss, C., Hinz, S., Ryan, C., Dickason, C. (2020). “Historical Evolution of Higher Education in the United States.” Oxford Bibliographies in Education. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0057

• "America's Schools: Separate and Unequal," Acta Cogitata, Eastern Michigan University, 2014.

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Government Publications

• “Sales Taxes: States Could Gain Revenue from Expanded Authority, but Businesses are Likely to Experience Compliance Costs,” U.S. Government Accountability Office, GAO-18-114, November 2017 (Contributor)

• The 2016 White House Holiday Tour Book, December 2016 (Contributor)

• Diversity Resolution, City of Oxford, 2014

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Academic Presentations​

• Dickason, C. (2021). “Mandating Our Way Out of the Counselor Crisis? The Effects of State Mandates on Student-to-Counselor Ratios.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, remote.

• Dickason, C., Deloach, C. (2021). “Food Bank Creation and Institutionalization at the University of Mississippi.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, remote.

• Dickason, C. (2020). “How GEAR UP Participation Affects Postsecondary Attainment: Evidence from the High School Longitudinal Study.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, remote.

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Popular Media — Op Eds & Blogs

• "State Auditor's Decision to Target Ole Miss Prof for Scholar Strike Participation Outrageous," The Clarion Ledger, September 19, 2020

• "'Ashamed and disgusted:' Trent Lott, Ole Miss and 'good ol' boy' politicians," The Clarion Ledger, October 8, 2019

• "Opinion: 4 reasons why development professionals can't be social media skeptics," Devex, March 4, 2019

• “Three Necessary Reforms to Reduce Gun Violence in America,” Institute for Policy Studies, August 6, 2015

• “Local Markets Nourish Families and Communities,” Institute for Policy Studies, July 29, 2015

• “Burdened by division,” The Daily Mississippian, April 24, 2014

• “Shaking up college athletics,” The Daily Mississippian, April 9, 2014

• “The NRA: our greatest health risk,” The Daily Mississippian, March 26, 2014

• “A musical education,” The Daily Mississippian, March 19, 2014

• “Food policy in the real world,” The Daily Mississippian, March 5, 2014

• “The future depends on courage today,” The Daily Mississippian and Generation Progress’s blog, February 27, 2014

• “Out of control,” The Daily Mississippian, February 19, 2014

• “St. Jude dining goes local,” The Daily Mississippian, February 5, 2014

• “The power of 85,” The Daily Mississippian, January 29, 2014

• “Divided we fall,” The Daily Mississippian, January 22, 2014

• “Women still undervalued in the workplace,” The Daily Mississippian, December 5, 2013

• “Slavery abolished, but wounds persist,” The Daily Mississippian, November 18, 2013

• “The power of human connection,” The Daily Mississippian, November 13, 2013

• “No room for discrimination in the workplace,” The Daily Mississippian, November 6, 2013

• “Priced out of college,” The Daily Mississippian, October 30, 2013

• “The United States’ fresh food gap,” The Daily Mississippian, October 16, 2013

• “The facts about voter ID laws,” The Daily Mississippian, October 9, 2013

• “House Republicans break bad,” The Daily Mississippian, October 2, 2013

• “Pro-gun lobby misfires,” The Daily Mississippian, September 25, 2013

• “Amplifying the voices of homelessness,” The Daily Mississippian, September 18, 2013

• “What’s for breakfast?” The Daily Mississippian, September 11, 2013

• “Labor Unions: the people who brought you the weekend,” The Daily Mississippian, September 4, 2013

• “Students deserve better than corporal punishment,” The Commercial Appeal, June 30, 2013

• “It’s not all about marriage,” Generation Progress’s blog, April 23, 2013

• “Voting against the American public has consequences,” The Daily Mississippian, April 22, 2013

• "Three things you can do to call for commonsense gun reform," Generation Progress's blog, April 17, 2013

• "#NoMoreNames: the lost lives of young people, like me," Generation Progress's blog, April 17, 2013

• "Want equal pay for equal work? Too bad," Generation Progress's blog, April 15, 2013

• "Can the success of #DontDoubleMyRate be repeated?" Generation Progress's blog, April 12, 2013

• "What Mark Zuckerberg has to say on immigration reform," Generation Progress's blog, April 11, 2013

• “Financial guru Size Orman joins members of Congress to speak about student debt,” Generation Progress’s blog, April 10, 2013

• “How Senate Republicans plan to fix student loans,” Generation Progress’s blog, April 10, 2013

• “High-ranking Democrat unveils plan to ‘make it in America,’” Generation Progress’s blog, April 10, 2013

• “Gay Iraq veteran wrangles with the U.S. to keep First Amendment rights,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 28, 2013

• “The battle for marriage equality reaches the Supreme Court,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 28, 2013

• “First openly gay bishop on marriage equality, the ministry, and millennials [interview],” Generation Progress’s blog, March 27, 2013

• “Millennials make their case for marriage equality loud and clear for the Supreme Court,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 27, 2013

• “LGBT rights are immigrants’ rights as well,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 26, 2013

• “Memphis activists: the KKK aren’t the only ones who can plan ‘biggest rally’ this weekend,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 26, 2013

• “Co-founder of Sex Week at UT speaks out [interview],” Generation Progress’s blog, March 23, 2013

• “How schools, stigmas, and the sequester impact the fight against hunger,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 22, 2013

• “Colorado takes three steps toward reducing gun violence,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 21, 2013

• “University of Tennessee Shuts Down ‘Sex Week,’” The Nation, March 20, 2013

• “The growing national problem that people don’t want to talk about,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 19, 2013

• “McConnell calls Dems 2016 lineup ‘rerun of the Golden Girls’ - but is that an insult?” Generation Progress’s blog, March 16, 2013

• “Some of the high—and low—lights of #CPAC2013,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 15, 2013

• “Consumer watchdog’s proposed rule takes big step in protecting education loan borrowers,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 14, 2013

• “Will conservative mega-conference’s focus on the next generation pay off?” Generation Progress’s blog, March 13, 2013

• “Four major wins young women can toast to this International Women’s Day,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 9, 2013

• “Republicans losing ground with young people,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 4, 2013

• “Openly gay Mississippi mayoral candidate found dead,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 2, 2013

• “Why Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act might be in danger,” Generation Progress’s blog, March 1, 2013

• “Youth brave cold to witness historic voting rights case,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 28, 2013

• “U.S. consumer watchdog takes major step in tackling student debt crisis,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 22, 2013

• “Five things you need to know about Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 21, 2013

• “Pulitzer Prize winner on how the sequester will affect youth,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 21, 2013

• “Few opportunities for millennials looking to serve their nation,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 15, 2013

• “Rep. Virginia Foxx alludes to Holocaust in condemnation of Obama’s rules on for-profits,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 7, 2013

• “Beyond big or small: government for and by millennial America,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 6, 2013

• “Two senators support Boy Scouts’ policy change,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 6, 2013

• “Bradley Cooper on mental health: ‘It’s something we can all relate to,’” Generation Progress’s blog, February 5, 2013

• “Gayle Trotter’s sexist defense for gun ownership,” Generation Progress’s blog, February 2, 2013

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