Amina Melendez-Mayfield
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Mail code: 7203Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentSociology
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Amina Melendez-Mayfield (she/her) is a PhD student in the Sociology program of the Standford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Her research focuses on Black, Afro-Latina, and Black queers engagement in placemaking in educational and noneducational spaces and how specific combinations of identity shape their experience. She plans to use her research to theorize how educational institutions have created spaces of insecurity, and othering, in efforts of altering educational institutions that do not recognize or provide safe spaces for queerness or people of color. Additionally, she plans to further explore Black gatekeeping and its role in Black queers engagement in placemaking.
B.A . in Sociology; Criminal Justice, Central Michigan University, 2020
M.A. in Justice Studies, Arizona State University, 2022
Queer Studies
Critical Race Theory
Intersectionality
Black Masculinity
Whiteness
Education
Youth Studies
Qualitative Methods
- Cotton, C., Melendez-Mayfield, A., Zamora Castro, A., & Flores-González, N. (2024). “Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys:” Views of Monogamy and Non-Monogamy Among Arizona Youth. American Behavioral Scientist, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241284270
- Paik, L., Melendez-Mayfield, A., 2024. “Public Opinion Survey about Alternatives to Financial Restitution”
- “We Are Not Them”; Youth Attitudes & Experiences with Familial Incarceration, Teacher Educators of Children with Behavioral Disorders Conference, Tempe, AZ, November 2022 (with Vera Lopez, Heather Griller Clark, Hayley Worrell, Annee Grayson, Erin Clancy, Marcella Alexander, and Haleigh Branstetter)
- “We Are Not Them”; Youth Attitudes & Experiences with Familial Incarceration, National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference, Virtual, April 2023 (with Vera Lopez, Heather Griller Clark, Erin Clancy, Marcella Alexander, and Haleigh Branstetter)
- Black Queer Experiences in Lower and Higher Educational Settings, 53rd Annual Conference of The Association of Black Sociologists, Philadelphia, PA, August 2023
- Introduction to Interviewing (SOC 391 Applied Research Methods), Arizona State University, Tempe, September 2023
- Unpacking Social Realities: Experiences with Discrimination Among LGBTQ+ Individuals, Institute for Social Science Research in the Graduate Student Poster Competition, Arizona State University, November 2023
- Qualitative Methods (JUS 301 Research in Justice Studies), Arizona State University, Tempe, January 2024
- Unpacking Social Realities: Experiences with Discrimination Among LGBTQ+ Individuals, 95th Annual Pacific Sociological Association Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2024
- Black Queer Experiences in Lower and Higher Educational Settings, Arizona State University Institute for Social Science Research Poster Competition, Tempe, AZ, April 2024
- Living in The Margins: Afro-LatinX Queer Women's Educational Experiences in Predominantly White Institutions, Spring 2024 ASU Hispanic Research Center (HRC) Graduate Student Poster Competition, Tempe, AZ, April 2024
- Black Queer Experiences in Lower and Higher Educational Settings, 119th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Montreal, CA, August 2024
- Navigating Pride Festivals While Black and Queer: Arizona Pride Festivals 2023-2024, 54th Annual Conference of the Association of Black Sociologists, Montreal, CA, August 2024
- Introduction to Interviewing (SOC 391 Applied Research Methods), Arizona State University, Tempe, September 2024
- “Being Black is a challenge… Being gay on top of that, got damn“: Black Queer Women's Experiences in Lower and Higher Educational Settings, 2025 Hawaii International Conference on Education, January 2025
- Navigating Pride Festivals While Black and Queer: Arizona Pride Festivals 2023-2024, 120th Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 2025
American Sociological Association