Fine, M. Teaching Through Race. Multicultural Summit on Race and Culture. Santa Barbara, CA. 2001.

Fine, M. Qualitative Methods Keynote: International Conference of Psychology. Havana, Cuba. 1999.

Fine, M. Reflecting on Whiteness. American Psychological Association meeting on Race & Racism, Newport Beach, CA, 1999.

Fine, M., Jordan, C., & Sherman, D. Diversity hurts. Keynote National Conference for Teachers of English, mid-year meeting, Chicago, 1999.

Fine, M. Racial justice, equity & excellence. Syracuse University, Ganders Distinguished Lecture Series, 1998.

Fine, M. & Powell, L. Race, justice & democracy in American education. American Psychological Association, San Francisco, 1998

Fine, M. Construction sites: Making race and gender in the academy. Princeton University Women & Psychology Seminar Series, 1998.

Fine, M. Why do all the white students sit together? American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.

Fine, M. Adolescence and racial justice: Rethinking a social psychology of spaces. Keynote, Society for Research on Adolescence, San Diego, 1998.

Fine, M. Standards & equity. Keynote for The Education Trust. Washington, D.C., 1997.

Fine, M. Rethinking imagination, activism and public education. Keynote for the Releasing Imagination Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.

Fine, M. "Producing whiteness." Keynote for the Cross Cultural Roundtable at Teachers College, Columbia University, 1995.

Fine, M. "At the intersections of race and gender". Keynote for the Cross-cultural roundtable at Teacher College, Columbia University. New York, New York 1994.

Fine, M. "The cultures of schools and the psychologies of adolescent girls". Keynote, Temple
University Conference on Girls and Women. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993.

Fine, M. "Rethinking the Politics of School Reform". NCREST Annual Conference on
Restructuring. New York, New York, 1993.

Fine, M. Theorizing "Self" and "Others". Ethnography Forum. University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1993.

Fine, M. "Democratizing Choice". Economic Policy Institute Conference. Can Choice Reform
American Educators? Washington, DC, 1992.

Fine, M. "Gender, silencing and difference: Rethinking institutions of schools and heterosexuality". American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, 1992.

Fine, M. "Urban restructuring as a democratic reform". Alumni Meeting, University of Buffalo,
Graduate School of Education. Buffalo, New York, 1992.

Fine, M. "A look at teaching". National Educational Activists Conference. Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, 1992.

Fine, M. "Restructuring in Philadelphia public schools". Invited speaker, American Research
Institute's Conference on "At Risk" Youth. Palo Alto, California, 1992.

Fine, M. "The uses and misuses of ethnography". Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992.

Fine, M. "Critical analysis of vouchers and privatization of public education". Philadelphia
Federation of Teachers Education Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992.

Fine, M. "Reflecting on community in urban secondary schools", NCREST Conference Building Learner Centered Schools. Teachers College, New York, 1992.

Fine, M. "Listening to their voices". National Council of Teachers of English Meetings.
Washington, DC, 1992.

Fine, M. "The borders of 'othering' in urban schools". American Anthropological Association
Meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 1992.

Fine, M. "Negotiating gender in adolescence". American Educational Studies Association.
Kansas City, 1992.

Fine, M. Politics of evaluation of public education reform. Invited keynote, Bruner Foundation.
New York, New York, 1992.

Fine, M. "A critical look at urban restructuring". Conference on Urban Restructuring, Invited
keynote, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1992.

Fine, M. "Inventing criteria for feminist community psychology". Community Psychology
Conference. Phoenix, Arizona, 1991.

Fine, M. Scholars seminar with Paolo Freire. Invited Discussant on Urban Education. Lesley
College, Boston, 1991.

Fine, M. and Smith, R. "The politics of urban restructuring". Brown University Distinguished
Seminars Series, 1991.

Fine, M. "Rethinking assessment in urban districts". American Federation of Teachers,
QUEST Conference. Washington, DC, 1991.

Fine, M. "School governance: reflections on Chicago school reform". American Educational
Researchers Association. Chicago, Illinois, 1991.

Fine, M. "The role of teachers in restructuring". Discussant. American Education Researchers
Association. Chicago, Illinois, 1991.

Fine, M. "The politics of multiculturalism in urban public schools". American Association of Higher Education. Atlanta, Georgia, 1991.

Brodkey, L. and Fine, M. "Reflections on Narrative: Presence of mind in the absence of body".
New England Symposia on Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences. Cambridge, Harvard
University, 1990.

Fine, M. Respondent. Fifteenth Annual Judicial Conference of the District of Columbia.
Washington, DC, 1990.

Blackman, J. and Fine, M. Values, science and policy. Co chair for panel presented at the
American Psychological Association Meetings. Boston, Massachusetts, 1990.

Fine, M. "Adolescents negotiating reproductive decisions." Paper presented at the American
Psychiatric Association Meetings. New York, New York, 1990.

Fine, M. "Transforming what seems so natural." Invited session, Inner city education: Problems, prospects and public policy options. Presented at the meetings of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC, 1990.

Fine, M. "Cultural studies and the community." Paper presented at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication. Chicago, Illinois, 1990.

Fine, M. "The body politics: Research on/for/despite disabilities." Invited address at the Swedish Institute on Research on Disabilities. Uppsala, Sweden, 1990.

Fine, M. "Whose epidemic? Teen pregnancy and the politics of problem construction." Panelists, New Jersey State Department of Education Conference on Teenage Pregnancy and Family Life Education, 1990.

Fine, M. "Rethinking restructuring in urban districts." Invited address at the Conference on Urban Education, Academy for the Professionalization of Teaching. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1990.

Fine, M. and Joffe, C. "Sexual rigidities." Paper presented at the Penn Mid Atlantic Seminar on
Feminist Theory. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1990.

Fine, M. Ventriloquy, voices and activism: Repositioning politics inside social research." Keynote address, Ethnography and Education Conference, Philadelphia, March, 1990. Paper also presented at the Laurie McDade Memorial Seminar, Miami University. Oxford, Ohio, February, 1990.

Fine, M. "Bein' wrapped too tight: Low income women dropping out of high school". Seminar on Adolescent Women and Social Development. Harvard University Graduate School of
Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989.

Fine, M. Moderator, Parental consent for abortion: Dilemmas for researchers and activists.
National Abortion Rights Action League Seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989.

Fine, M. "Whose families are being strengthened? Reflections on the current era of policy reform." Keynote address at Strengthening Family Relationships: A Key Piece of the Teenage Pregnancy Puzzle. Equality Center Conference on Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting. Baltimore, Maryland, 1989.

Fine, M. "Questions of community, exclusion and justice in public and private schooling." Respondent to Leon Botstein at Educating for a Just Society. Dwight Englewood School 100th Anniversary, New Jersey, 1989.

Fine, M. "When institutional exclusion structures adolescent identities: Analyses from the courtroom." Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association. Chicago, Illinois, 1989.

Fine, M. "The violence of exclusion: Public high schools and their urban dropouts." Paper presented at the American Psychological Association meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989.

Fine, M. "Homophobia, handicapism and sexism: The struggles continue for Sharon Kowalski." Discussant to Invited Session. American Psychological Association meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989.

Fine, M. Co Chair with Sandra Tangri. In the lives of women: Institutionalized violence and the politics of research. Panel at the American Psychological Association meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989.

Fine, M. and Morawski, J. "Feminist re visions: On Epistemologies" Paper presented at American Psychological Association meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989.

Fine, M. "Violence toward women and children: The problem policy gap." Discussant. American Psychological Association meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989.

Fine, M. "Transforming the 'natural' in public high schools." Presentation at The Quest Conference.American Federation of Teachers. Washington, DC, 1989.

Fine, M. "Critical reflections on feminist practice." Presentation to PATHS Seminar. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1989.

Fine, M. "The marginal hearts: Dropout prevention work in comprehensive high schools." Keynote. Focus on the Future '89: Issues for At Risk Youth. Pennsylvania Department of Education. Champion, Pennsylvania, 1989.

Fine, M. "The politics of sexuality." Keynote, Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
Boston, Massachusetts, 1989.

Fine, M. "Restructuring in Urban Districts." Keynote. American Federation of Teachers
Conference on Urban Restructuring. Miami, Florida, 1989.

Fine, M. "Feminism meets psychology." Paper presented at the National Women's Studies
Association. Towson, Maryland, 1989.

Fine, M. "Politics of state reform movements." Moderator. American Civil Liberties Union/NAACP Conference on Urban Minority Education. Chicago, Illinois, 1989.

Fine, M. "Strategies for the future: The politics of radial school restructuring." American Civil
Liberties Union/NAACP Conference on Urban, Minority Education. Chicago, Illinois, 1989.

Fine, M. "Dropping in and out of high schools: The marbling of race and gender." Paper presented at Harvard University Graduate School of Education Colloquia Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989.

Fine, M. "Low income families and neighborhoods: The public for public schools?" Paper presented at the Social Science Research Council Meeting on Communities and Neighborhoods. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989.

Fine, M. "Exclusion from a moral community: High school dropouts leaving urban schools." Paper presented at American Psychological Association meeting. Atlanta, Georgia, 1988.

Fine, M. "The family, schooling and urban communities: Who's served by the public sphere?" Holmes Group Roundtable. East Lansing, Michigan, 1988.

Fine, M. "Systemic school change: A comprehensive approach to dropping out" Keynote.
Massachusetts State Department of Education Conference on Restructuring. Worcester,
Massachusetts, 1988.

Fine, M. "The politics of research and activism in the study of violence against women." Keynote. Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Quebec City, Canada, 1988.

Fine, M. "Sex, the body and young, disabled women." Paper presented at the American
Educational Research Association Meeting. Special Interest Group on Women. New York, New
York, 1988.

Fine, M. "Through the lens of gender: Researchers and practitioners talk to each other." Paper
presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting. Special Interest Group on
Women, New York, New York, 1988.

Fine, M. "A socio political perspective on diversity research." Paper presented at Human Diversity: Toward a Psychology of Difference. University of Maryland, 1988.

Fine, M. "Young women dropouts: A critical analysis of race, class and gender." Keynote at Taking Action: State Strategies for At Rick Girls. National Association of State Boards of
Education. Alexandria, Virginia, 1988.

Fine, M. "The ways of violence as they silence women." Paper presented at the University of
Pennsylvania Conference on Campus Violence. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1988.

Fine, M. "The political promiscuity of the empowerment of women." Paper presented at the
American Anthropological Association meetings. Phoenix, Arizona, 1988.

Fine, M. "Sexuality and teenage pregnancy." Paper presented at the American Anthropological
Association meetings. Phoenix, Arizona, 1988.

Fine, M. "Reflections on ethnographic research with children." Discussant at the American
Anthropological Association meetings. Phoenix, Arizona, 1988.

Fine, M. "High school dropouts: Public and subjugated controversies." Paper presented at the
Rockefeller Symposium on Children At Risk in America. Rockefeller Archive Center. Mt. Kisco, New York, 1988.

Fine, M. and Zane, N. "Another look at female dropouts." Project on Equal Educational
Rights/NOW Legal Defense Fund National Conference on "At Risk" Female Adolescents.
Washington, DC, 1988.

Fine, M. and Gordon, S. "Feminist transformations of/despite psychology." Paper presented at
Feminist Transformations of the Social Sciences. Hamilton College, 1988.

Fine, M. "The social production of the high school dropout problem." Paper presented at the
University of Chicago, Urban Poverty Workshop/Sociology Department Seminar, 1988.

Fine, M. "What constitutes knowledge? Social science in the courtroom." Paper presented at the Constructing America Symposium. New York University Institute for the Humanities, 1988.

Fine, M. Comment on "At Risk Youth". Invited presentation at the Educators Forum. American
Council on Education, Harold Hodginson, moderator. Washington, DC, 1987.

Fine, M. "The politics of sex education." Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study
of Sex. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Fine, M. "Views on dropping out, and dropping in." Literacy Research Center. New York,
New York, New York, 1987

Fine, M. "When gender meets race, class, disability and sexual orientation: Public policy
implications." Unfinished Agenda: Women's Way Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Fine, M. "Framing the dropout picture, without framing the dropout." Paper presented at the
Educational Writers Association Annual Retreat. Wingspread Conference Center, Racine,
Wisconsin, October, 1987.

Fine, M. "Sexual meanings among urban teens and their teachers." Paper presented at American
Anthropological Association meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 1987.

Fine, M. "Critical reflections on education and adolescence." Discussant at American
Anthropological Association meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 1987.

Fine, M. "Politics of reproduction and disability." Discussant at American Anthropological
Association meetings. Chicago, Illinois, 1987.

Fine, M. "Who is 'at risk' when most drop out?" Paper presented at Dropped Out or Pushed Out: Our Children in Crisis conference. Project Schools. Newark, New Jersey, 1987.

Fine, M. "De institutionalizing educational inequality." Invited Paper at the Summer Institute for the Council of Chief State School Officers. Whitefish, Montana, 1987.

Fine, M. "Expert testimony in educational lawsuits: Contradictions in the discourses of the law and social psychology." Paper presented at the American Psychological Association meetings. New York, New York, 1987.

Fine, M. "The politics and paradoxes of interviewing women victims of male violence." Invited
address at Family Violence Research Conference. University of New Hampshire, 1987.

Fine, M. and Wade, J. "Critical views and strategies for evaluating domestic violence programs." Invited address at the Family Violence Research Conference for Practitioners and Policymakers. University of New Hampshire, 1987.

Fine, M. Chair, Critical theory in writing teaching and advocating through ethnography. Annual
Ethnography Forum. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Fine, M. and Asch, A. "Gender, disability and social psychological theory." Paper presented at
Women's Studies Seminar. Rhode Island College, 1987.

Fine, M. "Sexual harassment: The paradox of victimization and survivorship." Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Fine, M. "State of the science: Sex education." Invited presentation at the Society for the
Scientific Study of Sex. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Fine, M. Chair, Critical theory in education: Advocacy, methodology and pedagogy. Panel chaired at American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986.

Fine, M. "The politics of adolescent sexuality: The discourse of public educators." Papers
presented at the Association of Humanistic Sociologists. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986.

Fine, M. "A critique of current conceptions of victims' agency and resistance." Paper presented at the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, 1986.

Fine, M. Chair, SPSSI in the '50's: A decade of political dissent. Panel presented at the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, 1986.

Fine, M. "Comments on student as discoverer." Presentation at Prairie Fire: The First Nebraska
Symposium on Education. Governor's Conference. Lincoln, Nebraska, 1986

Fine, M. "If I'm successful...: Perspectives on feminist pedagogy." Paper presented at Beyond the Second Sex: Feminist Scholarship Conference. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1984.

Fine, M. "Community based alternatives to the law: Coping with rape." Paper presented at the Society of Applied Anthropology meetings. Toronto, Canada, 1984.

Fine, M. Critical perspectives on leadership and social change: An interdisciplinary analysis. Chair, Symposium at Meetings of the International Society for Political Psychology, Toronto, Canada, 1984.

Fine, M. "If I'm successful, you're swamped: Apologies from a faculty member to university
counselors." Keynote speech. Second Delaware Valley Counseling Conference, University
of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1984.

Fine, M. and Asch, A. Disability beyond stigma: Social interactions activism and politics.
Co chair, Symposium at the meetings of the American Psychological Association. Anaheim,
California, 1983.

Fine, M., Surrey, D., Vanderslice, V. and Barr, D. "Perceptions of injustice: The paradox of
options." Paper presented at International Society for Political Psychology. Oxford, England,
1983

Fine, M. "Social issues as curriculum: A pedagogy of politics". Conference on High
School/College Curriculum. Co Sponsored by New School for Social Research and La
Guardia College. New York, New York, 1983.

Fine, M. "Disabled women: Marginality, resistance and social constructions." Conference on Women's Scholarship, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1983.

Fine, M. and Asch, A. "Disabled women in the 1980's" and "Dialectics of the reproductive
rights and disability rights movements." Papers presented at Access to Equality: Disabled
Women and Education Conference. Invited participant. Baltimore, Maryland, 1982.

Fine, M. and Kidder L. "The justice of rights versus needs." Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology. Washington, DC, 1982.

Fine, M. Beyond victimization: A feminist analysis. Symposium Chair, at the meeting of the American Psychological Association. "The social construction of women victims." Paper presented. Washington, DC, 1982.

Fine, M. "Psychology of women: Time for self examination." Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC, 1982.

Fine, M. Scholars' review of the victimization literature. Chair, Symposium at the Summer
Session of the Delaware Valley Women's Studies Consortium. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982.

Fine, M. "Feminist politics and women's relationships". Paper presented at the Temple
University Women's Studies Philadelphia Mayor's Task Force on Women Conference.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982.

Fine, M. "Child care workers view youth: A further analysis of derogation." Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Researchers Association, New York, New York,
1982.

Fine, M., Rothbart, G. and Sudman, S. "Selection bias and the inclusion rule in multiplicity
sampling." American Association of Public Opinion Researchers. Hunt Valley, Maryland,
1982.

Fine, M. Academic women: Bonding and boundaries. Chair. Symposium at the West Chester State College Women's Studies and the Mid Atlantic National Women's Studies
Association, 1982.

Fine, M. and Asch, A. Disabled women: An integrated analysis. Presented as part of the
materials available at the Institute on Sexism/Sexuality. Florida International University, 1981.

Fine, M. and Rothbart G. "Sampling of rare populations." Paper presented at the meeting of
the Special National Workshops on Research Methodology and Criminal Justice Program
Evaluation. Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.

Fine, M. "Options to injustice: The battered woman." In J. Blackman Doron (Chair) Intimate Violence. Symposium presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York City, 1979. (Women's Educational Equity Communications Network, 1980: ERIC DOCUMENT, 1980).

Fine, M. and Laufer, R. "Social health and the Vietnam generation." Paper presented at the
meeting of the American Sociological Association. Boston, Massachusetts, 1979.

Fine, M., Rothbart, G. and Sudman, S. "On finding a needle in a haystack: Multiplicity
sampling procedures." In M. Hauck (Chair) Sampling Strategies for Hard to Find
Respondents. Symposium presented at the meeting of the American Association for Public
Opinion Research. Buck Hills, Pennsylvania, 1979.

Laufer, R., Fine, M. and Surrey, D. "Hidden wounds: The Vietnam generation." Paper
presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Canada, 1978.

Rothbart, G., Fine, M. and Laufer, R. "Finding and interviewing the Vietnam veteran." Paper presented at the meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Researchers.
Roanoke, Virginia, 1978.

Fine, M. and Saxe, L. "Evaluation research and psychology: Towards synthesis." In L. Saxe (Chair) Improving the Utilizability of Psychological Research Through Evaluation Research Strategies. Symposium presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada, 1978. (ERIC DOCUMENT, ED 169 414, September, 1979).

Fine, M. and Blackman, J. "The battered woman." Paper presented at the meeting of the
Second Annual Needs Assessment in Health and Human Services Conference. Louisville,
Kentucky, 1978.

Fine, M. "The battered woman: Examining the social context." In I. Frieze (Chair) Researching the Problems of Battered Women. Symposium presented at the meeting of the Association of Women in Psychology. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1987.

Saxe, L. and Fine, M. "The use of control groups in evaluation research." Paper presented at
the meeting of the Evaluation Research Society. Washington, DC, 1977.

Egendorf, A., Fine, M., Kadushin, C., Laufer, R., Rothbart, G. and Sloan, L. "Urban males of
the Vietnam generation." Paper presented at the meeting of the American Sociological
Association. Chicago, Illinois, 1977.

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