Jerusha Conner

Professor of Education, Villanova University

About Me

Jerusha Conner is Professor of Education at Villanova University. Her research focuses on youth activism and organizing, student voice, and student engagement. She studies how youth become activists, what sustains them in this work, what they learn from their involvement, and how this learning in turn shapes their developmental journeys. Her projects also investigate the influence of student voice and youth activism on youths’ institutions, as they seek to make these contexts more inclusive, responsive, equitable, and accountable.

youth organizing; education policy; student voice

Selected Publications

Conner, J., Crawford, E., & Galioto, M. (2021). The mental health effects of student activism: Persisting despite psychological costs. Journal of Adolescent Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211006789

Conner, J. (2020). Cultivating participatory habits and civic responsibility: The far-reaching value of student voice. Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly, 7(1), 30-43. 

Conner, J. (2020). The New Student Activists. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rosen, S. & Conner, J. (2019). Negotiating power: How youth organizers recast the debate about school reform. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22286

Conner, J. & Rosen, M. (Eds.) (2016). Contemporary Youth Activism: Advancing Social Justice in the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 

Conner, J., Ebby-Rosin, R., & Brown*, A. S. (Eds.) (2015). Student Voice in American Educational Policy. A National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 114. New York: Teachers College RecordProjects