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Quortne Hutchings
Assistant Professor of Higher Education
Norther Illinois University
Education/Degree:
1 Higher Education (Loyola University Chicago)
About
Quortne R. Hutchings (they, them) is a first-generation college graduate, proud Ronald E. McNair scholar alum, and assistant professor of higher education at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Hutchings has over nine years of higher education professional experience in academic advising, orientation, multicultural affairs, TRiO programs, and leadership development. Dr. Hutchings holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Loyola University Chicago, an M.Ed. in Education, Organization, and Leadership, with a concentration in Higher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and a B.A. in African and African-American Studies, minors in Sociology and Human Development & Family Studies from the Pennsylvania State University.
Current Work
Dr. Hutchings’s research primarily focuses on Black gay, bisexual, queer, and non-binary undergraduate and graduate students' academic and social experiences in higher education, student affairs professionals’ experiences in student and academic affairs, utilizing gender and sexuality studies, intersectionality, and critical qualitative methodologies (e.g., queer phenomenology, arts-based research, and collaborative autoethnography). Quortne’s current work utilizes podcasting as a method and analytic approach to exploring Black gay, bisexual, and queer men's experiences in men of color and Black male initiative (BMI) programs at higher education institutions. Their research has been published in the Journal of Autoethnography, International Journal of STEM Education, Journal of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education and Student Affairs, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Black gay, bisexual, queer, & non-binary students