Megan Boler

Megan Boler

Portrait of Megan Boler

Megan Boler is Full Professor at the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, and earned her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (Routledge 1999); Democratic Dialogue in Education (Peter Lang 2004); Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press 2008); and DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media (eds. Ratto and Boler, MIT Press 2014). Funded by Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council for the last ten years, her previous research projects include: Rethinking Media Democracy and Citizenship, which examined the motivations of producers of web-based challenges to traditional news (2005-08); Social Media in the Hands of Young Citizens (2010-13) was a mixed-methods study of women participants experience in the Occupy Wall Street movement, including interviews with women in seven North American cities. Her web-based productions include the official study guide to the documentary The Corporation (dirs. Achbar and Abbott 2003), and the multimedia website Critical Media Literacy in Times of War. She teaches graduate courses in Media and Communications, Cultural Studies, and in Critical Theory and Feminist Philosophies.

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