Carla Corroto

Carla Corroto

Phone
614-823-1434

Email
ccorroto@otterbein.edu

Office
Towers Hall 211

Professor
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Professor Carla Corroto earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University and a Master鈥檚 degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She teaches community and human service focused courses including Introduction(s) to Social Justice Studies and Sociology, the Sociology of Gender, and Sociology of Family Diversity. Taking advantage of her cross-disciplinary background, Corroto researches the intersection of gender, race, social class and disability in architecture and urban design. She employs critical ethnographic research methods in her qualitative work with attention to narrative structure and social justice outcomes. Corroto is an avid sports fan and is kind to animals.

Education

  • Ph.D., Sociology, The Ohio State University
  • M.Arch, Master of Architecture, The University of Illinois-Chicago
  • B.S., Architecture, The Ohio State University

    • Research, Creative, & Professional Work

  • Social Justice
  • Race and Gender
  • Social Class
  • Poverty and Wealth
  • Inequality
  • Kindness

    • Publications

  • Corroto, Carla (forthcoming). 鈥淲omen in the Man-Made City.鈥� On Inequality and Freedom. Lawrence M. Eppard and Henry A. Giroux (eds). London: Oxford University Press. pp.286-299.
  • Corroto, Carla. 2018. "Gender Socialization and Shopping: Data Collection in the Children鈥檚 Clothing, D茅cor, Greeting Cards, and Toy Aisles." TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. Published 11/12/2018.
  • Corroto, Carla & Richardson, Laurel. 2018. 鈥淚 Have Seen it All. At the Mall,鈥� Qualitative Inquiry. 24(9), pp. 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800418789451.
  • Corroto, Carla. 2016. 鈥淭he Path to Permission,鈥� and 鈥淯niform Authority,鈥� in Permission: Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. J. White (ed.) Amsterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 22; 30-33.
  • Corroto, Carla & Havenhand, Lucinda Kaukas. 2015. 鈥淐ollaborative Auto-ethnography: The Design and Architecture of Disability Studies,鈥� in Disability and Qualitative Inquiry: Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World. R. Berger & L.S. Lorenz (eds.) London: Ashgate Publishers, pp. 109-125.
  • Corroto, Carla. 2015. 鈥淎t the Threshold: The Myth of Social Justice in the Arts,鈥� in Art. Politics. Education. Journal. Published January 17. doi: http://www.apejournal.com/
  • Corroto, Carla. 2014. 鈥淲hen You Have a Hammer in Your Hand, Everything Looks Like a Nail: The Architecture of Service.鈥� in the Qualitative Research Journal. (14)2 pp. 103-118.
  • Corroto, Carla. 2013. 鈥淲hen Will Architects Speak Up for Women鈥檚 Rights?鈥� in Arch-Daily July 1. www.archdaily.com/395639/when-will-architects-speak-up-for-women-s-rights [Editors鈥� choice for best articles of 2013]
  • Corroto, Carla. 2013. 鈥淭he Architecture of Choice.鈥� Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture. Published July 18. http://www.archiparlour.org/the-architecture-of-choice-re-framing-feminism/
  • Berger, Ronald, Corroto, Carla, Flad, Jennifer, & Quinney, Richard. 2013. 鈥淣avigating the Terrain of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment: Patient Decision Making and Uncertainty.鈥� Studies in Symbolic Interaction. 40(1) pp. 363 鈥� 394.
  • Clarke, Paul Walker, & Corroto, Carla. 2012. 鈥淧ublic and Private Urban Space: A Primer on Demarcations, Transitions, Juxtapositions, and Conflict.鈥� TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. Published 5/22/12. [Among the ten most downloaded articles of 2012]
  • Corroto, Carla. 2012. 鈥漁pting Out of Architecture.鈥� Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture. Published April 11. http://www.archiparlour.org/
  • Corroto, Carla. 2011. 鈥淎 Postmodern Headache.鈥� Qualitative Inquiry. 17(9), pp. 854-863