Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence and the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research interests include urban education; race, class, gender and sexual orientation identity construction; qualitative methodology; and popular culture as a site of education. Dr. Esposito helped create the college’s Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research in Education and her research has been published in several books and scholarly journals, including Qualitative Inquiry, Equity and Excellence in Education and Educational Studies.