Jeanine

Dr. Staples is a tenured, Full Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She's designed award-winning courses, published dozens of peer-reviewed articles in highly regarded journals, and presented her world-renowned research globally. Her first book, "The Revelations of Asher" (Peter Lang, 2016) has been called groundbreaking by sociocultural theorists world- wide. Staples was appointed to the Africana Research Center (2013) and the Social Science Research Consortium (2014) at Penn State. She was named Senior Fellow at Columbia University School of Law’s Center for Intersectionality & Social Policy, and Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of Rhode Island’s Harrington School of Communications (2017).

She was honored as the 2020 Mark Luchinsky Memorial Lecturer for social justice and is currently writing two books that are eagerly anticipated by the field, Extraordinary Pedagogies (Teachers College Press, 2024) and Extraordinary Literacies (Palgrave McMillian, 2025). Dr. Staples is also CEO of The Supreme Love Project (SLP), an emotional justice initiative she founded in 2015. SLP expounds upon Dr. Staples' trauma-informed theories and methodologies to actualize thriving among girls and women placed at risk in schools and society. To date, SLP content has been accessed, celebrated, and shared by more than 7.5 million people, worldwide.