College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences > Academics > Women's and Gender Studies > Faculty > Beth Catlett

Beth Catlett

  • bcatlett@depaul.edu
  • Associate Professor & Director, Beck Research Initiative for Women, Gender, & Community
  • Ph.D.
  • Women's and Gender Studies
  • Faculty
  • Phone: 773-325-4758
  • Schmitt Academic Center (SAC), Fifth Floor

Courses Taught

  • WGS 265 Yoga and Feminist Thought: Embodying Individual and Collective Transformation
  • WGS 303 Women & Violence
  • WGS 306/406 Gender & Families
  • WGS 387 Teen Violence Prevention
  • WGS 391 Methods & Scholarship in Women's & Gender Studies
  • WGS 395 Women's Studies Advanced Seminar 
  • SOC 105 Social Problems
  • SOC 209 Sociology of Women
  • SOC 306 Sociology of the Family

Areas of Interest

  • The Use of Contemplative Practices to Animate Community Well-Being and Social Change
  • Diversity in Families
  • Violence in Intimate Relationships
  • Violence Prevention and Youth Leadership

Select Scholarly Contributions

  • "Mindful Community-Based Service Learning: A Gateway to Compassion and Social Justice", with H. Damon-Moore, M. Antwan, and H. Flett
  • “Reflections of privilege, oppression, and possibilities in times of radical social change" , with A. Proweller
  • “Feminist activism and YPAR: Privileged girls interrupt rape culture", with A. Proweller and S. Crabtree-Nelson
  • “Anti-racism education and training for adult mentors who work with BIPOC adolescents", with B. Sanchez, A. Anderson, and T. Weiston-Serdan
  • “Mindfulness practices as a transformative approach for college student mentors in confronting their power and privilege", with B. Sanchez and L. Monjaras-Gaytan
  • "Integrating contemplative practices and feminist pedagogy in community -based service learning to advance social justice"
  • “Disruptive practices: Resisting violence through feminist community based service learning"
  • “Yoga as embodied feminist praxis: Trauma, healing, and community-based responses to violence", with M. Bunn
  • "Men's Gendered Constructions of Intimate Partner Violence as Predictors of Court-Mandated Batterer Treatment Drop Out", with M. Toews and V. Walilko.
  • "Participatory Action Research and the University Classroom" 
  • "Critiquing the Case for Marriage Promotion: How the Promarriage Movement Misrepresents Domestic Violence Research" 

On-going Projects

Dr. Catlett is the Director of the Beck Research Initiative for Women, Gender, and Community.

  • Mindfulness Practices to Enhance Student Learning, Critical Consciousness, and Well Being​
  • Take Back the Halls: Ending Violence, Creating Change