JoAnna Boudreaux is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Sociology at the University of Memphis. Dr. Boudreaux holds a PhD. in Communication Studies, a Master of Arts in Sociology, and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies. Dr. Boudreaux is a native Memphian who earned her degrees at the University of Memphis while raising a family.

Currently, Dr. Boudreaux is teaching classes on Race and Ethnic Minorities, the Sociology of Gender, and the Sociology of the Family. She believes in creating classrooms founded on principles of community, critical thinking, and creativity.

Education

Ph.D., University of Memphis, 2022

Publications

Boudreaux, J. (In Production). Islam, Motherhood, and Discourses of Faith. Peter Lang Publishers.

Boudreaux, J. (2022). My father died this summer: An authethnographic reflection on our deadening lives and identites held captive. Journal of Autoethnography 3(3): 304-312.

Boudreaux, J. (2021). The case of Dina Tokio: Using symbolic convergence theory to understand the backlash.” Pp. 167-180 in Research perspectives on social media influencers and their followers (B. Watkins, Ed.). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Nordstrom, S.N., A. Amos, K. Barnes, T. Bilbeisi, J.A. Boudreaux, E. El-Oqlah, N.G. Aswad, R. Hamilton, T. Hernandez, C. Koehn, A. Sivers, T. Snowden, and H. Tabrizi. (2021). She embodied: A materialized collective. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology 11(2). 

Boudreaux, J. (2020). The radical spiritual motherhood of Amina Wadud: The call of a black woman Muslim scholar. Listening 55(3): 207-219.

Boudreaux, J. (2019). Drawing the complexity of Muslimah identity: A review of Sophia Rose Arjana's Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 8(4): 118-121.

Boudreaux, J. (2019). Naming 'obstetric violence:' Coercion, bully, and intimidation in non-evidence based childbirth interventions. Journal of Motherhood Studies 15(1): 1-4.